Gold MoonSwatch Mission to the Moon 1969: 32-Question Draw

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The questions are inane.

What would you eat on the way to the Moon?

Did you ever dream of going to the Moon?

etc etc

Can't remember the rest of them, it wasn't worth wasting my brain cells on them.
 
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I finally managed to get my ESTA application completed earlier this morning (after several site crashes). The 32 questions are a mix of Swatch history, spaceflight questions, and some random ones. I used Google to find most of the answers, and there is a time limit of 2 hours and 15 minutes to complete the 32 questions.
Once completed, you receive an authorisation code and are entered into a draw/lottery. If successful, you will be notified and given an invitation to purchase one of the 1,969 models available (with 48 hours to complete the purchase). You must also present ID (passport, etc.) at your chosen MoonSwatch store.
I'm not sure if you can enter multiple times or if it's a one-off entry
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I mean, aren't they giving you like $1100 worth of gold with that? Got a feeling the drawing/etc is to try to find people who aren't just going to melt out the gold to get 2x their money back.
 
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I’ve entered (applied?). Really hoping they pick me, but haven’t got a clue what they’re looking for beyond honesty and correct trivia question answers. I have a Mission to Mercury, but it would most certainly be superseded by this if I get selected. Let’s see!
 
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My humble collection only has stainless steel / titanium / bronze watches as I don't want to apply my limited watch funds on watches with precious metals and rather apply funds to complications or for (now-pricey) vintage pieces, etc. This MoonSwatch edition would then be the exception to my rule and I do like the John-Player special color scheme 😎

So I answered the 32 questions & ~36hrs later, received the confirmation email.

Some questions were "tricky", to say the least; one of the earliest questions was something like this multiple-choice... "Would you gift a President a desk clock" and you have to select Y/N

Others had a very obvious answer; "Will you sell your 1969 MoonSwatch?" Y/N ... 🙄

If it's true that all questions must be answerd correctly, I'm already out of the game as I answered question #32*, "Why does this application have 32 questions" with "I Honestly don't know..." 😅

As it's already been discussed online elsewhere, I will note here that some speculate there were 32 Astronauts in the Apollo space program, or there's a "32" in the Apollo 11 launch time (13:32 UTC) or perhaps there are 32 questions in the current* U.S. ESTA form... 🤷‍♂️
**when I last filled an ESTA out ~12yrs ago, there certainly weren't anywhere near 32 questions.
 
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I didn’t get an email, but assuming my entry was logged because they won’t let me try again. Good luck to everyone!
 
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Some questions were "tricky", to say the least; one of the earliest questions was something like this multiple-choice... "Would you gift a President a desk clock" and you have to select Y/N
I believe that this was a subtle jab at Rolex giving Trump a gold clock when they visited the White House to complain about the tariffs last year.
 
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I do like the John-Player special color scheme 😎
I quite like the black and gold, honestly. I hope Omega creates a DSotM in this style.
 
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I believe that this was a subtle jab at Rolex giving Trump a gold clock when they visited the White House to complain about the tariffs last year.
Oh, for sure! I answered "N" on that one as it was Rolex and not Omega (although they did once "try to" gift Nixon the Apollo 11 tribute gold Speedmaster for of course completely different circumstances.)
 
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The wording of some questions was strange, to say the least.

Would you gift a clock to a president? 🧐 🧐🧐

I answered it in Spanish, as this was the default language, and really wondered if they screwed up the translation on some of them, as they didn’t make any sense!
 
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So apparently there were over a million applicants... Looks like the TSA will be very busy this Summer 😅
 
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So apparently there were over a million applicants... Looks like the TSA will be very busy this Summer 😅
Worth mentioning, we had about 50-60K visits to very specific threads during the applications process:





Most related to the questions asked, it was a very busy few days