Finally…The Russian Mir style strap is mine….

I always wanted to add the Soviet version of the Timely Calendar to my collection and I finally tracked a set down from the 70’s from behind the Iron Curtain. The seller told me he would throw in a free Mir space station era Speedmaster strap with the calendars as well. How could I pass that deal up?

After three months the calendars arrived.

The Original Russian Mir space station strap can be seen here….

Here is the strap on my Speedmaster…

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Today’s Episode of..In Search Of…The 3rd Evans Speedmaster

In honor of Speedy Tuesday…..

The upcoming Christie’s auction has really piqued my curiosity again in answering this question….

Did Ron Evans have and wear a 3rd Omega Speedmaster onboard Apollo 17, and if so, where is it now?

I believe Evans wore “his personal” Speedamaster during the Apollo 17 mission, and only later did the Christie’s Evans flown Speedmaster become his other “personal” watch.

It is this image below that really got me thinking about the…

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The Space Watch Nerd’s version of Where’s Waldo…

With waaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyy too much time on my hands and not enough astronaut and cosmonaut wrists to look at, I decided to go watch hunting onboard the ISS and Mir.🤦

The first place I thought to look would be the ISS and Mir crew quarters playing the space watch nerd version of Where’s Waldo, or maybe Where’s Watchdo?

I think the composition of the images with the stowed watches is interesting.

Nikolai Budarin onboard Mir with an X-33 hanging on the wall…

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