#WatchMakingHistory

[moonwatchuniverse]

Celebrating 50 years Apollo 11 and highlighting the Omega Speedmaster chronographs with artworks depicting Apollo 11 moonwalkers, commander Neil Armstrong and Lunar Module Pilot Edwin Aldrin wearing an Omega Speedmaster chronograph on their way to the first manned lunar landing in history. At launch, all astronauts, including Command Module Pilot Michael Collins, wore their NASA-issued Speedmaster 105.012 over the sleeve of the A7L spacesuit. Neil Armstrong wore his over the right wrist while LMP Edwin Aldrin choose to wear it on his left wrist. (Photo: MoonwatchUniverse - EH space art)

[wristwatchlover]

Composition of 2 NASA photos taken August 7, 1971 during the Apollo 15 recovery operations by USS Okinawa in the North Pacific Ocean. Apollo 15 commander David Scott was clearly wearing the Bulova chronograph at his left wrist. Scott’s private Bulova watch was used during the last Apollo 15 lunar EVA and was sold at the autumn 2015 RR auction for US $ 1.625 million. (Photo: NASA)

[relogioserelogios]

Há exatamente 50 anos, em 10 de Janeiro de 1969, a Zenith anunciava o lançamento do primeiro cronógrafo automático, o El Primero! O resto é história... 📷 @zenithwatches • • #zenith #zenithelprimero #elprimero50years #elprimero #chronograph #automaticchronograph #classicwatch #watchmakinghistory #relogioserelogios https://www.instagram.com/p/BseV2_KBWCJ/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=13p9ezz4we2g9

[memphismeantime]

So cool (and rare) to see a Memphis, TN signed movement. #horology #watchmakinghistory #watchesofinstagram #vintagewatch #instawatch (at Memphis Mean Time)

[moonwatchuniverse]

Naval aviator & astronaut John Young manually winds his Omega Speedmaster 105.003-64 chronograph in preparation of a session in the flight simulator for the Gemini III mission in March 1965. By that time, the Omega Speedmaster chronograph was test-qualified as the official and exclusive timepiece of the American manned space program. Note that the watch was worn over a semi-elastic steel bracelet to fit over the space suit gloves. (Photo: NASA)

[moonwatchuniverse]

March 18, 1965 cosmonaut Alexei Leonov performed the very first spacewalk aboard the 2-men Voskhod 2 mission. The spacewalk lasted 12 minutes and Leonov wore a Strela “Arrow” caliber 3017 chronograph, issued to Soviet-Russian Air Force pilots & manufactured by 1st Moscow Watch Factory, underneath his Berkut space suit. March 19, 1965 Berezniki Ural mountains color TV recovery footage shows both cosmonauts Alexei Leonov and Pavel Belyayev wearing a white dial 33 mm Strela “Arrow” wrist watch. (Photo: TASS/RosCosmos + MoonwatchUniverse)

[moonwatchuniverse]

January 31, 1971, Apollo 14 Lunar Module Pilot Edgar “Ed” Mitchell is putting his personal Rolex GMT-master 1675 wristwatch on his right wrist. During suit up, he was seen tugging two Rolex wristwatches underneath the fire resistant long underwear sleeves. NASA astronauts were allowed to carry some mementos in their PPK - Personal Preference Kit and Mitchell choose to fly a pair of Rolex GMT master wristwatches on his mission to the Moon. (Photo: NASA)

[moonwatchuniverse]

March 22, 1965 astronauts John Young and Gus Grissom attended a weather briefing by Ken Nagler and Ernest Amman, head of the Cape Kennedy section of the Spece Flight Meteorological Group on the day before the first scheduled 2-men Gemini flight. Note that astronaut John Young had been wearing two Omega Speedmaster 105.003-64 chronographs for about a week as these were just flight-qualified as official watch for NASA manned spaceflight missions. (Photo: NASA)

[moonwatchuniverse]

January 31, 1971, Apollo 14 Lunar Module Pilot Edgar “Ed” Mitchell is putting a second Rolex GMT-master wristwatch on his left wrist. During suit up, he was seen tugging two Rolex wristwatches underneath the fire resistant long underwear sleeves. NASA astronauts were allowed to carry some mementos in their PPK - Personal Preference Kit and Mitchell choose to fly a pair of Rolex GMT master wristwatches on his mission to the Moon. (Photo: NASA)

[moonwatchuniverse]

February 9, 1971 the Apollo 14 crew in the Mobile Quarantine Facility after recovery by the USS New Orleans in the South Pacific Ocean, south of Tonga. Note that both CMP Stuart Roosa and LMP Edgar Mitchell were wearing their personal Rolex GMT-master Pepsi on their left wrist. (Photo: NASA)

[moonwatchuniverse]

Omega’s first Alaska Project time piece prototypes came with a silver-white dial and red Gemini-capsule-like subdial hands to ensure precise reading even in severe vibration conditions while the Speedmaster was worn on the Lunar Roving Vehicle. The 1972 Alaska II Speedmaster came with three black Gemini-capsule-like subdial hands but by 1978, the Alaska III Speedmaster came with normal subdial hands on a classic black radial dial and became the watch for the Space Shuttle program. (Photo: Omega/MoonwatchUniverse)

[moonwatchuniverse]

Apollo 14 Command Module Pilot Stuart Roosa’s personal Rolex GMT-master Pepsi was seen several times on the video of the Heat Flow Experiment aboard Command Module “Kitty Hawk”. Each of the Apollo 14 crew members owned a  Rolex GMT master as their personal timepiece. (Photo: NASA)

[moonwatchuniverse]

December 2004,  NASA astronaut Leroy Chiao wore his Rolex GMT-master aboard the ISS - International Space Station. In fact he wore his personal Rolex on four different spaceflight missions, remarkably on three different space shuttle orbiters: Columbia (July 1994), Endeavour (January 1996), Discovery (October 2000). In addition on a Soyuz capsule during his ascent & departure from his mission as Expedition 10 leader aboard the ISS during 192 days... Accumulating a total of 229 Days 8 Hours in space... with his Rolex GMT-Master... Most time for a Rolex in space ! (Photo: NASA)

[moonwatchuniverse]

January 31, 1971, detail of NASA photo KSC71P-97 showing astronaut chief Deke Slayton on the left and Apollo 14 Lunar Module Pilot Edgar Mitchell on the right during suit up procedures prior to launch. Note that Edgar Mitchell is winding a Rolex GMT-master wristwatch with a second wristwatch on the table near his space suit gloves. (Photo: NASA)

[moonwatchuniverse]

July 20, 1969 the Eagle has landed... Omega watches 2009 Apollo 11 merchandise next to commemorative bronze statuette of an astronaut stepping from the Lunar Module landing foot onto the lunar surface. Artist Ferdinand Rebechini (1926-2002) based this pose on the Norman Rockwell painting depicting “Man’s first step on the moon” (titled: “Man on the Moon”). A print of that painting was included as a fold out poster in the January 10, 1967 issue of Life Magazine. Swiss Omega SA used the phrase “FirstWatchOnTheMoon” to promote the manual winding Omega Speedmaster chronograph ever since. (Photo: MoonWatchUniverse)

[moonwatchuniverse]

June 7, 1965 the Gemini IV crew, Pilot Edward White and Commander James McDivitt relax post-recovery aboard the US Navy ship USS Wasp. Both astronauts wore a pair of Omega Speedmaster 105.003-64 chronographs during this 4 days 1 hour mission. Note White’s Speedmaster on a velcro strap is clearly visible at his left wrist. (Photo: NASA)