Apollo-era space-flown Speedmaster chronographs definitive list

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I guess everyone has seen the listing on MoonwatchUniverse of flown wristwatches on NASA-missions from the Mercury-Atlas 8 in 1962, over Gemini & Apollo to Skylab and ASTP in 1975...
Getting my hands on the 3rd edition of Moonwatch Only book, I really expected a full & definitive listing of NASA-flown Speedmaster chronographs with their official NASA S/N numbers... as NASA/NASM/Omega heritage announced working on this to publish it on the NASA website.

Most Speedmaster fans have their own listing and I will start the topic with my low-data overview for Apollo only:
so no Speedmaster specifications nor NASA numbers for now

1967 Apollo 1

Gus Grissom , Edward White , Roger Chaffee L= Speedmaster
1968 Apollo 7
Walter Schirra L= Speedmaster
Donn Eisele L= Speedmaster R= Speedmaster
Walter Cunningham L= Speedmaster
1968 Apollo 8
Frank Borman L= Speedmaster
James Lovell R= Speedmaster
William Anders L= Speedmaster
1969 Apollo 9
Jim McDivitt , David Scott , Russell Schweickaert L= Speedmaster
1969 Apollo 10
Tom Stafford L= Speedmaster
John Young L= Speedmaster ( L underneath spacesuit Speedmaster on JB Champion )
Eugene Cernan L= Speedmaster ( L underneath spacesuit Speedmaster on JB Champion )
1969 Apollo 11
Neil Armstrong R= Speedmaster
Edwin Aldrin L= Speedmaster
Michael Collins R = Speedmaster
1969 Apollo 12
Pete Conrad L= Speedmaster
Alan Bean L= Speedmaster
Richard Gordon L= Speedmaster ( R underneath spacesuit Speedmaster on JB Champion )
1970 Apollo 13
James Lovell R= Speedmaster
Fred Haise L= Speedmaster
Jack Swigert L= Speedmaster ( L underneath spacesuit Rolex GMT-master 1675 Pepsi )
1971 Apollo 14
Alan Shepard L= Speedmaster
Edgar Mitchell L= Speedmaster ( L + R underneath spacesuit Rolex GMT-master 1675 + 1675/3 )
Stu Roosa L= Speedmaster ( L underneath spacesuit Rolex GMT-master 1675 Pepsi )
1971 Apollo 15
David Scott L= Speedmaster ( PPK contained Bulova 88510 chronograph worn on the Moon )
James Irwin L = Speedmaster
Alfred Worden L= Speedmaster
1972 Apollo 16
John Young L= Speedmaster
Charles Duke L= Speedmaster ( L underneath spacesuit Speedmaster )
Thomas Mattingly L= Speedmaster
1972 Apollo 17
Eugene Cernan L= Speedmaster ( L underneath spacesuit Speedmaster on JB Champion )
Harrison Schmitt L= Speedmaster
Ron Evans L= Speedmaster ( L underneath spacesuit personal Speedmaster 145.022 ) ( PPK contained Rolex GMT-master Pepsi 1675 carried to the Moon )



 
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So the idea is to get for each Apollo space-flown Omega Speedmaster:
1. Omega specification
2. NASA serial number (engraved on the leftside of the caseback)
3. SEB number (engraved caseback)
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For example for the commander of the May 1969 Apollo 10 mission, this would be:
Thomas Stafford = 105.003-64 S/N 27 and SEB 12100039-001
 
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This is a very delicate topic and when contacting the protagonists about it, You'll run the risk of never again being addressed or contacted again 😁
Running the risk to become Persona non grata I'll publish my findings anyway, wondering why such a spaceflown Speedmaster list isn't published yet... it only takes a few days of "research"...
The risk of "newly" NASA-number engraved Speedies already exists as one third of the NASA Speedmasters are well-documented with photographs on the website of the Smithsonian NASM;
https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/chronograph-cernan-apollo-17
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See You on the other side...
 
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Flight Qualified by NASA in 1965 for all manned space missions
Indeed important enough to be engraved on the caseback of the new 2021 Omega Speedmaster... revealed January 5th, 2021
So I would like to see Omega bringing us the whole detailed story how this worked out towards distribution among the 55 Apollo-era NASA astronauts... or at least among the 20 Gemini-era astronauts !
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