Seamaster & Speedmaster … hey even an Australian Unit:
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Eugene Hackman passed away (1930-2025)
2025, February 26 American actor Eugene A. Hackman passed away…
We’ll remember him for amazing roles in detective movies but also for the 1969 SciFi movie “Marooned, the Sage of Ironman One !”
In that movie, Hackman was an astronaut, named Buzz Lloyd, who after five months in the space station, began to perform erratic and substandard so NASA decided to bring the crew home. The Command Module “Ironman One” thrusters failed and the crew was effectively marooned in orbit.
Not…
Continue readingWe’ll remember him for amazing roles in detective movies but also for the 1969 SciFi movie “Marooned, the Sage of Ironman One !”
In that movie, Hackman was an astronaut, named Buzz Lloyd, who after five months in the space station, began to perform erratic and substandard so NASA decided to bring the crew home. The Command Module “Ironman One” thrusters failed and the crew was effectively marooned in orbit.
Not…
Found: NASA astronaut Scott Carpenter’s Breitling Navitimer
Hodinkee:
https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/s…aute-the-first-swiss-wristwatch-worn-in-space
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At the time of US Navy Lt Scott Carpenter’s flight, NASA had not yet selected a watch to be worn by their astronauts so being a US Navy test pilot, Carpent…
1848… 2023 = 175 years Omega
Looking at the recent CK859 based on designs from the past, we wonder what Omega might come up with by next year?
Celebrating 175 years Omega ?
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https://www.fratellowatches.com/hands-on-omega-ck-859/
Continue readingTachymètre bezel… Omega Speedmaster in automotive world
Speedmaster fans know about the chronograph’s debut as the first wrist watch with the Tachymètre scale on the outside of the watch dial as Omega used a metal bezel to add the Tachymètre scale…
But let’s start a specific topic on the Omega Speedmaster in the automotive world as I couldn’t find one ? 👎
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Continue readingBut let’s start a specific topic on the Omega Speedmaster in the automotive world as I couldn’t find one ? 👎
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Omega DeVille wrist watches and NASA astronauts ?
Could these have been Omega DeVille watches ?
1968 October 23 : Donald Slayton (thin Omega De Ville)
2009, July 16 : Edwin Buzz Aldrin (thick Omega De Ville GMT chronograph)
(Photos: NASA/ M.Stroshane)
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Yet another wrist watch make used during ISS spacewalks
Again exciting news in our little esoteric research bubble on the subject of wrist watches worn in spaceflight…
As we just had to edit another topic title as PANERAI became the 8th wrist watch make used in outer space
https://omegaforums.net/threads/…
Astronauts and other spacefarers’ dress watches
Don’t know if besides the Omega Speedmaster, Fortis and Rolex topics, we’re allowed another astronaut topic ?
But those were tool watch topics 😁
e.g. https://omegaforums.net/threads/ast…d-not-just-speedmasters-say-it-isnt-so.21667/
Continue readingBut those were tool watch topics 😁
e.g. https://omegaforums.net/threads/ast…d-not-just-speedmasters-say-it-isnt-so.21667/
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Herewith two official 1964 NASA portraits in which Scott Carpenter and Donn Eisele wore rectangular dress watches.
Note Scott Carpenter even wore the tiny watch on a steel mesh Jacoby Bender…
Exact version of the First Omega In Space… October 1962
In analogy to our topic on the exact Speedmaster version used onboard Gemini IV ( 4 times 105.003-63 ), it’s October 2020 and I’m checking my Walter Schirra Sigma-7 photo folder…
In articles, blog postings and the third edition of Moonwatch Only, I always posted that Walter Schirra’s personal Omega Speedmaster might have been a CK2998-4 as it looks like it didn,’t have a lollipop chrono hand … a striking detail I took along when I commissioned this Walter Schirra…
Continue readingIn articles, blog postings and the third edition of Moonwatch Only, I always posted that Walter Schirra’s personal Omega Speedmaster might have been a CK2998-4 as it looks like it didn,’t have a lollipop chrono hand … a striking detail I took along when I commissioned this Walter Schirra…
55 years automatic chronographs… Self-winding wrist watches in spaceflight
The fascinating story & history of the development of the very first automatic chronographs in the late 1960s, with the Zenith "El Primero " announced on January 10, 1969 while in a race with Seiko and the Heuer-Hamilton-Breitling partner…
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