Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/10/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I got one of these for my 21st birthday in 1971 from my father. It has extreme emotional value, my father died a couple of years later, and I do not wear it all that often nowadays though I wore it daily for 15 or so years. It is rare in that it has red hands rather than the pale green, at the time I rather wanted the green hands though! It was before all the hullabaloo about the watch being a moonwatch, certainly as far as I knew at the time. Frank On 15 Oct, 2008, at 01:52, lug wrote: > nice watch. > > leo > > On Oct 14, 2008, at 4:43 PM, Rob McClure wrote: > >> From past discussions on this topic, I believe there are a number >> of Omega Speedy owners on this list. Mine is the original "Moon >> watch" model, virtually identical to the watch worn by Neil >> Armstrong during his walk on the Moon. As specified by NASA it has >> an acrylic "Hesalite" crystal (won't shatter) and is hand-wound >> (they weren't sure how a self-winding mechanism would work in a >> weightless environment). It is a 3 dial Chronograph without a date >> and day function. The Speedy Moon was used by the Apollo 13 >> astronauts for manual time calculations after the computers quit >> functioning. The Speedy Moon is still certified by NASA for space >> use, though undoubtedly quartz is now the movement of choice. Mine >> has the steel strap, though NASA of course used a velcro one. >> Here's link for more info: >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega_Speedmaster_Professional >> >> >> Rob >> On Oct 14, 2008, at 2:24 PM, simon jessurun wrote: >> >>> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information