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23 NASA Missions Omega Watches for Just $US125,000

9:00AM November 8, 2008 | Jesus Diaz

Absolute. Spacenerdgasm. 23 Omega Speedmaster Watches. In a cool space suitcase. The first is a replica of the original 1957 Speedmaster Broad Arrow, while the next 22 of them are the NASA missions ones, with patches on the 9 O’Clock position from the coolest NASA missions ever. From the 1965 Gemini V launch to the November 1973 Skylab SL-4 mission, and going through the Apollo 11 watch, you have them all:



Gemini VI, Gemini VII, Gemini VIII, Gemini IX, Gemini X, Gemini XI, Gemini XII, Apollo 7, Apollo 8, Apollo 9 “Gumdrop & Spider”, Apollo 10 “Snoopy and Charlie Brown”, Apollo 11 “Columbia and Eagle”, Apollo 12 “Intrepid and Yankee Clipper”, Apollo 13 “Odyssey and Aquarius”, Apollo 14 “Kitty Hawk and Antares”, Apollo 15 “Endeavour and Falcon”, Apollo 16 “Casper and Orion”, Apollo 17 “America and Challenger”, Skylab 1, Skylab 2, and Skylab 3

They are being sold on eBay for $US125,000. To give you an idea of how much these precision time machines are worth, the previous set in the series was sold in Switzerland last year for 368,900 Swiss Francs. A whooping $US313,000 and they are not even the ones that went into space. []

Comments

  • Randomhero

    November 10, 2008 at 4:02 PM

    The clips on the briefcase look like alien heads

  • Jon

    September 23, 2009 at 11:21 PM

    I wondered after looking at these watches….did Omega fit the astronauts with an Omega watch prior to each flight? Did Omega go into space with all these missions?

    • chuck

      November 15, 2011 at 9:01 AM

      Yes, a NASA tech fit each astronaut with the watch that he or she would wear on that flight. Omega is the official watch of the NASA space program, however, I have personally seen and physically delivered to Switzerland, the set of watches described here from past missions. If an astronaut wanted an Omega watch to fly on his/her mission to keep he/she had to buy a watch from Omega at a reduced price. That way the watch did not belong to NASA like the ones that NASA buys from Omega for space flight missions and the astronaut buying the watch could keep it after splashdown.

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