Continued Love to Omega

Omega Speedmaster production began in 1957 with retail sales beginning in 1958 (ref CK2915).This first generation Speedmaster is identified firstly by the applied, central Omega badge, ‘Broad Arrow, hands and round stainless steel case with a bezel engraved with the Tachymetre scale. Omega Speedmaster copy.

The Speedmaster has been on every manned space mission since The Faith Seven mission, captained by Gordon Cooper on May 15th, 1963. In the early nineteen-sixties several NASA employees anonymously visited a few jewelry stores in Houston, Texas. They purchased several chronographs made by competing watchmakers and set upon the mini-mission of determining the best timepiece for their astronauts to take into the harshness of outer space.Designer omega copy. By the way, Wally Schirra had already worn his own Omega Speedmaster on his Mercury flight in October of 1962.

Since then the Speedmaster has been to the moon and back and been in space more times than any individual human being. Having been put through more testing by NASA during the build up to the Apollo 17 mission, when NASA offered 16 wristwatch manufacturers the chance to have their watches considered for the ‘Qualified product list,’ the Speedmaster was again the only survivor and NASA continued with its use as it does to this day. With this in mind the Omega Speedmaster truly deserves its now legendary status and title of ‘ Moonwatch’.