How about the worlds most pointless chronograph, the sixty second timing automatic flyback Omega Chronostop. Thirty years earlier, it would have been the perfect solution to the problem solved by...
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How about the worlds most pointless chronograph, the sixty second timing automatic flyback Omega Chronostop. Thirty years earlier, it would have been the perfect solution to the problem solved by...
I really am getting far too sensitive in my dotage. Thanks for pointing that out.
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Thank you, the watch is tiny, but very very pretty on the wrist.
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Scott never flew again, but worked hard to rehabilitate himself. Of course he knew what the watch was. He'd worn an Accutron Astronaut for years, he'd been approached by the company...
Just to get the other non radioactive version in, here's the watch worn by Илья Курякин:
https://i.postimg.cc/bwsKd3bq/uncle-7-zpsjbooictv.jpg
Longines/Wittnauer Weems MkI:
https://i.postimg.cc/sgqYw87v/Weems-1.jpg
As worn by pretty well anyone who flew anywhere in the thirties and actually arrived. It wasn't just a watch, it was a...
First spacewalk (in export version):
https://i.postimg.cc/wT4W7WWL/IMG-2313.jpg
So with the preceding in mind, here's a picture of the very first watch in space:
https://i.postimg.cc/C5Hh2gb4/pobeda-in-space.jpg
A 1МЧЗ Pobeda 34-K, on the collar of Chernushka in Sputnik 4...
The reason that the Bulova Chrono wasn't accepted was that, Ironically, it failed the NASA procurement criteria that the watch had to be 51% American made. Thanks to the long standing relationship...
Thanks for the adhominem. Now go and read up about the behaviour of Bulova during this period.
I think I’ll invoke the little known second half of Ockham formulation: ‘beyond necessity’. In this...
If you say so, then I'm probably wrong as I was trusting memory - I'll double check. Do you have an easy picture?
I don't deny that, but you may want to look into the complexities of Bulova's relationship with NASA and the vast effort they went to to get bulova back on Astronaut's wrists. Because this:
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Of course they do. However, it's less often that they are persuaded to do so by a major American corporation that was supplying NASA but lost the contract and was desperate, in several ways, to get...
I’ve always been a bit suspicious of this. He’s the only one who took a reserve watch and the only one to have a watch fail. I remember doing a research methods course that included a bit on the...
Wittnauer Allproof:
https://i.postimg.cc/cLbd7Nvy/IMG-0725.jpg
As worn by Jimmy Mattern and, of course Neil Armstrong during his Gemini flight:
https://i.postimg.cc/W1Rndd7Q/gemini82.jpg
World's first mass market quartz watch:
https://i.postimg.cc/dtgRmp78/3823.jpg