I'd be really interested to see how this affects the sales numbers of the women's watches.
But Omega already sells more than twice as many ladies watches than mens.
From chatting to the Omega Boutique in Tokyo airport years ago it's 4-1 ladies watches....
about every known brand ?
Thus far wrist watches of 10 different brands have been used in spaceflight and directly exposed to the harsh outer space environment.
And the X-33 has been used during an EVA - spacewalk (August 2022 ISS Expedition crew 67)
Really?! Maybe men are buying their wives watches as gifts...? I find it hard to believe the buyer are women who have an interest in watches, as it seems to be an almost-exclusively men's club.
We need an Omega watch ideally suited to (and commemorating the brave women and men who dedicate their lives to) creating spreadsheets and pivot tables, researching the legalities of wiretaps, doing forensic accounting, and handling the paperwork for official passports.
So, there is a photo of an X-33 outside the pressure suit? By EVA I mean directly exposed. Many other watches have been worn under the suit during EVA. The issue with the X-33 is the movement can not deal with the cold and us also not legible in the high radiation environment. That’s is well known.
But if there is a working X-33 in that environment I am all ears and eyes. These details are why it is not approved for EVA. It needs to be reliable.
The Speedmaster is the only true time tested icon they've got going ... watch collector's ... have no interest in buying/collecting Omega watches beyond the Speedmaster.
The Seamaster professional 300m in it's current iteration (1994-present) kind of looses it's magic and appeal when you realise it's entire existence and popularity was because of a big fat paycheck to the Bond franchise to give it some screen time in a film.
