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In this week's What's Selling Where, we bring you three interesting and relatively unappreciated sport watches of the 1960s: a Replica Omega Planet Ocean Speedmaster 105.012-66 with 321 movement in a case made by La Centrale Bo?tes of Bien, a Triton Spirotechnique diver, and a Heuer Camaro with the logo of spark plug producer Champion on the dial. These aren't your run-of-the-mill finds, but they could offer great value. Although a lot has been written about the Replica Omega De Ville movements, from the reference 2915-1 (circa 1957) to the reference 145.012-68 (circa 1968), there is one relatively unheralded Speedmaster among the group that I particularly find interesting: the 105.012-66 with a case made by La Centrale Bo?tes of Bien. While almost all Speedmasters with 321 movements had cases made by Huguenin Freres (with an HF logo engraved on the inside of the caseback) I can venture a guess that http://www.buyijoy.com/replica-omega-speedmaster.html was having some issue with getting cases from Huguenin Freres in circa 1966/1967, and that is when we saw reference 105.003-65 watches made by a different case manufacturer (with two Ls facing each other as the logo �C I am not sure what company that was) and the 105.012-66s made by La Centrale Bo?tes of Bien. While all 105.003-65 cases were not made by Huguenin Freres, there were 105.012-66 watches with cases made by both HF and CB. These CB Speedmasters are fairly uncommon, and you can differentiate them by three things: Omega Speedmaster 1966 CB 011.JPG 1. The CB inside of what looks like a tombstone on the inside of the caseback and the thinner numerals on the inside of the caseback (particularly when comparing the 105012-66 to the HF version). 2. The beveled lyre lugs (some call them twisted flat lugs). 3. The wider lume plots on the dial. The beveled lugs are hard to photograph and can only truly be appreciated in person. They give these watches a very different feel when compared to the Professionals. Unfortunately, a number of these CB Speedmasters have been polished over the years and as a result the bevel was lost and the lugs became more like the standard lyre lugs on the Speedmaster Professionals made by HF. Also, many of them have the most spectacular creamy lume you will ever see on a vintage watch. I am not sure why their dials seemed to have wider lume plots than other Speedmaster Professionals.