Omega Speedmaster 'Would NASA select second best?" Archived and the movement is running

and the movement is running like a top

this chrono is powered by the Valjoux Calibre 730

and the case back is adorned by a medallion embossed with the hippocampus seen on Speedmasters until the post-Moon Reference 145

like the DOXAs of yore and today

Lemania’s star designer in the 1930s-1940s

Omega Speedmaster 'Would NASA select second best?" Archived and the movement is running'Would NASA Select Second Best?' The 1969 Moon landings were a public relations coup for Omega and how could they not be? The first men to walk on the lunar surface were wearing Omega Speedmasters. (Well, one was the other left his in the landing module.) And as this 1970 advertisement thoughtfully points out, these were no specialized, souped up, space going models; rather, they were the same ordinary Omega chronographs that anyone could purchase in