Your Chance To Own Apollo 11 Astronaut Buzz Aldrin’s Omega Speedmaster

Robert-Jan · Jul 14, 2026

In less than a week, we will commemorate the Apollo 11 lunar landing, which took place on July 20th, 1969. The first astronauts to set foot on the Moon were, of course, Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin. The other Apollo 11 astronaut, Michael Collins, waited for them while orbiting the Moon in the Columbia […]

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dsio · Jul 14, 2026

Interesting X-33 in particular, there are some other little differences like the shape of the endlinks on the bracelet compared to a regular Gen 2, guessing it won’t to cheap but I’d love to see a full list of the differences

SpeedyPhill · Jul 15, 2026

For a very long time Edwin Eugene Aldrin has been wearing three Omega watches, two of which on a single bracelet:
an Omega deVille co-axial chronoscope GMT and a Speedmaster X-33, with on his righthand wrist a Solar Impulse HB-SIA.
During his spaceflight missions, Gemini XII and Apollo 11 Aldrin accumulated 290 hours in space. After leaving NASA in 1971, Aldrin often wore his Rolex GMT-master and Sea-Dweller, while in the late 1990s he was often seen wearing the Breitling Emergency to return full-time to Omega by the new millennium.
Timely auction, as it has been 60 years since USAF Major Edwin Aldrin received his first NASA-issued Omega Speedmaster 105.003-64 as he became backup for the Gemini IX mission, flying later on Gemini XII in November 1966.
On May 5, 2023, USAF Colonel Edwin Aldrin was promoted to honorary Brig General in the US Air Force.

Your Chance To Own Apollo 11 Astronaut Buzz Aldrin’s Omega Speedmaster

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