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 […] Visit Car Racing Legends And The Omega Speedmaster to read the full article.
Great article, nice to read about the history and real purpose of the Speedmaster. This moonwatch thing is getting rather overplayed.
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.
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.
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