Anyone bidding on Gordon’s Speedmaster?

@Spacefruit
You've got the wrong "Gordon" there... Your photo shows Mercury 7 astronaut Leroy "Gordo" Cooper who flew on Faith-7 (May 1963) and later on Gemini V (August 1965). NASA astronaut Leroy "Gordo" Cooper was a USAF Major, while the Gold "Apollo 11 tribute" Speedmaster on auction here belonged to Richard "Dick" Gordon, who flew on Gemini XI & Apollo 12 and was a US Navy aviator, a whole other breed 😉
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While NASA astronaut Leroy "Gordo" Cooper was mentioned, did You know he wore his personal Accutron Astronaut GMT pilot watch on both Faith-7 (May 1963) and on Gemini V (August 1965). In fact, on September 18, 1965, in Athens - Greece the Gemini V astronauts (Cooper & Conrad) meet the Voskhod II cosmonauts (Leonov & Belyayev) and Leroy Cooper gifted his (space-flown?) Accutron Astronaut tuning fork wrist watch to Soviet Major Pavel Belyayev, who wore it proudly until 1970 !
And that how an "electronic 214 movement" Accutron Astronaut tuning fork pilot watch got behind the Iron Curtain...
(Photo: TASS) #MoonwatchUniverse
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Allow me to elaborate a bit more on USAF Major NASA astronaut Leroy Gordon "Gordo" Cooper and his personal Omega Speedmaster CK2998.
Ten years ago, the Omega museum in Bienne got hold of "Gordo" Cooper's personal Omega Speedmaster CK2998, a chronograph space-flown during the May 1963 MA-9 "Faith-7" mission and compared with Cooper's personal Accutron Astronaut pilot watch. The mission lasted 34 hours and Cooper reported both watches worked fine.
In 1994, I wrote my first article on "wrist watches in space" and always assumed the personal Omega Speedmaster watches of Deke Slayton, Wally Schirra and Gordo Cooper were CK2998-4 but never got a 100% confirmation from Omega Bienne.
Here's a picture I took in 2016: Cooper's USAF pilot wings and other personal belongings
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The flown Speedmaster from 2011 is interesting as well… currently at just over $10,000.

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IMHO I have thus far not seen any photographs of Richard Francis "Dick" Gordon wearing the Gold Omega "Apollo 11 tribute" Speedmaster BA145.022-69, which was awarded to 36 astronauts in the Warwick hotel in Houston, in fact 23 astronauts (+ Apollo 1 posthumously) received it on November 25, 1969 but the Apollo 12 astronauts (Bean, Conrad and Gordon) were still in quarantine and got it later on in December 1969 !
However, Richard Francis "Dick" Gordon did wear his Gold Rolex Day Date very often and numeous photos can be sourced of him wearing it !
This 18K Gold Rolex Day Date on President bracelet was auctioned in 2023.
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Back to Leroy "Gordo" Cooper's personal space-flown Omega Speedmaster CK2998-4...
NASA photos show Cooper wearing this Speedmaster CK2998 since January 1963, using it onboard Faith-7 in May 1963 and later on during geological field training in April 1964. He did not wear this personal Speedmaster CK2998 on Gemini V as he received a NASA-issued Speedmaster 105.003 chronograph for that 8 days long mission!
We know for sure that Cooper often wore his Speedmaster chronographs (both his personal CK2998-4, his Gold "Apollo 11 tribute" n° 7 and the NASA-issued Speedmaster) at least until 1984 as he wore the 105.003 on the cover of Newsweek in 1984 ! #MoonwatchUniverse
(Photo: Newsweek)
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But enough now on the wrong "Gordon", which gave MoonwatchUniverse the opportunity to elaborate a bit on Leroy "Gordo" Cooper.
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US Navy Captain Richard Francis "Dick" Gordon was selected a NASA astronaut in Group 3 "The Fourteen" in October 1963.
Richard Gordon was first assigned a backup for the Gemini VIII mission (Armstrong & Scott) and flew in space on Gemini XI (September 1966), during which he made two EVAs spacewalks, wearing a NASA-issued Omega Speedmaster while Pete Conrad sat besides him wearing a NASA-issued Omega Speedmaster and his personal Glycine Airman automatic pilot watch, becoming the first automatic watch exposed to outer space.
Richard Gordon later flew as CMP Command Module Pilot on Apollo 12, staying in lunar orbit while Moonwalkers Bean & Conrad spent 32 hours on the lunar surface, collecting 34 kilograms of Moon rocks & lunar soil samples.
As Apollo 12 returned to Earth on November 24, 1969 and went into quarantine until December 10, 1969, the Apollo 12 astronauts were not present during the VIP Astronaut Appreciation dinner in the Warwick hotel Houston when the Gold "Apollo 11 tribute" BA145.022-69 Speedmaster chronographs were awarded.
In total 36 Gemini-Apollo astronauts were gifted such a Gold Omega "Apollo 11 tribute" Speedmaster chronograph and thus far MoonwatchUniverse has seen photos of 21 astronauts actually wearing their Gold Speedmaster afterwards...
Richard Gordon Gold Speedmaster was n° 20
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Indeed, spaceflown during ISS Expedition 27/28 in 2011 (Andrei Borisenko spent 164 days 5 hours in space on that ISS expedition crew)
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Thank You, Your Speedmaster knowledge remains unparalleled, I only know which astronaut/cosmonaut wore "what watch" in space 😉

Just decided to share my notes about the Gold "Apollo 11 tribute" Speedmaster BA 145.022-69 astronaut-worn-chronographs in the SWFG - Space Watches Facebook Group and here on OmegaForums.
Although I have Richard Francis Gordon listed as having worn the Gold n° 20 after receiving it, which means I have seen a photo of him doing so, I don't directly find a good photo in my MoonwatchUniverse files... getting old 👎
If interested, I can share a spreadsheet with information when the photos were taken of the NASA astronauts actually wearing their Gold "A11 tribute" Speedmaster (e.g. John Glenn wore his while visiting President Jimmy Carter on his boyhood farm in Plains - Georgia in 1976)
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I don’t think it will hit 1 mil. He commanded the module, but didn’t step on the moon

no idea on what it will make, but moon walkers add to value