{"id":43366,"date":"2018-09-07T09:11:29","date_gmt":"2018-09-07T08:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/?p=43366"},"modified":"2018-09-07T09:11:30","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T08:11:30","slug":"omega-speedmaster-special-hodinkee-edition-sells-out-in-seconds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/omega-speedmaster-special-hodinkee-edition-sells-out-in-seconds\/","title":{"rendered":"Omega Speedmaster special Hodinkee edition sells out in seconds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I moved quickly when Hodinkee and Omega sent me news that a limited edition Speedmaster was going on sale to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Hodinkee&#8217;s launch.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Not fast enough. Despite getting the press release 4 minutes before Hodinkee subscribers got news of the watch launch, I failed to click the buy button fast enough.<\/p>\n<p>More precisely, when I first went to Hodinkee there was one piece remaining, but by the time I got to checkout it was gone.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_41941\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41941\" style=\"width: 928px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/usa.watchpro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/omega-speedmaster-screen.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-41941 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/usa.watchpro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/omega-speedmaster-screen.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"928\" height=\"607\" title=\"\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-41941\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em><strong>Now you see it, now you don&#8217;t. WatchPro managed to add the Speedmaster to the online basket, but it is sold out before we reach the checkout.<\/strong><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/usa.watchpro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/omega-speedmaster-screen-sold-out.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-41940\" src=\"http:\/\/usa.watchpro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/omega-speedmaster-screen-sold-out.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"670\" height=\"499\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Only 500 of the Speedmaster Hodinkee 10th Anniversary limited edition were made, and the only other place to buy one now that Hodinkee has sold out is in Omega&#8217;s USA boutiques.<\/p>\n<p>If you can find one, they are priced at $6500.<\/p>\n<p>Hodinkee founder Ben Clymer helped to design the Speedmaster Day-Date, a watch he chose to work with Omega on as it is a model he once received as a gift from his grandfather and is remembered as the model that ignited his passion for watches.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/usa.watchpro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/OMEGA_SP_Hodinkee_PR_Watchcase2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-41942\" src=\"http:\/\/usa.watchpro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/OMEGA_SP_Hodinkee_PR_Watchcase2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1365\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only 500 of the Speedmaster Hodinkee 10th Anniversary limited edition were made, and the only other place to buy one now that Hodinkee has sold out is in Omega&#8217;s USA boutiques.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":43367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false},"categories":[7039,4,2],"tags":[4497,8253,398],"newspack_lstngs_evt":[],"newspack_lstngs_gen":[],"newspack_lstngs_mkt":[],"newspack_lstngs_plc":[],"acf":[],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"WATCHPRO","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43366"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43366"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_lstngs_evt","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_lstngs_evt?post=43366"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_lstngs_gen","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_lstngs_gen?post=43366"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_lstngs_mkt","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_lstngs_mkt?post=43366"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_lstngs_plc","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_lstngs_plc?post=43366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}