Neil Armstrong’s Omega Speedmaster Moonwatch Going Up For Auction

With 10 hours to go, the difference is huge;
Next bid on Armstrong 1.5 Million... Next bid on Mitchell 125 Thousand...

Neil Armstrong Gold n° 17:
https://www.rrauction.com/auctions/...old-1969-apollo-11-commemorative-watch/?cat=0

Edgar Mitchell Gold n° 1002:
https://www.rrauction.com/auctions/...-personal-collection-of-edgar-mitchell/?cat=0

Hammers at 1.7M USD

I thought it would go for more. I guess no fireworks bidding war!

On a side note…. Who could have did that to the case back??? Incompetent watchmaker? I find that unlikely with his world renowned status. Maybe he tried to work on it himself? Who knows…

Who makes that strap William? I know there are a few options out there but this one in particular looks more aged/subdued than most.

Yes you are correct and do own the original box. The Grissom gold speedie that was sold at RR auction had the identical cardboard box with a small stick with his name on it instead of Armstrong. Presumably that is how Omega identified them at the Hotel Warwick dinner and game them out. Also John Young sold his at Heritage in 2009 with the box.

The history of the box is that construction people were at Armstrongs home doing some work and he asked them to take some trash bags out with contained this box. One of the guys took the box and subsequently sold it on ebay. I expect you are the buyer. You might want to contact RR Auctions to have them find out it the buyer of the watch would be interested in purchasing the box from you in order to reunite it all.

The watches originally were in a metal omega box that was velvet lined (grissom photo in this thread) which was placed into a nice cardboard omega box, which was place in the regular card board box with a sticker with their name on it.

this bespoke box was then placed in an omega cardboard box that was placed in the cardboard box with the astronauts name sticker on it