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Photo taken at the exhibition at the University of Oxford History of Science Museum.
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It's a fairly safe bet that this watch was being worn during some significant accomplishments.
The Movado that belonged to my greatest hero, Alan Turing.
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Sadly the first cosmonaut to travel into space more than once was also the first cosmonaut to die during a mission, Vladimir Komarov.
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Marvellous. There's a great post on WUS about the Pobeda's journey and the Smithsonian interviews with Dr. Genin.
https://forums.watchuseek.com/f10/actual-very-first-watch-space-4680659.html
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Sturmanskie would certainly have you believe that Gagarin wore the 1МЧЗ, and in the famous image below it looks more like the Sturmanskie than the Pobeda with the striking 'Chapaev' dial design. It...
A chronograph Accutron Astronaut mentioned in '69 is very intriguing indeed...
Probably worth its own thread. Q&A with DS here: https://www.fratellowatches.com/fratello-watches-qa-with-apollo-15-astronaut-dave-scott/
Indeed. That’s why I said badged rather than re-badged.
I'd quite like the source for that. I don't have time to search at the moment but I seem to recall an image of Ed Mitchell wearing a 1675 in the Lunar Module.
I also find it odd that Scott...
Bin Laden's F-91W
Almost certainly badged as a Strela but I ain’t got one of those.
Leonov's 3017 :smug:
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