JB Champion bracelet

SpeedyPhill · Sep 25, 2019

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In several contributions it was stated that these were branded Komfit Forstner and medio 1963 became JB Champion after the Mercury program
See
https://www.watchbooksonly.com/omeg...ws/komfit-forstner-and-jb-champion-bracelets/
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Here's a 1964 Jacoby Bender Champion version on a between 1960s Topping scale models of the X-15 hypersonic research rocket-plane 👍
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SpeedyPhill · Sep 25, 2019

This year former Gemini IV & Apollo 9 astronaut, USAF Brig General James McDivitt celebrated his 90th birthday !
Here he's seen wearing a steel mesh bracelet on his NASA-issued Omega Speedmaster in 1969...
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SpeedyPhill · Sep 26, 2019

Komfit Forstner and JB Champion steel mesh bracelets:
https://www.watchbooksonly.com/omeg...ws/komfit-forstner-and-jb-champion-bracelets/

and this forum's repair guide
https://omegaforums.net/threads/jb-champion-repair-log-guide.91236/#post-1181294

Steel mesh JB Champion worn aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia in November 1982
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SpeedyPhill · Sep 26, 2019

55 years ago... astronaut Virgil "Gus" Grissom wearing an Accutron "Astronaut" tuning fork wristwatch on the well-known steel mesh bracelet:
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SpeedyPhill · Sep 27, 2019

Astronaut Thomas Stafford wearing a NASA-issued Speedmaster on a steel mesh JB Champion bracelet in his 1966 official gemini NASA portrait
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