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·Spaceflight aficionado and Omega Speedmaster fan since 1972, I only bought my first Speedmaster in 1994 as it was the 25th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission and the Omega Speedmaster was available with a display caseback so the impressive 861 movement could be admired. This Speedmaster only needed a service after 22 years as it couldn't be winded by 2016...
Getting the chronograph & replaced pieces back after an Omega service, I decided to share in the excitement for the upcoming 60th anniversary of the Omega Speedmaster in 2017. Being a vivid astrophotographer, I decide to use the name MoonwatchUniverse for a Tumbler photoblog... start up in July 2016...
The aim was to share my personal collection of time period spaceflight related photographs collected between 1972 and 1992 by writing letters to both NASA headquarters, NASA centers and the StarCity cosmonaut training center in Moscow. This 45 years old collection was reduced to 500 photographs which clearly showed the wrist watches used by astronauts, cosmonauts, mission & payload specialists during training and actual spaceflight.
During a visit to the OMEGA Museum, I met the museum director and I got fascinated by the red outer cases of the 1969 OMEGA Alaska Project. At home I started to check my photo collection, which lead to the Soyuz 25 and 26 walkout color photos showing the Soviet-Russian crews wearing these ex-Alaska II outer cases on their Sokol spacesuit for missions to the Salyut-6 space station in late 1977. A fascinating fact to discover that OMEGA’s ultimate space watch, developed for NASA, found enthusiastic customers on the other side of the Iron Curtain.
Since 1999, as a watch enthusiast I have written a dozen articles on spacefarers' wirstwatches, ranging from the Omega Speedmaster over the Seiko digital alarm chronograph to the Accutron Bulova wrist watches. As Omega has its own program on releasing information, I started to contact astronauts and cosmonauts about their personal watches used & worn in space and my interests turned to other pilot wristwatches (Rolex, Fortis, etc...).
After three years the blog has been discovered by 900 followers and it got the attention of some remarkable people, among whom I was glad to meet in person several Omega Forum members, a few astronauts and some watch makes...
Are You planning an article, event or GTG and would like to use my spacefarers' wristwatches slideshow as a nice background distraction, don't hesitate to contact me...
https://www.watchbooksonly.com/omeg...views/12-questions-only-to-moonwatchuniverse/
and
https://moonwatchuniverse.tumblr.com/archive
Getting the chronograph & replaced pieces back after an Omega service, I decided to share in the excitement for the upcoming 60th anniversary of the Omega Speedmaster in 2017. Being a vivid astrophotographer, I decide to use the name MoonwatchUniverse for a Tumbler photoblog... start up in July 2016...
The aim was to share my personal collection of time period spaceflight related photographs collected between 1972 and 1992 by writing letters to both NASA headquarters, NASA centers and the StarCity cosmonaut training center in Moscow. This 45 years old collection was reduced to 500 photographs which clearly showed the wrist watches used by astronauts, cosmonauts, mission & payload specialists during training and actual spaceflight.
During a visit to the OMEGA Museum, I met the museum director and I got fascinated by the red outer cases of the 1969 OMEGA Alaska Project. At home I started to check my photo collection, which lead to the Soyuz 25 and 26 walkout color photos showing the Soviet-Russian crews wearing these ex-Alaska II outer cases on their Sokol spacesuit for missions to the Salyut-6 space station in late 1977. A fascinating fact to discover that OMEGA’s ultimate space watch, developed for NASA, found enthusiastic customers on the other side of the Iron Curtain.
Since 1999, as a watch enthusiast I have written a dozen articles on spacefarers' wirstwatches, ranging from the Omega Speedmaster over the Seiko digital alarm chronograph to the Accutron Bulova wrist watches. As Omega has its own program on releasing information, I started to contact astronauts and cosmonauts about their personal watches used & worn in space and my interests turned to other pilot wristwatches (Rolex, Fortis, etc...).
After three years the blog has been discovered by 900 followers and it got the attention of some remarkable people, among whom I was glad to meet in person several Omega Forum members, a few astronauts and some watch makes...
Are You planning an article, event or GTG and would like to use my spacefarers' wristwatches slideshow as a nice background distraction, don't hesitate to contact me...
https://www.watchbooksonly.com/omeg...views/12-questions-only-to-moonwatchuniverse/
and
https://moonwatchuniverse.tumblr.com/archive
but the others are credited NASA & Zvezda as they should be... End-of-Story!
