The story starts, not with my 1978 Speedmaster 145.022 but on a July day in 1961 in West London. Three months earlier Yuri Gagarin’s Vostok One took the first man into space. Now aged 7, I stood with my Dad in the crowds lining the streets near our house in Hounslow. As Gagarin’s car drove past towards London Airport he waved and even today I get butterflies just thinking about that moment. On Yuri’s wrist during that first manned earth orbit – a Sturmanskie watch made by the First Moscow Watch Factory. The first watch in space. Fast forward 8 […] The article Speedy Tuesday – Our Reader’s Speedmaster 145.022-78 Story appeared first on Fratello Watches.
I love Speedy Tuesday, a great place for me to learn more about the Speedmaster and all the different variations.