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·I know that the Apollo XI case back is much rarer than the Flight Qualifed case back, but I'm just curious if anyone knows the approximate number of each that were produced. Thanks.
I know that the Apollo XI case back is much rarer than the Flight Qualifed case back, but I'm just curious if anyone knows the approximate number of each that were produced. Thanks.
I'm also curious about which came first, the one with the ApolloXI or the one without. I always thought the SW without AXI came first but recently saw a post that suggested the AXI was first, then they removed the AXI and made the SW for the world beyond Japan.
(I hope it's okay to add this question to your thread. If not, let me know and I'll delete it.)
The thread will be more interesting with photos.
Another question. Did Kubasov and Leonov wear the sw for apollo soyuz?
This post discusses Leonov and his watches.
https://omegaforums.net/threads/apollo-soyuz-register-1975.67384/page-6#post-1659084
That thread doesn't answer my question.
It didn't. The other thread led me to believe we won't know if he wore a SW. But maybe I'm wrong.
" [Leonov] used to talk a lot about his Flightmaster,...Didn't even think to ask him whether he wore it in space but I did have a conversation with him about why he didn't wear a Speedmaster - his view was that the Flightmaster was a "proper" pilot's watch as compared to the Speedmaster. But in the same breadth he said that they had all wanted to wear the same watch as the Americans in order to keep the same time, but that the powers above had decreed that they had to where a different one, hence the Flightmaster was the choice. He wore two watches, one with Moscow Time and one Houston, but I honestly don't know what they were."
Based on this, Leonov wasn't allowed to wear Speedmasters.
But according to pictures from SpeedyPhill, they wore two Speedmasters, one on each arm.
https://omegaforums.net/threads/under-a-sleeve-of-a-spacesuit.106986/#post-1401607
Note that MWO indicates that delivery of the "standard" SW version has been postponed due to NASA approval delay ; so we could think the "Apollo 11" version has been delivered "before" the first SW versions, due to the fact that there isn't the name "NASA" on it...