OMEGA celebrates five decades of lunar adventures with new Speedmaster Apollo 11 50th Anniversary Limited Editions

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Half a century after OMEGA’s Speedmaster accompanied astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on their historic Moon Landing in July 1969, the iconic ‘Moonwatch’ has been gloriously updated for the next space chapter.
A space odyssey
The Swiss watchmaker’s first venture beyond planet Earth took place in 1962 when astronaut Walter Schirra wore his personal OMEGA Speedmaster on the Sigma 7 mission of the Mercury programme in October 1962.
So, it came as no surprise that the Speedmaster got on the shortlist when NASA started searching for a watch for its the upcoming Apollo programme to the moon. James Ragan, aerospace engineer and NASA’s man behind the Moonwatch, subjected the Speedmaster ST 105.003 to 11 extreme tests before giving it his stamp of approval.
On March 1, 1965, NASA declared the Speedmaster “Flight Qualified for all Manned Space Missions”. From then on, OMEGA remains the only supplier of watches for NASA’s Human Space Flight Program with the Speedmaster still in use for space flight today.