10 years MoonwatchUniverse... Bulk info release, podcasts & exhibition

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SpeedyPhill

·Nov 19, 2019

coming soon...
The story of US-USSR cooperation leading up to the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project ... and how Omega got into the (Soviet-) Russian Space program with the Speedmaster chronographs (Mark III, Flightmaster and Speedmaster 125)
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SpeedyPhill

·Jan 20, 2020

With some modesty but slightly excited & proud to announce two more book co-operations are underway
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SpeedyPhill

·Feb 20, 2020

46 years after the third & final Skylab space station crew returned to Earth, we can be 100% sure each of the Skylab-4 rookie astronauts took an extra personal wristwatch besides their NASA-issued Speedmaster aboard Skylab between November 1973 & February 1974...
Slide 120 added to our MoonwatchUniverse lecture... Gerald Carr & Movado Datron diving chronograph
Details of this powerpoint show that I have been editing it for 108 hours 8 minutes 😁
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SpeedyPhill

·Mar 2, 2020

With Baselworld 2020 postponed, I can't bring my planned "" 50 years Rolex-in-Space "" talk but luckily a corresponding well-illustrated article has been published in a well-known glossy magazine that's normally distributed during the Baselworld event...
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SpeedyPhill

·Apr 2, 2020

Glad I could give some input for the Omega Instagram Live event and on the SWFG - Space Watches Facebook Group I'm sharing my notes...
Pre-Internet nostalgia
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SpeedyPhill

·Apr 9, 2020

Proud, happy and thrilled with our tiny aviation & spaceflight background contributions...
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📖 more contributions soon...

 

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SpeedyPhill

·Apr 27, 2020

Our article " How the Omega watches got behind the Iron Curtain and into the Soviet-Russian space program " is going to print today !
Interesting to find out that the Russians often kept an Omega Speedmaster chronograph onboard a space station so it could be used by other colleagues... confirms what was said on the forum about cosmonaut Nikolai Budarin's auctioned watch but I have found a few earlier examples as well...

 

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SpeedyPhill

·Apr 27, 2020

MoonwatchUniverse notes... Tools-of-the-Trade... trying to keep track of all spaceflown-wristwatches
Example for the year 1988... Soviet-Russian side, 3 missions to the Mir space station that year.
note the TM-5 and TM-6 grey dial Poljot are not specified " 3133 " as it might have been grey dial " 31659 " Shturmanskie chronographs...
Hard to see exactly, even on the best color images in my private photo collection.
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SpeedyPhill

·May 8, 2020

Here it is, while most watch makes are sitting idle, MoonwatchUniverse goes full steam ahead...
Next year it will be 50 years since things were set in motion to get the Omega wristwatches in the Russian Space Program, here's a preview of the intro text for our article "" Time Peace - How the Omega watches got behind the Iron Curtain & into the Soviet-Russian Space Programma ""
(Photo: MoonwatchUniverse/NASA)
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Soon to come, our article on an Omega Seamaster flown in space during Expedition 56 on the International Space Station !

 

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SpeedyPhill

·Jun 15, 2020

Photographed my entire notebook and will be sharing everything in the Space Watches Facebook Group...
Going backwards from 2020 to the 1960s...
All spaceflight missions... all watches... as a spaceflight aficionado, great to see this accomplished with the help of watch enthusiasts 😉
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SpeedyPhill

·Oct 11, 2020

I'll bring half-a-dozen rarely seen astronaut-Speedmaster photos to celebrate 5 years MoonwatchUniverse in January 2021...
Otherwise enjoyed a few years here at the forum... wore a Speedmaster daily beater for 9151 days between July 1994 and July 2019
Ever since been wearing something else and I don't miss my Speedmaster at all...
Ex Tempore !
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SpeedyPhill

·Dec 9, 2020

In our relentless ( esoteric ) research about wristwatches used in aviation & during spaceflight missions, we often got the question what's the ratio between Omega-related photos and other makes ( Rolex, Fortis, Bulova, ...) photos.
Here's the MoonwatchUniverse answer...
The NASA-stickered folder contains about 500 Omega related photos, the smaller blue folder about 75 other wristwatch photos
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SpeedyPhill

·Dec 23, 2020

one last warm & invitation call to join us at the Space Watches Facebook Group ... and help in completing the database of wristwatches worn during all spaceflight missions...
MoonwatchUniverse, the blog which brings rarely seen aviation & spaceflight photographs with a wristwatch-wise whack 😉
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(Photo: MoonwatchUniverse's notes)

 

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SpeedyPhill

·Dec 30, 2020

Five years MoonwatchUniverse coming up... Most liked & noted photo was Chuck Yeager wearing his Rolex GMT-master pilot watch.
Most liked and noted Omega Speedmaster image was a scan of this 1967 advertisement...
Although these are drawings, it's interesting to see an Omega Speedmaster Professional without crown guards in this " Wrist computers for precisionists" 1967 Omega advertisement. (Source: Omega)
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SpeedyPhill

·May 21, 2021

Celebrating 5 years MoonwatchUniverse with a fifth Hodinkee contribution... check out their 8th HODINKEE magazine on June 1st, 2021
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Omegafanman

·May 23, 2021

SpeedyPhill

Five years MoonwatchUniverse coming up... Most liked & noted photo was Chuck Yeager wearing his Rolex GMT-master pilot watch.
Most liked and noted Omega Speedmaster image was a scan of this 1967 advertisement...
Although these are drawings, it's interesting to see an Omega Speedmaster Professional without crown guards in this " Wrist computers for precisionists" 1967 Omega advertisement. (Source: Omega)
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Had not seen this advert before - I might try to recreate it. Also good to hear about the new Hodinkee contribution - will be sure to check that out :0)

 

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SpeedyPhill

·Jun 1, 2021

Getting old... but Life is good... 📖 Hodinkee magazine N° 8 is here
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... 📖 https://www.hodinkee.com/magazine/snuck-into-space/

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Omegafanman

·Jun 2, 2021

SpeedyPhill

Getting old... but Life is good... 📖 Hodinkee magazine N° 8 is here
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... 📖 https://www.hodinkee.com/magazine/snuck-into-space/

Wow - Movado Datachron HS 360 secured under his space suit..... That does reset the history books for automatics in Space .. great story

 

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SpeedyPhill

·Jan 13, 2022

While we work on a series of articles on wristwatches worn during the Gemini era: Of Time and Space series
MoonwatchUniverse articles thus far include:

Time to Fly : Accutron and the dawn of the Space Age

Of Time and Space : part 1 Accutron Astronaut

Speedmaster for Space : 55 years First Omega In Space

Omega watches : the other “Hans” Hans Widmer

Time Peace : How Omega Watches got into the Soviet-Russian Space Programme

To Russia With Love : Omega Alaska II Project Speedmaster

Snuck Into Space : Jerry Carr's Skylab-4 Movado Datachron automatic chronograph

Shake, Rattle and Rolex : 50 years Rolex in Space

Marking Time For Cosmonauts : 25 years Fortis in Russian Space Programme

 

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pdxleaf

·Jan 14, 2022

SpeedyPhill

While we work on a series of articles on wristwatches worn during the Gemini era: Of Time and Space series
MoonwatchUniverse articles thus far include:

Of Time and Space : part 1 Accutron Astronaut


Snuck Into Space : Jerry Carr's Skylab-4 Movado Datachron automatic chronograph

thanks for your research and information sharing.

it's particularly interesting to me that two special flights introduced 4 watches, the Gemini V flight that included the Accutron Astronaut and the Glycine Airman, then the Skylab4 that included the Movado and Seiko.

Those two flights were pretty significant for watch geeks.