After three months the calendars arrived.
The Original Russian Mir space station strap can be seen here….
Here is the strap on my Speedmaster…
Absolutely…
The search is finally over for the final piece to my 1968 Speedmaster/JB Champion set-up.
The missing piece you ask, or most likely not, the elusive H Shaped calendar as worn in conjunction by some astronauts with the JB Champion bracelets. I had aske…
Continue readingI posted this over in the Rolex forum but I thought there may be a little interest here as well since many of us have a bit of space geek in us.
My interest and research is confined to a very small sliver of space occupied by the watches worn by astro…
Continue readingIt has been a couple of years now but I remember Jim Ragan telling me "Never believe what you read on the internet," after asking him to sign March 1, 1965, on his case back for my collection as the Speedmaster Qualification date. Jim told m…
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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…
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…
