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I really enjoyed diving deeper into the fact how different Omega wristwatches (Flightmaster, Speedmaster 125 and Speedmaster Mk III) got behind the Iron Curtain and into the early 1970s Soviet-Russian space program...
In fact the whole story reads like a novel as everything started with... Apollo 13 !
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We're now sure that each of the support and backup cosmonauts for the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project received an Omega 861 Speedmaster and some of those cosmonauts wore it on later missions (e.g. Yuri Romanenko on Soyuz 38).
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45 years ago...
Russian cosmonauts Valeri Kubasov and Vladimir Dzhanibekov wearing an 861 Omega Speedmaster during ASTP-training in Houston JSC
 
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17 Speedys for $1402!!!! INCREDIBLE.

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WTB, 1 time machine. PM @KstateSkier with details 馃榿
And $11,500 dollars (adjusted for inflation) so change from 10 couches
 
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Looking forward to all the details on this.... showing my ignorance did any Omega automatics make it into Space during the seventies (1040)?
 
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Next burning question we will be tackling... Why didn't Omega take all astronaut feedback into consideration ?
NASA Astronauts wanted a more practical bezel instead of the Tachym猫tre and Omega complied as a 60-minutes bezel was used on their 1972 Alaska II Project Speedmaster and red outer cases... never to use this practical bezel or its decimal counterpart again on later models ?
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coming soon... 馃嵖
 
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Finally, and honestly for me as by thunder strike ....
Half a century after NASA astronauts' feedback to the Omega design team, this is IMHO the most interesting & most exciting Speedmaster-wise development... the comeback of the practical " 60-minutes " bezel
https://www.radialproject.com/
 
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SpeedyPhill SpeedyPhill
Finally, and honestly for me as by thunder strike ....
Half a century after NASA astronauts' feedback to the Omega design team, this is IMHO the most interesting & most exciting Speedmaster-wise development... the comeback of the practical " 60-minutes " bezel
https://www.radialproject.com/
Cannot wait for mine ! I agree with you since the beginning the 60-minutes bezel is one of the most interesting design change of the Speedmaster, now waiting for the rebirth of the radial dial !!!
 
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bazderome bazderome
Cannot wait for mine ! I agree with you since the beginning the 60-minutes bezel is one of the most interesting design change of the Speedmaster, now waiting for the rebirth of the radial dial !!!

did u miss the speedytuesday 1 model ????
 
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did u miss the speedytuesday 1 model ????
The "real" radial dial is matte black... and with minor subtle changes, Omega could reproduce the 1972 model with 60-minutes bezel...
 
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did u miss the speedytuesday 1 model ????
I do have it but I'm talking about the all black Radial dial Alaska III model just like the one you have 馃槜
 
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Thx it would be even better if I had included the reference for each Speedmaster... but that's a task for Omega Heritage team to complete !
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anyone care to share his/hers notes on the subject
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Hallo Guys

here a version 2.0 of the NASA Speedmasters by NASA Assigned Numbers


Ciao, Gino

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bazderome
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ginobi ginobi
Hallo Guys

here a version 2.0 of the NASA Speedmasters by NASA Assigned Numbers


Ciao, Gino

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I believe Collins is a 145.012-68SP, not a -67
 
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I believe Collins is a 145.012-68SP, not a -67

May be, 26.552.xxx is the highest ser/numb. of the table (Schirra #19 apart) .

Only the ref on the back inside can clarify the question


Ciao, Gino
 
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ginobi ginobi
May be, 26.552.xxx is the highest ser/numb. of the table (Schirra #19 apart) .

Only the ref on the back inside can clarify the question


Ciao, Gino
Mine as been produced on the 22/11/1968 (so 14 earlier than Collins) and is a -68SP. I don't think they went back to -67 during the production
 
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Mine as been produced on the 22/11/1968 (so 14 earlier than Collins) and is a -68SP. I don't think they went back to -67 during the production

Agree, but I have seen a pair of 26.554.xxx, delivery date November and December 1968 , that inside the back show 145.012-67

Ciao, Gino
 
bazderome
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Ah could be then .. the mystery stays full !
Good work Gino by the way 馃憤
 
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The data on that list for the Schirra Gemini 6 watch is certainly not right, no 321 had a 29m serial AFAIK, certainly not a -64 Ed White. Maybe it got mixed up with a later watch, or the movement was later swapped. It wouldn't make sense for his Apollo 7 watch either. There are other major anomalies too, like several 145.012s on 20.5m serials. A lot of it doesn't add up.
 
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