NASA Speedmasters and inventory numbering??

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Calling on the OF Speedy historians:

In regards to Speedmasters circa 1969 - 1975, was NASA ever known to have marked one of the underside lugs with an inventory number?
 
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I have seen pictures of marked cases and case-backs.
But not the underside of a lug.
I only know a fraction of what others on here know though...
So I'm in for a more definitive answer.
 
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Publishing an article on the Omega deliveries to NASA so the Speedmaster chronographs could be issued to Gemini & Apollo program astronauts
 
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Publishing an article on the Omega deliveries to NASA so the Speedmaster chronographs could be issued to Gemini & Apollo program astronauts

Interesting. Can you elaborate?
 
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Lifting a tip of the veil, MoonwatchUniverse will not go into details here, but You have to know that between Oktober 1964 and June 1968, NASA received 4 batches of Omega Speedmaster chronographs totalling less than 100 watches...
By the time NASA had selected the " The Original 19 " in April 1966, the Space Agency had 30 astronauts on active flight status and only 20 chronographs... Full details in the article, which I won't discuss here as those kind of discussions made me close my Instagram account as even within the Omega team we still had to convince people that wristwatches could be worn underneath the space suit 👎
 
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...we still had to convince people that wristwatches could be worn underneath the space suit 👎

To me that's a no brainer. that is not only a possibility but a probability.

Thank you for that. Much appreciated. 👍👍