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This is a watch that most just jumped on the sheeplle band wagon. And now they are spruiking the moon landing dribble connected to it like it was a life long inspiration.
2012 there was probably 10 people here that were passionate about them and only 3 that were moonwatch/astronaut passionate
2005 they were a $500-1000 watch that took months to sell.
As somebody who was a young boy during the Apollo programme I read everything I could about it in newspapers and magazines (see my avatar) and saw it on TV, and I'm not from the US. Although it might be hard for younger people to appreciate, it was pretty much continuously front-and-centre in the media during that period. We're talking about successive Apollo launches that were taking place every few months, not years, with each one pushing the envelope further. It was a genuinely exciting era and IMHO we humans have not achieved anything else that matches it in terms of the extent of technical progress that was achieved over such a short period of time.
Coming to Speedmasters, even though at the time there was no way I was going to be able to own one, I was well aware of them and would have loved to have had one. Later, much as the Apollo programme became part of history, my world moved on and there were higher priorities. The underlying desire to own a Speedmaster hadn't gone but I was only in a position to fulfill it much later. Watches are a discretionary item and I wish I had been in a position to buy a Speedy for $500 in 2005 but my focus and spending were elsewhere. I appreciate every watch lover has their own preference but the Speedmaster does have a deep significance for me and if that makes me a Speedy sheeple I'm perfectly OK with that. 馃憤
Side note to Omega: we don't need a Speedy Sheeple LE.
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