The Omega Speedmaster is an iconic watch, and its aesthetic is well known. The black dial with contrasting white markings and hands. The distinctive case profile with those  twisted “lyre” lugs. That domed crystal rising above the inky, black tachymeter bezel.
Well, today we’re going to look at a Speedmaster that breaks out of this mold.
The Teutonic Speedmasters are a breed of their own?a collection of watches defined by their case shape, but in terms of dial and movement are pure Speedmaster. Intended for the German market, hence the playful “Teutonic” moniker, these watches were made in the early 1980s. It?s not quite clear what it was about that time and place that gave rise to such a wholesale change to a large chunk of the Speedmaster?s defining characteristics, but the result is interesting?a word I use deliberately.
Get ready to love it or hate it.

I fully expect the Teutonic to provoke a wide range of reactions. What is clearly a Speedmaster at its heart has an overall exterior feel so far removed that it creates a dichotomy that is resolved by an individual as either a harmonious and balanced relationship, or as an ugly mess.
There are five different watches that make up the Tuetonic range. (1) Black and (2) gray dials in a stainless steel case, (3) black and (4) two-tone dials in a two-tone case, and the (5) Mark V, which uses a slightly different case due to the thicker 1045 automatic caliber?Omega’s version of ...