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·My Tintin and I attended the Apollo 50th celebration at Space Center Houston yesterday. I went looking for the Omega display, but was unable to find it. Eventually I buttonholed a guy in a NASA (not Space Center) shirt, who turned out to be a NASA engineer and fellow Speedy wearer, and knew where the display was located. It was in the area that had been cordoned off for the "VIP Plus" guests, but he kindly escorted me through the barriers so I could grab a few shots, which I posted in the WRUW thread: https://omegaforums.net/threads/wruw-today.567/page-6361#post-1288126. (Stupidly I neglected to grab a selfie with him and his Speedie.) Anyway...
The highlights of the display are two Speedies from the Speedmaster Missions set - Apollo XI and Apollo XVII, representing the first and last men to set foot on the moon. The Apollo XI looked great, but the poor old XVII looked like it had been through the wars. I wasn't able to spend a lot of time trying to get a better angle, but the watch is not sitting correctly in its case, and it would appear to have taken a fall - the Hessalite is broken, or at the very least badly scuffed, as you can see in the photo.
I don't know if Omega regularly checks on those watches, but they might want to pay a visit sometime soon, and get a new crystal on that watch because it right now it doesn't exactly exude excellence!
The highlights of the display are two Speedies from the Speedmaster Missions set - Apollo XI and Apollo XVII, representing the first and last men to set foot on the moon. The Apollo XI looked great, but the poor old XVII looked like it had been through the wars. I wasn't able to spend a lot of time trying to get a better angle, but the watch is not sitting correctly in its case, and it would appear to have taken a fall - the Hessalite is broken, or at the very least badly scuffed, as you can see in the photo.
I don't know if Omega regularly checks on those watches, but they might want to pay a visit sometime soon, and get a new crystal on that watch because it right now it doesn't exactly exude excellence!
