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60 years ago... Astronauts with Speedmaster CK2998 In 1963, at least 3 NASA astronauts owned an Omega Speedmaster CK2998 chronograph ; Walter “Wally” Schirra, Donald “Deke” Slayton and Leroy “Gordo” Cooper. Thus far the earliest NASA photo showing the Speedmaster CK2998 on the wrist of an astronaut was dated December 1962 and by June 1963, all three were spotted wearing a Speedmaster. So these could have been CK2998-4, produced late 1961 to 1962. This June 1963 photo shows chief astronaut Donald “Deke” Slayton wearing his personal Omega Speedmaster CK2998 without bezel during jungle survival training in the republic of Panama. Slayton still wore the bezelless Speedmaster as far as June 1965 ! (Photo: NASA)

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1962-1972... a decade Omega Speedmaster in space ! Another year slowly ends but this December 2022 has a special #speedytuesday feeling as 50 years ago Omega watches explicitly thanked NASA for using  their standard production Speedmaster chronographs on successful manned spaceflight missions, the historic lunar landings in particular. 1972, Apollo 17... was only a beginning! (Photo: Omega/MoonwatchUniverse)

2022 End-of-year season... Another year slowly ends but this December has a special #speedytuesday feeling as 50 years ago Omega watches explicitly thanked NASA for using their standard production Speedmaster chronographs on successful manned spaceflight missions, the historic lunar landings in particular. For those going Christmas shopping, keep an eye out for little #MoonwatchUniverse Speedmaster artworks popping up in shop windows in London & Paris (e.g. Somlo vintage Omega in the Burlington Arcade near Piccadilly). (Photo: MoonwatchUniverse)

May 27, 2020... Launch scrub for the SpaceX crew dragon Demo-2 mission at Launch Complex 39A Cape Canaveral - Florida. While SpaceX astronaut Robert Behnknen clearly wore an analog-digital Omega X-33 Speedmaster over the left forearm of his white-grey spacesuit, his colleague astronaut Doug Hurley wore a wristwatch underneath the lefthand glove. However it doesn't look like the rectangular wristwatch he has been wearing during the past two years... so it could also have been an analog-digital Omega X-33 Speedmaster . (Photo: NASA/SpaceX)

From 1963 onwards, NASA astronauts were allowed to wear the Jacoby Bender Champion steel mesh bracelet. This kind of lightweight bracelet could be easily torn apart if the astronaut got stuck with his wrist in the cockpit or capsule. These steel mesh bracelets became the ultimate accessory for 1960s pilotwatches and were worn until the 1990s Space Shuttle missions. In December 2019, this vintage model of steel mesh bracelet was re-issued by Forstnerbands.com (Photo: MoonwatchUniverse)

Skylab-4 training at the Apollo Telescope Mount (ATM) display and control panel mock-up in the one-G trainer for the Multiple Docking Adapter (MDA) at Johnson Space Center in Houston Terxas. This September 10, 1973 photo shows SL-4 pilot William Pogue and science pilot Edward Gibson going over checklists. Note that Pogue wore his personal Seiko 6139 automatic chronograph and GIbson wore his personal Omega Speedmaster Mark II chronograph with tachymètre bezel sitting in flat glass. (Photo: NASA)