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·RR Auctions are selling two pieces of horological space history next week.
One is the flown Omega Speedmaster of Cosmonaut Nikolai Budarin. Used for 3 EVA's (and spending a total of 14 hours win the vacuum of space) during STS-71/TM-21, a joint mission between the United States and Russia, which included the first Shuttle-Mir docking. Quite a pedigree and it has an estimate to match of $50,000
Link to auction https://www.rrauction.com/preview_itemdetail.cfm?IN=8550
The next watch is another NASA issued Speedmaster X33 from the Space Flight America museum. These for me are the biggest sleepers out there, with very few in public, or ex astronauts hands. Only an estimated 115 of these Gen 1 watches were purchased and issued by NASA so they are very select. In combination with the fact that there were 156 flown astronaut missions that these watches were used for, makes them highly likely to be flown watches, and if not, most certainly used in training. I guess we will never know for certain but with an estimate of $3000 this is surely the potential bargain of the week?
Link to auction https://www.rrauction.com/preview_itemdetail.cfm?IN=8650
One is the flown Omega Speedmaster of Cosmonaut Nikolai Budarin. Used for 3 EVA's (and spending a total of 14 hours win the vacuum of space) during STS-71/TM-21, a joint mission between the United States and Russia, which included the first Shuttle-Mir docking. Quite a pedigree and it has an estimate to match of $50,000
Link to auction https://www.rrauction.com/preview_itemdetail.cfm?IN=8550
The next watch is another NASA issued Speedmaster X33 from the Space Flight America museum. These for me are the biggest sleepers out there, with very few in public, or ex astronauts hands. Only an estimated 115 of these Gen 1 watches were purchased and issued by NASA so they are very select. In combination with the fact that there were 156 flown astronaut missions that these watches were used for, makes them highly likely to be flown watches, and if not, most certainly used in training. I guess we will never know for certain but with an estimate of $3000 this is surely the potential bargain of the week?
Link to auction https://www.rrauction.com/preview_itemdetail.cfm?IN=8650
