Original Speedmasters NASA Tested in 1964-65: What Happened

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50 years ago... on this date, NASA Speedmasters to NASM!
On April 27, 1976 the National Air & Space Museum in Washington D.C. received 60 out of 97 Omega Speedmaster chronographs delivered to NASA. Then and now, these Omega watches were considered a collection with significant artefact value!
Between April 1965 and December 1968, NASA received five deliveries of Omega Speedmaster chronographs, totalling 97 wrist watches. Taking the NASA tests survival Speedmaster in our count, the total becomes 100 Omega Speedmaster chronographs.
Between 1965 and 1975, 71 (2 of NASA tests included) of these 100, were used in actual spaceflight missions (23 different 105.003, 38 different 105.012 and 10 different 145.012).
MoonwatchUniverse celebrates this 50th anniversary with a full disclosure of the information available revealing the minute details of how NASA worked with the Omega Speedmaster chronographs, giving a pair to NASA Directors, indicating certain NASA numbers to half-a-dozen Speedies exclusively to be used in altitude chamber testing and preparing specific Speedies well in advance of upcoming spaceflight missions.
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2027 will mark " 70 years Omega Speedmaster ", so about time we once-and-for-all get the final numbers correct as there was always said NASA had 100 Speedmaster chronographs for the Gemini to Apollo-ASTP programs.
Was this 97 + 3 of the NASA tests? Or in fact only 99, as in NASA engineer James Ragan recollections he always mentioned 96 wrist chronographs in total through the Apollo program ?