Love these watches. As soon as I can save some more funds I'm going to look for one of these

 

That's a sweet workshop!

 

It looks like I couldn’t resist to this one. 145.026, cal. 911, worn and scratched but it clearly has tons of stories to tell :




I had to get one and wear it to really understand it and start appreciating them. Must admit it has a lot of wrist time now

 

Enjoy and wear in good health. They do grow on you!

 

This thread is severely influinging my want to buy list....

 

Pure 70's cool....

 

This generally applies to most of the threads here but I feel your pain regarding this one in particular

 

I love this thread

 

Finally received the carefully refurbished sunburst case.
I’m satisfied.

 

Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov turned up in the beginning of this topic, but neither he nor Kubasov wore the Omega Flightmaster during the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project spaceflight ( aka Apollo 18 & Soyuz 19 ). They wore a Flightmaster during training... Picture shows both cosmonauts Alexei Leonov and Valeri Kubasov during English language lesson:
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Omega Flightmaster flown aboard space shuttle Atlantis on the STS-46 mission in August 1992... Photo shows Italian TeleComs engineer/astronaut Franco Malerba on the aft flight deck of the shuttle as he was wearing an Omega Flightmaster 145.036 calibre 911 with 24 hour function recognizable by its thicker watch case.
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For reference:

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145.036? Shouldn't that be the 145.026 because of the orange hands...?

 

Yellow hands were on an option on all three versions as I understand it.

 

Never realized that. I knew that the 145.026 could also have yellow hands, but in the reference books never actually bumped into a 145.036 with orange hands... Google will find some though Tnx.

 

As I understand it the .026/.036 variation is to do with water resistance/pressure resistance levels.

And the bi-colour pushers (half red/half yellow) are so that whichever hand set it used, the pushers still make sense.

 

I was not aware of a case dimension difference between 145.026 and 145.036. Perhaps worth a separate thread?

 

Sounds like some things are getting muddled above.

The 910 has a 24 hour counter, the 911 replaces that with a running seconds counter.

The .026 and .036 share a near identical case... the difference being around the crystal and gasket.

Good info here: http://www.old-omegas.com/pilotline.html

 

Here is an indepth study of all three references
http://passion-horlogere.com/la-saga-flightmaster-ii/
You might need to view in chrome and translate

 

You can change it to English on the page

 

That’s news to me too, I was stuttering through it using my bad French...