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Hereby we share with you the Speedy Tuesday Event videos that we took on January 8th in Biel, Switzerland. Also, you will find some of the official photos that were taken during the day by Omegas photographer. Our own photos can be found in our previous How to wear itreport here.Speedy Tuesday Event VideosToday, we share with your three Speedy Tuesday Event videos that Bert Buijsrogge shot during the day. The first one below gives an overall?impression of the day in Biel. With about 45 guests, 6 of the Fratelli (Bert, Gerard, Balazs, Michael, Sky and RJ) and of course the Omega staff, we had a day where we not only celebrated the Speedmaster on a Speedy Tuesday, we also had the honour to be the first to see the new caliber 321 movement in the flesh. It is only today (22/1) that the press will get to see the new movement in the flesh during Omegas 125th-anniversary event in Biel (125 years of the brand name Omega, and thus Omega movement as the name was derived from their important caliber).Omegas Manufacture Visit and ForumAfter the welcome speeches (video below) and the lunch in the new Omega manufacture building (opened in November 2017) in Biel, one group went to have an exclusive tour to see the production and assembly floors. On these floors, you will also find a department where the testing and certification takes place by METAS for the Master Chronometer watches. The Speedmaster Professional doesnt (need) to be certified, of course, as these are produced and manufactured the same way it was decades ago. So although it is not anti-magnetic like the Master Chronometer models, or as water resistant as the new models, it definitely has its charm?to be produced in the old fashioned way.The other group joined a little forum hosted by Omega Brand Heritage Manager, Petros Protopapas, not an unknown name meanwhile among collectors and enthusiasts. It is during this talk where he also paid tribute to the late Chuck Maddox. The Speedy Tuesday Event videos also include his forum, see below.Fratellos Sky Sit joining her first Speedy Tuesday Event