Omega usually stages its Speedmaster launches. This one arrived with no press release, no social post and no embargoed coverage: reference 310.60.42.50.10.002 simply appeared in the Moonwatch Professional catalogue on omegawatches.com, priced at $51,600 and tagged as new. Fratello spotted the listing first on Instagram, and Gear Patrol filed the most complete account of what changed. The short version: one detail, aimed squarely at golf.
One change from the .001
The new reference is an evolution of the 310.60.42.50.10.001, the green-dial Moonshine gold Speedmaster that has sat in the catalogue for several years. On that watch the three sunken subdials share the dial's green. On the .002 they are coated in Moonshine gold instead, and each carries a radial azurage pattern that Omega says was inspired by the underside of a golf spike. That is the entire delta between the two references. Everything else carries over unchanged.
The rest of the specification
The case is 42mm in Moonshine gold, Omega's paler proprietary take on yellow gold, on a matching five-link bracelet whose clasp includes the current microadjustment system. It is a sapphire sandwich: domed crystal over the dial, another pane on the back showing the calibre 3861, the manual-winding co-axial chronograph movement certified as a Master Chronometer by METAS and resistant to magnetic fields of 15,000 gauss. The stepped dial is green PVD with a sun-brushed finish, the bezel ring is polished green ceramic with a Ceragold tachymeter scale, and the dot sits over ninety, as tradition requires.
Small numbers, in both directions
Gear Patrol weighed both references and found the new watch comes in at 222 grams against 223 for the .001, one gram lighter despite the added gold on the subdials, a discrepancy Omega has not explained. The price moves the other way: $51,600 for the .002 against $50,900 for the .001, a difference of $700 for the gold counters.
The Masters angle
Omega has spent years embedded in professional golf, and the timing invites a reading. The brand posted the earlier .001 on Instagram on 24 June to mark ambassador Wyndham Clark's US Open win, and another ambassador, Rory McIlroy, took his second consecutive Masters title earlier this year, as Gear Patrol notes in drawing the connection. Fratello named the dial colour Masters Green, and Gear Patrol ran with it. Omega itself has said nothing, which is consistent: the watch entered the catalogue the same way. For a five-figure gold Speedmaster, the silence appears to be the strategy. The listing carries Omega's exclusive-access purchase flow on the US site, at $51,600.
