Everything You Need To Know About The New Speedmaster Moonwatch

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Looks pretty good. Price increase about 25% 🙁 No on-the-fly micro adjustment on the clasp 🙁 Milky ring on sapphire still clearly visible. I hope the new bracelet will work with Snoopy 3 😀

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Real shame that when changing the bracelet they have not made it more modern. Former know if there is a half link at least to help with sizing issues ?
 
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Nice article RJ.

I commend Omega for making the upgrade to the Speedmaster that has been long over due. Glad they stuck with "manned"" on the case back as well.

The only issue I would take with the watch is that I wish Omega would have added longer hour markers to the dial. When I see a teardrop end chronograph hand and a dial with short hour markers I immediately see a put together/franken watch. I understand a complete reproduction of a vintage Speedmaster was not the goal but with the addition of the chronograph hand and the DON bezel why stop at the dial.

All in all, nice work by Omega and their continued effort to move the ball forward.
 
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The only issue I would take with the watch is that I wish Omega would have added longer hour markers to the dial.
+1, a more slender appearance
 
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Without a doubt, women (and the odd dog) made significant, important, contributions to space exploration. The fact is though, back then, the people jumping about on the moon were blokes!😀

Well now you forgot him: "Ham the Chimp was a chimpanzee and the first hominid launched into space"
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Maybe it should say hominid space missions but I guess the chimp didn't have a Speedmaster...
 
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“Flight Qualified by NASA in 1965 for all manned space missions”. By adding "in 1965" Omega can get away with using that non-woke word "manned" in 2021 because it refers to an event 55 years ago.

I don’t think that is the needle they’re threading.

Instead, the word “manned” is widely defined as having a specific meaning wrt air/spacecraft “of having a human crew.”

A separate matter that the etymology of “manned” may relate back to when it was assumed air/spacecraft might only be crewed by men.

It’s funny who on this forum consistently HAS to chime in with quips anytime the prospect of renaming for equality is even remotely raised, with the offered quips undoubtedly trading on the notion of “why should anyone care, grow up” - the irony lost on them.
 
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Thanks RJ for a nice article. I was hoping for in addition:

Hesalite + AML,
Long hour markers,
Crown similar to that of the 321,
Luminova color similar to that of the 321.
 
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Just wanted to add again that it is a real disappointment that they did not upgrade to a ceramic bezel. Otherwise, love it.
Sedna and white gold versions also come with aluminium bezels. At minimum they should be ceramic.
 
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I’m sticking 1861 Old Skool 😉
 
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What specifically does "domed hands" mean?

The hands are slightly bent, following the shape of the dial.
 
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Sedna and white gold versions also come with aluminium bezels. At minimum they should be ceramic.
really don't get it the 50th anniversary golden moonshine has a ceramic bezel as well as the ed white.


but... the white gold is frikking awesome. pure wristpurn
 
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Well Alex, prescribed speech seems to be very popular these days mate. @Wryfox has tied this one down nice and tight with "personed"

Without a doubt, women (and the odd dog) made significant, important, contributions to space exploration. The fact is though, back then, the people jumping about on the moon were blokes!😀

Check out the "Mercury 13" and Jerrie Cobb in particular. She could fly as well as any of the original 7 and did as well if not better in the physical testing conducted by the same Lovelace.

There were only blokes on the moon because the blokes had control, not because they were the only ones who could do it. Johnson said if he let women do it then he'd have to let minorities too.

It doesn't take away the accomplishments of the men who first went into space to acknowledge the injustice done to the women who also qualified but were denied the opportunity to be astronauts.

NASA was a reflection of society that existed at the time, faults and all. Change is inevitable, growth is optional.
 
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NASA was a reflection of society that existed at the time, faults and all. Change is inevitable, growth is optional.

A decent piece on this here: They trained for space - but LBJ said no women

“When the Mercury 13 appealed to Vice President Lyndon Johnson, who might have helped their cause, his response was negative. He wrote on a drafted letter, ‘Let's stop this now.’

When they asked for support from astronaut John Glenn, he said, ‘Men go off and fight the wars and fly the planes, and women stay at home. It's a fact of our social order.’”
 
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Detailed article and it even (finally) comes in a smaller box 👍
The new Speedmaster 310.30.42.50.01.001
I can barely remember six figures ( 105.003 or 14060M )
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"Human" would have been cool to me because I'm a Star Trek fan.
 
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Check out the "Mercury 13" and Jerrie Cobb in particular. She could fly as well as any of the original 7 and did as well if not better ......
There were only blokes on the moon because the blokes had control, .......NASA was a reflection of society that existed at the time, faults and all.

Yes you make very valid points, but I'm not sure that forum members drawing attention to the motive behind a specific change indicates opposition to equality of opportunity.

I am very happy that my daughter or my grandaughters could now be astronauts, or anything else they choose. However, I grew up in London, England, in the 1950's and 1960's. We played on bomb sites and air raid shelters and we knew how vital the contribution of women was to the War effort. We got it 1st hand from our parents and grandparents

The changes had to come, and it was our, rock and roll, generation that kick started those changes. In many ways, the world has progressed since then and equality of opportunity is better for everyone. However, it doesn't benefit from trying to re-write history.😀
 
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“Flight Qualified by NASA in 1965 for all manned space missions”. By adding "in 1965" Omega can get away with using that non-woke word "manned" in 2021 because it refers to an event 55 years ago.

I suspect it has more to do with not being qualified by NASA than it does to changing to a gender-neutral word. It would seem rather petty and kinda ridiculous to add "in 1965" so that they could keep it "manned". The "in 1965" version in my opinion is worse than "human".
 
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Quote “but the fact is that the printed logo has been used for a long time as well (never used on the Moon, though)” End Quote
1f680.png Correct but printed logo Speedmasters were used several times in orbit around the Moon 1f680.png 1f633.png
 
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Yes you make very valid points, but I'm not sure that simply drawing attention to the motive behind a specific change indicates opposition to equality of opportunity.

I am very happy that my daughter or my grandaughters could now be astronauts, or anything else they choose. However, I grew up in London, England, in the 1950's and 1960's. We played on bomb sites and air raid shelters and we knew how vital the contribution of women was to the War effort. We got it 1st hand from our parents and grandparents

The changes had to come, and it was our, rock and roll, generation that kick started those changes. In many ways, the world has progressed since then and equality of opportunity is better for everyone. However, it doesn't benefit from trying to re-write history.😀

Thanks for your response. I had to quote you to keep it in context, that I wasn't just man-splaining out of thin air. I didn't mean to only address you but rather the general topic, which I also understand is a lot of tongue in check and meant in jest.

It's really not re-writing history. It's acknowledging history. The Mercury 13 existed, were a group of immensely talented and experienced women who trained for flight and space travel when they faced active opposition. Had they been given an opportunity to compete they very well may have been among the first moonwalkers. That's not rewriting history, just history.

The fact is these men did accomplish great and fantastic things. The living women from the original Mercury 13 were thrilled in the accomplishments of the men and did not begrudge them. They just wanted to join them.

We can't go back in time to change the past but we can at the minimum acknowledge that they were treated unfairly and change some of the thinking that made it possible to mistreat them in the first place.

I am including myself in this. I only recently learned about the Mercury 13 because my daughter gave me a book for Christmas about women astronauts. I had no idea. But now that I know, it's fυcking impressive what they did. And sad. One of the group committed suicide when she learned she wouldn't be allowed to fly into space.