Car Racing Legends And The Omega Speedmaster

Robert-Jan · Jun 11, 2019

The watch that started its life as a car racer’s companion but quickly went on a very different route. There are some similarities between a spaceship and a race car. Both have crazy fuel consumption. Both go – very – fast. Often they are both built using state-of-the-art materials and designed by the best engineers […]

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dsio · Jun 11, 2019

While not a racer per se, Magnus Walker the Porsche nutter also rocks a Speedy Mk series

Ian_km · Jun 11, 2019

Nice read and great historic photos, thanks.

elmar2001 · Jun 11, 2019

Nice article. It is a Ferrari watch. 👍

palatine · Jun 11, 2019

walter rorhl has fancier feet than sammy davies jr.
proper legend of rallying

nordwulf · Jun 11, 2019

Great article, nice to read about the history and real purpose of the Speedmaster. This moonwatch thing is getting rather overplayed.

Vercingetorix · Jun 11, 2019

https://omegaforums.net/threads/moo...e-speedmasters-driving-racing-heritage.40812/

KAP · Jun 11, 2019

I look forward to the threads started by robert-jan; they lead to interesting reads. Thanks for another good article and the follow up posts with links.

Swissmister · Jun 11, 2019

nordwulf
Great article, nice to read about the history and real purpose of the Speedmaster. This moonwatch thing is getting rather overplayed.

Right? It's just like when Madonna wore her underwear on the outside in the 80s, and all those other women did the same thing.
:whipped:

rainking · Jun 11, 2019

I first became aware of and interested in the Speedmaster in 1996 directly because of Schumacher's association with it. Always made sense that a watch named Speedmaster was obviously inspired by racing. I don't even know how many years went by before I knew anything about the NASA connection LOL

whyboddau · Jun 13, 2019

Great info! Thanks for sharing!

pdxleaf · Apr 29, 2021

Car Racing Legends And The Omega Speedmaster

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