Colorful & Mysterious Fossil Speedways from 2003
/Long time Fossil fans will remember the Speedway line of Fossil watches. We’ve posted about our love for Speedways for many years now and some of the similarities to some of our favorite Defender DF watches. Today we present to you a Speedway mystery set from 2003.
Why is this set of pieces a mystery? Glad you asked – you’re always so inquisitive! Thank you.
Plain and simple: We can’t find any record of these anywhere.
Like anything else it is quite the juggle to work full-time at a J-O-B and yet manage the premier Fossil collectors’ site all from the same small office. Catalogs, newsletters, promotional materials and other mediums litter the office and over the years copious amounts of Speedway materials have been revealed and yet these 3 watches below are nowhere to be found. Not only is there no information on these watches, they are gorgeous works of art.
3 known colorways exist:
Black Speedway: FS-2973
Red Speedway: FS-2974
Blue Speedway: FS-2975
Could there be others?????
Enter now the collector thrill of the hunt. 2 of the 3 have been obtained and it wasn’t easy or quick.
The Red FS-2974 came from Germany on a classified site.
The Blue FS-2975 recently was listed on eBay and made its way from Italy to Cleveland.
The black colorway is a picture grabbed from Google Images many, many years ago from a watch forum in Germany. Given that the 3 watches are confirmed from Europe – it could be as simple as a European only release. We do have some European catalogs from that time period, keyword is some.
Both the FS-2974 & FS-2975 came with the stainless steel bracelet despite the Blue FS-2975 sporting a very well-worn leather Michael Kors strap. There are various pictures of the FS-2973 on Google Images and all photos picture the watch with a black leather 22mm strap.
A Miyota 0S10 quartz movement lives in each watch.
There you have it! A Speedway mystery that has stumped the experts for many years now.