The year of 2017 was a pretty special year for Swiss Omega who had more than 170 new timepieces to launch. Most significant to me was the fact that a good number of their new watches were wonderful, providing interesting new variations or improvements on existing classics. 2017 is the 60th anniversary of the Speedmaster which debuted in 1957 and the show predictably shown a number of new models, embracing the Omega Speedmaster Racing Master Chronometer which has 10 different models. 
Omega previewed this replica watch prior to Baselworld 2017, and we covered it with the pre-final name of Omega Speedmaster Moonwatch Automatic Master Chronometer here. While the Speedmaster Racing focused on the motorsports origins of the Speedmaster, it is really a replacement of the now discontinued Omega Speedmaster Chronograph. This latter model is really the modern-era Speedmaster in a larger 44.25mm-wide case, and when it debuted more than five years ago was a big deal given that it contained the very impressive in-house-made Omega caliber 9300 automatic movement.
Omega replica Speedmaster Racing is another replica watch which is also discontinued recently. It was introduced in 2011. The 2017 Speedmaster Racing Master Chronometer replaces both it and the Speedmaster Chronograph. The “racing checker” outer scale on the dial periphery and use of bright, orange color on some models is where the “Racing” part of the name comes from.
When the case is still the same 44.25mm-wide size of the outgoing Speemaster Chronograph model, it wears a lot more comfortably owing to a number of refinements. On one hand, the case is 0.8mm thinner – due in most part to the more curved versus boxy look of the rear sapphire crystal. You also have new end-links for the bracelet, which point down versus straight out, permitting the watch to fit much more comfortably when worn. As I mentioned, the case shape changes are subtle, but the Omega Speedmaster Racing Master Chronometer is a lot more comfortable to wear than the other 44.25mm-wide Speedmaster models that came before it.
More design upgrades can be shown on the dial and bezel. The subdials are a bit bigger, which is a nice point; the lume-filled, applied hour markers now have slightly tapered ends; the date window is neat-looking and tapered; and the bezels use interesting new production techniques. This is overall the best-looking modern Speedmaster, consisting of handsome, beautiful appearance and stellar technology both inside and out.
I mentioned that the bezels are new. There are two models of bezel materials, being either ceramic or silicon nitride (depending on the color, as the latter material is used for the gray bezels). Omega then uses the Liquid metal, Ceragold, or enamel for the tachymeter bezel markers and text. The one interested me most is the black ceramic bezels with the white enamel. The latter is used for the bezel text on the white-dialed versions, given the bright, everlasting color required for the white text to match the dial. As far as I am concerned, these are the most popular dials (white with black-ring subdials), and as to Omega, each of the baked enamel bezels has five layers of enamel.
Compared to the retail prices of the previous generation Speedmaster Chronograph watches with the 9300 movements, these new fake Omega Speedmaster Racing Master Chronometer models with the 9900 family movements are priced about 10-15% less, which is about $600 – $800 below the older generation models. This stands for a normal pricing decrease we are looking in the industry – which is a nice thing. Thus, the Omega Speedmaster Racing Master Chronometer replica watches are actually expensive, however the prices seem much fairer than I remember.