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路路Omega Qualified WatchmakerNow if you really want to look for true horological tech innovation, I would look into Seiko SpringDrive. Mechanical power with near quartz precision, something truly innovative:
Not sure I consider making a quartz watch less accurate is really innovative...but for a hybrid quartz watch it's interesting.
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路and we're back with the "but my watch went to the moon" bollocks.
a limited number of mid 60's Omega chronographs owned by NASA were supplied to US Government employees to wear as 3rd or 4th backup timekeepers and may (or may not) have been worn on the surface of the Moon.
At no time has your Omega Sheepmaster been anywhere near either space or the moon (unless you're counting watching TV).
How anybody can get some sort of secondary moonshot effect from a mass manufactured watch is anybody's guess.
One of the leading indicators of the decline of any civilisation is the "retro" bug. Too much attention paid to the past and not enough to the future. You can never go back in time. You can't even look over your shoulder at whatever happened yesterday.
old tech (with thanks to @Archer), old ideas.
how does anybody worship "70 year old tech" over the current era Omega movements?
Part of the appeal, which you haven't mentioned, is not that one's particular watch did or did not go to the moon, but it's rather that the rigorous testing which it survived to make it acceptable to go there, confers upon it a certain esteem.
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路路This Space for RentI join in @SeanO in dissent. The attraction to Speedmasters for me is that it's a motorsports watch, not a spaceship watch. The whole moon part of it is a bit of a distraction. It's great and all that, but it is not the reason for the watch's existence. It was around for a handful of years before any of the space stuff popped up.
I understand why Omega ran with the space aspect though -- it sold a horrendous amount of watches, and still does! But I use the watches a heck of a lot more for motorsports than I do for my journeys to outer space.
I understand why Omega ran with the space aspect though -- it sold a horrendous amount of watches, and still does! But I use the watches a heck of a lot more for motorsports than I do for my journeys to outer space.
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路路Omega Qualified WatchmakerThe attraction to Speedmasters for me is that it's a motorsports watch, not a spaceship watch. The whole moon part of it is a bit of a distraction.
Let me out dissent your dissent...馃榾
To me it鈥檚 just a watch, and I don鈥檛 associate it with trips to the moon or motorsports. I don鈥檛 use it to time laps or rocket burns.
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路路This Space for RentOkay, to be honest the track car has been up on a lift the last 3 seasons, and I've only been out to the track a couple time during that period. So the Speedmasters mainly get used these days to time cooking dinner, or time-outs for our 6 year old. The diving watch bezels perform similar duties 馃槑
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路路Omega Qualified WatchmakerI guess I don鈥檛 really mind/care why others like or dislike a particular watch...
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路One of the leading indicators of the decline of any civilisation is the "retro" bug. Too much attention paid to the past and not enough to the future. You can never go back in time. You can't even look over your shoulder at whatever happened yesterday.
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