Marstimer no longer on the Omega Website

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Steerpike999

·Jan 22, 2025

Just on the Omega website browsing and noticed that the Marstimer is no longer listed.
The Only Instrument Speedmaster listed is the X-33 Regatta.
Did I miss something? has it been discontinued?

 

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bsowers34

·Jan 22, 2025

Just now on USA site

 

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Steerpike999

·Jan 22, 2025

Interesting, maybe its just the Australian website.
Even a google search takes me to a page not found on Omega's site

 

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YY77

·Jan 22, 2025

Still available for purchase online in Spain and Switzerland

 

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bsowers34

·Jan 22, 2025

Thanks for reminding me of these, I just asked my OB about the Skywalker.

 

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Steerpike999

·Jan 22, 2025

This is the Instrument page on the Omega AU site

https://www.omegawatches.com/en-au/watches/speedmaster/instruments/catalog

 

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bsowers34

·Jan 22, 2025

And that one is not on the USA site.

 

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502 to right

·Jan 22, 2025

I'm glad to see it's still for sale. I was about the cancel my trip to Mars.

 

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Steerpike999

·Jan 22, 2025

Looks like it's just the Aus site.
🤪LOL

 

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Pastorbottle

·Jan 22, 2025

They've probably sold out of local stock, Maybe some new models coming, and it might be a little while until production starts.

 

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ErichPryde

·Jan 22, 2025

502 to right

I'm glad to see it's still for sale. I was about the cancel my trip to Mars.

Just an fyi, this watch does not have a 24:39 day or a 39.5 minute "Martian time-slip" after earth midnight, so it will not help you tell time accurately on the Martian surface if your stay is very long.

Sorry for the inconvenience!

 

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Pastorbottle

·Jan 22, 2025

ErichPryde

Just an fyi, this watch does not have a 24:39 day or a 39.5 minute "Martian time-slip" after earth midnight, so it will not help you tell time accurately on the Martian surface if your stay is very long.

Sorry for the inconvenience!

So the Mars Timer isn't going to be much use on Mars!, just as well I didn't rush out and buy one...........not that I ever wanted to go there in the 1st place, or am I'm ever likely to be accepted to go!

 

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ErichPryde

·Jan 22, 2025

Pastorbottle

So the Mars Timer isn't going to be much use on Mars!, just as well I didn't rush out and buy one...........not that I ever wanted to go there in the 1st place, or am I'm ever likely to be accepted to go!

They really should have built it with a Mars time function, a bit like a daylight savings function, that is toggleable. When toggled on the analog hands of the watch would stop at midnight, and the display would start counting from 00:00 to 39:40, and then start again normally.

It would be SUPER cool, even if totally worthless here on earth.

(Fun fact: Kim Stanley Robinson used a "Martian time-slip" (named after the Philip K. Dick book) to account for the difference between the Mars and Earth days in his Red/Blue/Green Mars series)

 

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hen

·Jan 23, 2025

Steerpike999

Looks like it's just the Aus site.
🤪LOL

Have the Aussies done Lord Elon wrong, since they don`t get to go to Mars and no Mars timers? 🤔

 

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paddymoran

·Jan 23, 2025

Elon has bought up all the Australian stock 😊

 

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Fallout Boy

·Jan 23, 2025

@hen Someone told me: Living in Australia is like living on Mars.... 😀

 

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Duracuir1

·Jan 23, 2025·Never Used A Kodak

Fallout Boy

@hen Someone told me: Living in Australia is like living on Mars.... 😀

I thought maybe that Australia is too far from Mars. But your reasoning is better.

 

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Fallout Boy

·Jan 23, 2025

I must admit: I own since several months some marsian WESTPAC-shares...they grow well down-under!

 

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thatone

·Jan 23, 2025

Nice looking watch but I think would be useless for a Mars trip.

I'd like to see Omega explore more of a luxury digital/quartz space; I do think they need to incorporate solar powered capabilities if they want a watch to go to Mars. I can't imagine astronauts wanting to easily change a watch battery a few times during their trip (even though obviously they could).

 

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marsman2020

·Fri. 8:18pm

ErichPryde

Just an fyi, this watch does not have a 24:39 day or a 39.5 minute "Martian time-slip" after earth midnight, so it will not help you tell time accurately on the Martian surface if your stay is very long.

Sorry for the inconvenience!

The Marstimer follows the conventions that robotic Mars surface missions back to Viking have followed. A Mars Solar day (sol) with 24 Mars hours, 60 Mars minutes, and 60 Mars seconds. It calculates Mars Coordinated time (the equivalent of UTC for Mars) as well as the local mean solar time at two longitudes on Mars (M1 and M2). It even keeps track of how many leap seconds have been added to UTC when doing this math, so as be accurate to the second. For mission elapsed Sols, it also tracks how many seconds had been added to UTC at the start of the mission in case the timekeeping organizations add more leap seconds. It's probably one of the most complete timekeeping solutions for Mars.

The mechanical watches that the mission operations team at JPL had made were similar, they had the frequency of the balance adjusted such that 24 hours on the watch = a martian Sol.

The 'time slip' is simply not how the missions to date have operated.

I enjoy my Marstimer a lot, because I can see what time it is where the Curiosity rover is, with hardware I worked on, still roving all these years later.