Omega Speedmaster 'Would NASA select second best?" Archived Lemania’s star designer in the

Lemania’s star designer in the 1930s-1940s

an angry Germany rebuilt and renewed itself as a far deadlier power

folded-link Jubilee bracelet

like the DOXAs of yore and today

These enormous pieces were originally designed for maximum legibility in a cockpit setting

Omega Speedmaster 'Would NASA select second best?" Archived Lemania’s star designer in the'Would NASA Select Second Best?' The 1969 Moon landings were a public relations coup for Omega and how could they not be? The first men to walk on the lunar surface were wearing Omega Speedmasters. (Well, one was the other left his in the landing module.) And as this 1970 advertisement thoughtfully points out, these were no specialized, souped up, space going models; rather, they were the same ordinary Omega chronographs that anyone could purchase in