No hate..just curios..why did NASA decide to take the Omega Speedy over Rolex ?

[Speedbird-1]

Omega, may have won the 'moon watch' skirmish, but, I would humbly suggest, Rolex, have easily won the, reputation and desirability wars.

eg; 2024 Omega - Speedmaster Moonphase. mrsp £14,400
used £8,700

2024 Rolex - Daytona 126500 LN. mrsp £13,200
used £23,950


JMHO.

[Ten Ten & 32]

Omega was the ‘Official’ watch of the missions but I’m sure somewhere I read that some astronauts also took their own watches - most notably one of them being a Rolex GMT

Also, when I visited the Kennedy Space centre a few years ago, there was a display dedicated to one of the early failed missions where one of the astronauts unfortunately died (apologies can’t remember his name) - there were some of his personal artefacts recovered from the crash wreckage, one of which was his wrist watch which was actually a Timex


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[Ten Ten & 32]

Originally Posted by Dirt

Yes, and be that as it may.

NASA had stipulated as part of their key requirements/preconditions for contenders of the series of tests, that the watches simply had to have the capability of being manually wound.
That is an inescapable fact and one would imagine it was for a very important reason when one stops to think about it.

Automatic movements can be manually wound


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Originally Posted by Ten Ten & 32

Automatic movements can be manually wound

True.

At the time Rolex did not have an automatic chronograph, only the manually wound Valjoux equipped Daytona/Cosmograph.

It's ancient history though. They only tested one Daytona from a store shelf, and a hand warped binding it up. Another Daytona may not have had the same experience, and history could have been different.

[INC]

I think we discussed this story a few months ago here ;)

[Ten Ten & 32]

Found the article I’d seen previously about Astronauts taking their own watches into space.

Admittedly, this wasn’t the first mission


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