It’s Speedy Tuesday! As you might have seen in our Speedy Tuesday Event report, Omega brought the original gold commemorative Speedmaster Professional BA 145.022 with them that belonged to astronaut Thomas Kenneth “Ken” Mattingly II. This Tuesday we discuss his gold Speedy that he – and other astronauts – received as a gift from Omega. Only 1014 of these Speedmasters have been made and even fewer were – of course – particularly for astronauts and other VIPs and have a slightly different engraving then the public models. Thomas Kenneth “Ken” Mattingly Ken Mattingly worked for NASA from 1966 to 1985 […] Click here to read the entire article: Speedy Tuesday – Ken Mattingly’s Omega Speedmaster
This piece was beautiful, I saw it on the table and admired the condition but I didn't realise at the time that it was Ken Mattingly's!
Can anyone tell me what the difference between 'Thomas Kenneth “Ken” Mattingly II' and 'Thomas Kenneth “Ken” Mattingly Jr.' would be? Do you only use the 'II' if you're important high society and the 'Jr.' if you're a regular schmuck?
This is my grail. Well not the astronaut thing, I couldn't afford that. But the more affordable (but still expensive) and available BA 145.022.
That's right, soon you'll be forty and have to wear ultra thin dress watches as well. Say, anyone got a ultra thin AP?
Actually, I thought "II" was optional for "Jr.", or was for someone named after a grandfather (different name than father) who was still alive. gatorcpa
A very good friend of mine in Missouri is David IV, there is no David 1,2 or 3. His parents just called him "The fourth" because they chose to
Actually Steve, this is not correct. The son of Jr. is the III (assuming the same exact name of course) An example: If your name is John Henry Doe and you name your son John Henry Doe, you then become Senior (Sr.) and your son Junior (Jr.), not the second (II). If your son John Henry Doe, Jr. names his son (your grandson) the same, his son then becomes 'the third"', i.e. John Henry Doe III. However, if you name your son Richard Henry or John Harold, anything but John Henry Doe, but he still names his son (your grandson) after you, your grandson then becomes John Henry Doe II. ...(what happens if you are Big Doe but only have a little Doe? ...then you can't buy any watches)
In Australia we don't use roman numerals, just variations on the name, for example for Thomas: The first: Tom The second: Thomas The third: Tommy The fourth: Little Tommy The fifth: Just stop already