![]() Somehow, the watch was supposed to be a collab piece, but that didn’t work out. And that the red and white checkered minute track was based on the famous rocket in the comic books “Destination Moon” and “Explorers on the Moon”.Īs a collector of comic books (I have all of the Tintin albums), I was very well aware of those and had, in fact, had both in my collection for many years. He explained that indeed it wasn’t a “Racing”, but had to do with Hergé’s Tintin character. But it looks so different from their previous racing dials, that I asked Omega’s Head of Product Development Jean-Claude Monachon what the deal was with this watch. Because of the red and white checkered minute track, they thought they could get away with that explanation. As said, Omega first introduced this watch as a “Racing”. Let’s have a closer look first at the background of the Omega Speedmaster Tintin. But what’s the exact deal with the Speedmaster Tintin? Why is it so popular all of a sudden, and why have prices gone berserk? With a retail price of €3,500 at the time, some dealers offered discounts that dropped the price of a Speedmaster Tintin under €3K. But, as it goes with watches that aren’t popular, some of them end up in places where the unsold stock is going. With only between 1,500 and 2,000 of them made (some people think it’s 1,954, due to the year of the Explorers on the Moon album from Hergé, but it’s not), you’d imagine they would have sold out after a year or so. At the start, in 2013, the watch was quite frankly, unpopular.Įven in 2016, when Michael Stockton published the story on getting his Speedmaster Tintin, the watch was relatively unpopular. Only a few people picked up the story at first, mainly Speedmaster collectors and enthusiasts. The Omega Speedmaster Tintin 311.30.42.30.01.004 has since then become a very collectible piece. ![]() We even received a legal letter from Hergé’s “protectors” if we could remove it from our website ( here). We covered it in 2013 here and a larger article in 2016 here. You all know the story about the Speedmaster Tintin. Here on Fratello, the watch was immediately dubbed Speedmaster Tintin. Omega told us the red and white checkered minute track was a reference to the rocket of Tintin’s “Explorers on the Moon”. Survival and understanding of what is really at stake in the galaxy is the core of what Out There has to offer.Introduced in 2013 as a Speedmaster Professional Racing, but we soon found out it wasn’t a “Racing”, at all. You will not only meet intelligent species that won’t care about you, but also deal with ancient powers linked to your destiny and the fate of mankind itself. Space is an hostile place dangerous and mysterious adventures will mark each step of your travel. In Out There, you will have to survive, tinkering your ship with what you can gather drifting in the void, and spot garden planets to refill your oxygen supply. in a far and unknown place of the galaxy. You are an astronaut awaking from cryonics not in the solar system, but. Out There is an award-winning space exploration game blending roguelike, resource management and interactive fiction. “For those looking to explore the vast reaches of space in a narrative based storyline.” “This is Gravity in which everything usually goes as wrong as it supposed to, yet somehow the astronaut remains calm, even lyrical, throughout” Hopping from one system to the next not knowing what will be discovered was a constant thrill.” ![]() ![]() “I thoroughly enjoyed Out There: Omega Edition.
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