Omega Speedmaster is a line of chronograph wristwatches produced by Omega SA. While chronographs have existed since the late 1800s, Omega first introduced this line of chronographs in 1957. Since then, many different chronograph movements have been marketed under the Speedmaster name. Astronaut Walter Schirra was the first person to wear one in space in 1962 during his Mercury-Atlas 8 mission.[1] The manual winding Speedmaster[2] Professional or "Moonwatch" is the best-known and longest-produced; it was worn during the first American spacewalk as part of NASA's Gemini 4 mission, and was the first watch worn by an astronaut walking on the Moon during the Apollo 11 mission.[3][4][5] The Speedmaster Professional remains one of several watches qualified by NASA for spaceflight, and is still the only one so qualified for EVA.[6] The Speedmaster line also includes other models, including analog-digital and automatic mechanical watches.[7][8]
^Omega designs new timepiece to mark 50 years of watches in space Collect Space, 2012-03-09.
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^NELSON, A. A. (1993). "The Moon watch: a history of the Omega Speedmaster Professional". Bulletin of the National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors. 35 (282): 33–38.
^Aldrin, Buzz (2010). Magnificent Desolation. pp. 260–61. ISBN 978-0-307-46346-3.
^What Does the MoonSwatch Mean for the Moonwatch’s Legacy? Montres Publiques
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OmegaSpeedmaster is a line of chronograph wristwatches produced by Omega SA. While chronographs have existed since the late 1800s, Omega first introduced...
of March 2022) of the least expensive OmegaSpeedmaster Moonwatch. In 1892, Louis Brandt, the founder of Omega, manufactured the world's first minute...
the indexes and hands, which is the same lume as that used in the OmegaSpeedmaster. It has a quartz ETA G10.212 movement. Initial hype from the watch's...
potato starch. The Swatch x Omega collaboration debuted in 2022, with MoonSwatch, a collection of reimagined OmegaSpeedmaster Professional Moonwatches in...
He credited his lifelong passion for watches to his grandfather's OmegaSpeedmaster that he loved and his grandfather let him wear. Clymer used Google...
interested in mechanical watches when his grandfather gave him an OmegaSpeedmaster MK40. Clymer graduated from Brighton High School in 2001. He earned...
and precision under extreme temperature changes and vibrations. The OmegaSpeedmaster Professional was selected by NASA, the U.S. space agency, and it is...
completed the first solo flight she gifted her trainer with a watch, OmegaSpeedmaster, which had been given to the Shah by the Apollo 11 astronauts in 1969...
David Scott. All twelve men who walked on the Moon wore standard OmegaSpeedmaster watches that had been officially issued by NASA. Those watches are...
photographs being published worldwide. These also showed White wearing an OmegaSpeedmaster chronograph watch on his spacesuit sleeve, one of two makes which...
functions of a stopwatch and a standard watch. Mechanical chronograph OmegaSpeedmaster having two buttons (start/stop and reset) besides the crown Chronograph...
the Nell Newman Foundation and Newman's Own Foundation. Chronograph OmegaSpeedmaster Breitling Navitimer TAG Heuer Monaco Rolex Day-Date Rolex Datejust...
Scott wore the wristwatch on the third EVA, after his NASA-issued OmegaSpeedmaster lost its crystal. He sold the Bulova watch in 2015 for $1.625 million...
of spacewalks 2000–2014 List of spacewalks and moonwalks 1965–1999 OmegaSpeedmaster Suitport The Age of Pioneers, 2017 film about the first spacewalk...
range of automatic Omega Chronographs under calibre 1040, 1041 (the world's first chronometer chronograph used in the OmegaSpeedmaster 125) and 1045 as...
chocolate brown "tropical" dial". Phillips. Retrieved 2021-11-05. "Speedmaster-Affäre: Omega hat Strafanzeige eingereicht – doch es bleiben viele offene Fragen"...
devices deployed to the Moon have varied over the decades. Several OmegaSpeedmasters have been on the Moon, synched to Central Standard Time (CST). The...
ISBN 978-05216-5-270-4. Nelson, A. A. (1993). "The Moon Watch: a history of the OmegaSpeedmaster Professional". Bulletin of the National Association of Watch and Clock...
examples of Swiss contributions to space exploration and technology. OmegaSpeedmaster, worn by Buzz Aldrin on the Moon during the Apollo 11 mission, and...
moonwalks 1965–1999 List of spacewalks since 2015 Manned Maneuvering Unit OmegaSpeedmaster Simplified Aid For EVA Rescue Space suit Suitport Timeline of space...
bidder won the seat, bidding $28,000,000. On October 21, 2022, an OmegaSpeedmaster Professional chronograph commemorating the Apollo 11 Moon landing...
During Scott's second EVA, the crystal on his NASA standard issue OmegaSpeedmaster watch popped off, and, during the third EVA, he used a Bulova watch...
In 1932, Lemania, Omega and Tissot merged to form the SSIH group. Lemania produced movements for Omega, including for the Speedmaster that Buzz Aldrin...
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