Space Watches - what to get next?
I was hoping to furnish this thread with a pic of my lovely Twinings tea box containing 3 of my favourite ever watches, with an ominously spare space, but as the wife is ill and has gone to bed early, I guess individual pictures will have to do. This is what's currently in my "Space Watches" box:
https://i.imgur.com/i4DQhHV.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/aCWeNiJ.jpg?1
https://i.imgur.com/sNSfwXx.jpg
So, the Friday evening question is, what to finish the collection?
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Space Watches - what to get next?
How about a Rolex that never made it into space? The Space Dweller is essentially a 1016/Explorer that was only released in Japan. Rare, collectible, everyday wearable and an interesting conversation piece to boot.
A cheaper Seiko alternative Space watch ?
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Originally Posted by
SimonK
What about the Seiko Spacewalk - worn by Richard Garriot, the 6th private citizen to go into space - who spent 12 days on ISS.
I've never made any secret of my own favourite space watch, the Yema Spationaute III Aragatz, as worn by French and Russian cosmonautes between 1988 and 1992. Got far too many of the things, so I won't bore readers by posting another photo of them. It's based on the Seiko 7A38 15J quartz movement, by the way.
But I digress. I was searching Yahoo Japan this afternoon, searching on 'Seiko Chronograph' (in Japanese) when I chanced across a listing that included 'NASA SPACE MOVE' in the listing title.
https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/j479031676
The description includes a link to a blog which gives the backstory:
http://synchronar.blogspot.co.uk/201...asa-watch.html
Apparently (if I've understood the Japanese / English translation correctly) these Seiko VD57 chrono's have dials made from a tile (or tiles) from the space shuttle Endeavour.
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oVJz_Jg94...%2BWATCH13.jpg
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xmAvqGDcx...%2BWATCH29.jpg
https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vdmjPWFyK...%2BWATCH21.jpg
(There's loads more photos in the blog article).
Edit: Hmm .... I was thinking where had I seen that before ? The 'Reverse Panda' dialed version bears certain similarities to the sister model to the Spationaute III: Yema's 1989 Flygraf.
http://i1194.photobucket.com/albums/...8/P1470091.jpg