No, it has to do with NASA.

 

I suspect it belongs to NASA

 

Yes, as written in the original article (here), when I found the watch, I was told by the former Omega curator that NASA is owner of these watches as they were just part of the official astronaut equipment. So everything had to be returned after each mission or test activities. Furrer clearly didn't do so and it ended up somewhere else in the end. NASA is known to have been chasing a number of these watches over the past few years, that's why we removed the official NASA serial number (below the product number) from the case back. I was surprised to see that Bonhams didn't do so as well, as these watches then can be easily traced by NASA.

RJ

 

Daft question, but I know they made radial dial 1040 prototypes as well as radial dial 1255 Speedsonic prototypes (including some examples which were sent to NASA as Alaska watches), did they make a production version of the radial dial Speedmaster? Spacefruit yours seems to be a T swiss T dial seperately which leads me to assume that the Speedmaster range also had a production/ commercial available radial dial option?

Cheers Tom

 

Can you figure out the face of people who traveled may be several hours, perhaps came the day before just for this lot and the same morning the lot is withdrawn...

 

Ooohhhh that useful to know, I like the radial dial designs, I feel a little project coming on

 

AH......................... maybe not then

 

By the way, do we know something about the final whereabouts of this watch? Has it been confiscated and is now with NASA? Or is it still privatly - well not owend but held?

 

It was reclaimed by the Federal Government.

Kate Lacey, and Paul Maudsley, who are part of the watch team at Phillips were joking about it... as they were part of the watch team at Bonhams, when representatives of the US government arrived to take the watch away.

 

I think the line was - we actually get to sell this one!

 

OMG just spit out my coffee laughing at this. Yes. New sh*t indeed and the dude abides

 

Thanks for the insights, Chris!