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·MWO 2017 covers more Speedmaster chronographs (SpeedyTuesday edition & Baselworld 2017 trilogy...) but also has a chapter on the Mark II to V chronographs and information on the Alaska projects... an enlarged & updated version 📖
Superb work by the authors... pitty of a few mistakes about the spaceflight missions 🙁
With the 321 movement revival and other 2019 releases, the authors are going to have a lot of works at their hands...
For those interested, my spaceflight related remarks:
p 28
On Gemini IV Edward White (& Jim McDivitt) wore a pair of Omega Speedmaster chronographs, probably 105.003-64, during his spacewalk.
p 32
Thomas Slayton used his gold tribute Speedmaster extensively during ASTP-training (simulator, flying T-38, etc...). None of these gold tribute Speedies ever flew on a spaceflight mission.
p 33
1978 Soyuz 27 training photos of cosmonaut Vladimir Dzhanibekov show him wearing a " 125 years Omega Speedmaster ".
Dzhanibekov certainly wore a Speedmaster 145.022 on Soyuz 39 to Salyut 6 in March 1981... an Intercosmos mission with Mongolia.
p 360
Alexei Leonov extensively used an Omega Flightmaster during ASTP-training and wore it in daily life.
On his first mission, Voskhod 2 (March 1965) he wore a "Strela" wristwatch (underneath the Berkut space suit).
p 509
During training for STS-1 "Columbia", veteran astronaut John Young wore a Speedmaster "Professional" chronograph with applied logo ( probably 145.012-67 ). The first "radial" Speedmaster in space was worn by astronauts Joe Engle and Richard Truly onboard STS-2 "Columbia in November 1981.
