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rspace
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Jerry Zuniga
·Correct me if I'm wrong, but fot that time period hard crystals didn't have the omega logo. Only the plastic ones had it back then.
BTW, nice flightmaster.
BTW, nice flightmaster.
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MIDirtyBastard
·flightmaster landed! Bought without much info, but returns accepted, so I took a chance. I was looking for sharpe edges (unlike the ‘butter’ one I posted a month or so ago). Running -1 sec/ day with 290 amplitude and love the fit! Pretty stoked about this one!
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Bill Sohne
··Bill @ ΩFFreaking great !!!
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Mauzer
·I was looking for sharpe edges
The Flightmaster is a watch where you can really appreciate the sharp edges. Though mine is a bit polished, I still love those edges.
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detsen
·For all you Flightmaster lovers and collectors I just made this video that you guys might enjoy. I go over the mechanics of how it works.
Fine to see how it all works
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detsen
·flightmaster landed! Bought without much info, but returns accepted, so I took a chance. I was looking for sharpe edges (unlike the ‘butter’ one I posted a month or so ago). Running -1 sec/ day with 290 amplitude and love the fit! Pretty stoked about this one!
Nice 1!
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jaguar11
·flightmaster landed! Bought without much info, but returns accepted, so I took a chance. I was looking for sharpe edges (unlike the ‘butter’ one I posted a month or so ago). Running -1 sec/ day with 290 amplitude and love the fit! Pretty stoked about this one!
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SpeedyPhill
·Flighty Friday... as MoonwatchUniverse is combing through Apollo-Soyuz photographs for an elaborate article on the subject 📖
We post a couple of photos showing Soviet-Russian cosmonaut Alexei Leonov throwing an American football pass on the Capitol Mall grass fields in Washington DC (September 1974). The whole DC mall photo series exists of 25 photographs...
In the American capital, during their third USA visit, cosmonauts Leonov, Kubasov and Shatalov meet their NASA colleagues and visited vice-president Gerald Ford in the White House. In fact, Ford’s 895 days in the White House saw the end of the Apollo Program and the beginning of the space shuttle program.
Note Leonov wore an Omega Flightmaster pilot watch, but eventually, during the historic July 1975 mission, both ASTP cosmonauts wore the newer Speedmaster 861 models, while their NASA colleagues wore their 321 Speedmaster chronograph models.
(Photos: NASA/Underwood archive)
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We post a couple of photos showing Soviet-Russian cosmonaut Alexei Leonov throwing an American football pass on the Capitol Mall grass fields in Washington DC (September 1974). The whole DC mall photo series exists of 25 photographs...
In the American capital, during their third USA visit, cosmonauts Leonov, Kubasov and Shatalov meet their NASA colleagues and visited vice-president Gerald Ford in the White House. In fact, Ford’s 895 days in the White House saw the end of the Apollo Program and the beginning of the space shuttle program.
Note Leonov wore an Omega Flightmaster pilot watch, but eventually, during the historic July 1975 mission, both ASTP cosmonauts wore the newer Speedmaster 861 models, while their NASA colleagues wore their 321 Speedmaster chronograph models.
(Photos: NASA/Underwood archive)
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Mauzer
·Leonov wore an Omega Flightmaster pilot watch
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Dash1
·@lowen very kindly gave me a copy of his excellent book 'Flightmaster Only' a couple of weeks ago. I almost didn't dare to read it as I knew only too well what would happen. How could I resist:
I love the way the dials all seem to age differently and I have to say this .013 version wears much more comfortably than you might imagine.
I love the way the dials all seem to age differently and I have to say this .013 version wears much more comfortably than you might imagine.
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Britinus
·@lowen very kindly gave me a copy of his excellent book 'Flightmaster Only' a couple of weeks ago. I almost didn't dare to read it as I knew only too well what would happen. How could I resist:
I love the way the dials all seem to age differently and I have to say this .013 version wears much more comfortably than you might imagine.
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wristpirate
·Good article from Hodinkee "What Would A Modern Omega Flightmaster Look Like?"
https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/what-would-a-modern-omega-flightmaster-look-like
https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/what-would-a-modern-omega-flightmaster-look-like
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alvaropm
·Here’s my 911. All original . After many years looking for one in this condition.
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Seaborg
·145.013 from first owner, a former Airbus engineer.
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tritto
·Here is mine, with a story. I bought it off the local Facebook marketplace a few months ago. I got to sit down with the original owner while he told me all about his adventures getting his private pilots licence in 1974 and how his mother gave him this Flightmaster to celebrate. Unable to afford the flying hours, he never completed his commercial licence, but he flew with this watch in private planes for many years. He worked for most of his life in a huge zinc plating factory and his watch copped a proper beating. At some point it got water inside and stopped running and it got put aside. He and his wife were moving into a retirement home so it was time for the watch to go - yes, I asked if he was really sure about selling it.
I sent it off to Adam Lewis for a service and case kit (all the gaskets had melted). Adam found extensive water damage on the keyless works and setting mechanism so there were plenty of parts replaced. Although Adam does amazing case restorations on these, I elected to keep it as is, despite the many scratches and dings. Part of that reasoning was that the caseback is engraved with the owner's name and 1975. Having heard the story, I wanted to retain its history - especially since I have a photo of his pilots license to go along with it.
I sent it off to Adam Lewis for a service and case kit (all the gaskets had melted). Adam found extensive water damage on the keyless works and setting mechanism so there were plenty of parts replaced. Although Adam does amazing case restorations on these, I elected to keep it as is, despite the many scratches and dings. Part of that reasoning was that the caseback is engraved with the owner's name and 1975. Having heard the story, I wanted to retain its history - especially since I have a photo of his pilots license to go along with it.
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Mauzer
·Here is mine, with a story. I bought it off the local Facebook marketplace a few months ago. I got to sit down with the original owner while he told me all about his adventures getting his private pilots licence in 1974 and how his mother gave him this Flightmaster to celebrate. Unable to afford the flying hours, he never completed his commercial licence, but he flew with this watch in private planes for many years. He worked for most of his life in a huge zinc plating factory and his watch copped a proper beating. At some point it got water inside and stopped running and it got put aside. He and his wife were moving into a retirement home so it was time for the watch to go - yes, I asked if he was really sure about selling it.
I sent it off to Adam Lewis for a service and case kit (all the gaskets had melted). Adam found extensive water damage on the keyless works and setting mechanism so there were plenty of parts replaced. Although Adam does amazing case restorations on these, I elected to keep it as is, despite the many scratches and dings. Part of that reasoning was that the caseback is engraved with the owner's name and 1975. Having heard the story, I wanted to retain its history - especially since I have a photo of his pilots license to go along with it.
That’s a pretty good story! Congratulations with the watch!
