Omega Speedmaster 'Would NASA Select Second Best?' Desk with the inserts on the

with the inserts on the bezel--originally blue and red

this particular Sub features a sapphire crystal (the first ever used on a Submariner)

who sent it back to Tissot’s headquarters for maintenance just before the outbreak of the Russian Revolution

split the atom

While the noteworthy Seamaster line was being driven largely by Omega's automatic movements

Omega Speedmaster 'Would NASA Select Second Best?' Desk with the inserts on the1970 Omega Speedmaster '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