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26 years ago... June 1992 ... the STS-46 crew is briefed in the white room of space shuttle launchpad 39B in Florida
Note that Italian mission specialist Franco Malerba had put an elastic over his Omega Flightmaster in order to protect it whenever he should by accident bump into some metal structure during launchpad training exercises...
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PaulC77
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I remember why I had to put it away before, they are so hard to stop wearing...
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Where is the cheapest site in eu to buy the Flightmaster only book?
Thx.

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Hello everyone in the forum, the theory that I have the size of the scale of the numbers on the seconds is that the first flightmaster 145.026 have these variables in the seconds
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as well as the number 3 at an angle in the hours counter, the numbers of the seconds hand are the same as those of the Speedmaster's seconds, best regards
 
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Hello everyone in the forum, the theory that I have the size of the scale of the numbers on the seconds is that the first's flightmaster 145.026 have these variables in the seconds as well as the number 3 at an angle in the hours counter, the numbers of the seconds are the same as those of the Speedmaster's seconds, best regards.
 
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EricMex EricMex
Hello everyone in the forum, the theory that I have the size of the scale of the numbers on the seconds is that the first flightmaster 145.026 have these variables in the seconds as well as the number 3 at an angle in the hours counter, the numbers of the seconds hand are the same as those of the Speedmaster's seconds, best regards

Hello, you have a Flightmaster with a rare transitional dial here (subdial at 9 with a different font compared to the two others), congrats. Still if you put your watch aside a Speedmaster (assuming you talk about a regular Moonwatch) you will see that the subcounters at 9 are different ! 😉
 
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Flightmaster Only! .... accompanied by my 145.013 & 145.013 'Transitional'

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What a surprise today: Omega Archives confirmed this early Flightmaster 'Transition' Ref 145.013 from 1971 as entirely legit and identified United States Sixth Fleet as first owner

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LeCorb LeCorb
What a surprise today: Omega Archives confirmed this early Flightmaster 'Transition' Ref 145.013 from 1971 as entirely legit and identified United States Sixth Fleet as first owner

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Does having the US Military as the original owners mean it’s ok for civilians to own?

I remember hearing with NASA Speedies that they were property of the government and weren’t to be sold. Kind of a “If Found, please return to...” type of a deal.

All that said, that is pretty damn awesome to have confirmation of such a watch. Super cool.
 
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My NOS 145-026 is also a transitional with serial # 31.6m which is very close yours above.

Enjoy wearing yours @LeCorb
 
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Marty McDawg Marty McDawg
Does having the US Military as the original owners mean it’s ok for civilians to own?

I remember hearing with NASA Speedies that they were property of the government and weren’t to be sold. Kind of a “If Found, please return to...” type of a deal.

All that said, that is pretty damn awesome to have confirmation of such a watch. Super cool.

Thanks Marty, I am really happy about the outcomes 😀
Well, regarding the property aspect... clearly the NASA Speedies are a different story. But you can see tons of vintage military issued watches being sold and owned all over the world without governmental institutions claiming or suing. Just think about the "Dirty Dozen" and its 6 digit value... and this Flightmaster here does not even have a supply number engraved, not mentioning the significantly lower value compared to the DD .... so, I am very relaxed 😉
 
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Marty McDawg Marty McDawg
Does having the US Military as the original owners mean it’s ok for civilians to own?

If take a punt on this being sold through the US Navy equivalent of the NAFFI to a member of the US Navy, rather than as an asset of the Navy itself.

Very cool to have that on the extract either way. 👍

Marty McDawg Marty McDawg
I remember hearing with NASA Speedies that they were property of the government and weren’t to be sold. Kind of a “If Found, please return to...” type of a deal.

Like most government assets if they had the correct disposal paperwork, a civilian could own them. The kicker being that the US government would not/will not issue disposal paperwork for those watches.
 
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ATWG ATWG
My NOS 145-026 is also a transitional with serial # 31.6m which is very close yours above.

Enjoy wearing yours @LeCorb

Wow what a beauty! Is this the original wax coating for protection?
Wear it in good health!
 
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Wow what a beauty! Is this the original wax coating for protection?
Wear it in good health!
Indeed. Was purchased from the orig owner who had bought 2 at the same time while on vacation. He wore one daily and put one away for future use fully anticipating the watch wouldn’t withstand more than 5 years of use. He still had the other in his possession when I bought this from him.
 
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LeCorb LeCorb
Thanks Marty, I am really happy about the outcomes 😀
Well, regarding the property aspect... clearly the NASA Speedies are a different story. But you can see tons of vintage military issued watches being sold and owned all over the world without governmental institutions claiming or suing. Just think about the "Dirty Dozen" and its 6 digit value... and this Flightmaster here does not even have a supply number engraved, not mentioning the significantly lower value compared to the DD .... so, I am very relaxed 😉

Ah I don’t know why I didn’t think about the DD. Makes total sense.

Great watch and Extremely cool to have the extract back it up and to have a confirmed history with the military. Super cool. Have others seen extracts come back with a similar military delivery history?
 
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