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Anyway, Apollo 13 will also be remembered for the first Rolex wrist watch flown to the Moon.
Interesting, this answered our question if Apollo 13 crew members Jack Swigert and Fred Haise also received a Gold "Apollo 11 tribute" Speedmaster as their names didn't appear on the original listing !
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Anyway, Apollo 13 will also be remembered for the first Rolex wrist watch flown to the Moon as Swigert wore his Rolex GMT-master 1675, which ended up in the Rolex museum (October 1970) as he received a Gold GMT-master in return for his spaceflown timepiece.
@BenzBhoy
In fact Jean Jacques Fiechter (Blancpain) & René Paul Jeanneret (Rolex) were both member of the Club Alpin Sous-Marin in Cannes France (1953)
Don't forget Rolex were the first to the deepest point in the Oceans: Challenger Deep in Western Pacific Ocean
January 23, 1960 with a Rolex on the outside of the Bathyscaphe "Trieste" at 11 Km depth in Earth's seabed hydrosphere valley Mariana Trench.
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@cwillis0001
Indeed, Apollo 13 CMP Jack Swigert wore a NASA-issued Omega Speedmaster 105.012-66 (NASA n° 69) over his space suit but also wore his personal Rolex GMT-master Pepsi 1675 pilot watch underneath the space suit. He was the first to wear a Rolex to the Moon, but it was later also done on Apollo 14 ( Mitchell and Roosa wore a GMT-master ) and on Apollo 17 ( Ron Evans carried a GMT-master in his PPK).
April 16, 1970 : Jack Swigert timed the 14 seconds LM DPS burn ( Lunar Module – Descent Propulsion System) using James Lovell’s Speedmaster as they knew it was the most recent serviced chronograph!
When talking about the first modern format dive watches, everyone seems to forget that the Zodiac Sea Wolf also came out in 1953.
That is new to me, Blancpain was first, so does that mean Rolex were 2nd or 3rd?
When talking about the first modern format dive watches, everyone seems to forget that the Zodiac Sea Wolf also came out in 1953.
Thank you!!! Both BP and Seawolf were at Basilworld in ‘53.
Does that mean that the Seawolf came out before the sub as well?
Yes, sub was ‘54
For some reason this makes me happy 😁. I think Zodiac is a hugely underrated brand. I'm probably going to add one to the collection soon. I think the quartz situation was particularly hard on them given the serial killer connotation of the word Zodiac at the time.
Any day I get to say “suck it Rolex” is a good day.
Ha Ha, the Rolex owners will be fuming…
Lots of us here who like to poke the bear. And to keep it thread topical, I don’t have a gold Speedmaster but do have a 16750- little brother to Swigert’s
