This new Speed Tuesday is a follow up from last year’s limited edition Speedy Tuesday, this year being a tribute to the original Ultraman Speedmaster. This release is named ‘Ultraman’ thanks to the Japanese tv-show “The Return Of Ultraman,” which aired in 1971. Ultraman was a very popular tv-show character and well know throughout 1965-1971. Ultraman was an alien who inhabited a human body and fought monsters trying to take over the Earth. Ultraman had the ability that could size-up and turn into a gigantic super-powered Ultraman but could only fight for 3-minutes before his energy would be deplete.
This is in fact the second partnership between Omega and Fratellowatches as their first collaboration was the first Speedy Tuesday Speedmaster launched back in 2017. In addition to the orange center seconds hand, the new Ultraman also has orange hour markers, and a black and orange tachymetric bezel; the word “Speedmaster” is in orange as well. To pay tribute to the Japanese tv-show, there is a hidden silhouette of Ultraman in the small seconds subdial at 9:00.
