Welcome to Dialed In, Esquire's weekly column bringing you horological happenings and the most essential news from the watch world since March 2020. With a watch whose design DNA was effectively ...
The Ref. BA 145.022 was given to the first man on the moon at a gala dinner in Houston’s Warwick Hotel on November 25, 1969, mere months after Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the lunar surface.
In the late fifties, Omega didn’t build the Speedmaster with space on its mind. Instead, with a far more terrestrial orientation, and as the name suggests, it was designed as a chronograph with a ...
In 1962, Walter Schirra was the first astronaut to wear an Omega chronograph watch in space during the Mercury-Atlas 8 mission. The company’s watches were also worn during the first spacewalks, but ...
Our review of this rare piece continues after the jump. Beyond its use as mandatory equipment in the Apollo program, the Speedmaster Professional made for an apt companion for other adventurous men in ...
Tomorrow I will board my first international flight of 2014, kicking off another year of frequent travel. On my wrist will be by Omega Speedmaster Moonwatch Professional, more commonly known as the ...
This watch will make an astronomical addition to your collection. Neil Armstrong’s 1969 Omega Speedmaster Professional is hitting the auction block next month via RR Auction, with an out-of-this-world ...
The Omega Speedmaster Professional Moonwatch has received arguably the most dramatic update since the 1960s with the addition of the Caliber 3861 Master Chronometer movement. The new movement for the ...