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Lot Essay
Each Speedmaster Professional model in the special 40th anniversary series shows on its dial - at 9 o'clock - one of the official patches from NASA's first manned space missions, from the August 1965 Gemini to the Skylab SL-4 mission of 16 November 1973.
These patches relate the adventure of space exploration in which the Speedmaster Professional - the only watch worn on the Moon - was involved. The Speedmaster made six round-trips to the Moon: from the first man on the Moon, Neil Armstrong on July 21, 1969 at 02:56 GMT, to the last, Apollo 17 commander Gene Cernan.
Today on its way to Mars, Omega has introduced the new Speedmaster X-33 (see lot 39) which is now standard equipment for NASA Space Shuttle flights as well as for the Russian MIR.
These patches relate the adventure of space exploration in which the Speedmaster Professional - the only watch worn on the Moon - was involved. The Speedmaster made six round-trips to the Moon: from the first man on the Moon, Neil Armstrong on July 21, 1969 at 02:56 GMT, to the last, Apollo 17 commander Gene Cernan.
Today on its way to Mars, Omega has introduced the new Speedmaster X-33 (see lot 39) which is now standard equipment for NASA Space Shuttle flights as well as for the Russian MIR.