Omega has presented a short film called Starmen, to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Speedmaster and the 48th anniversary of the first landing on the moon. George Clooney, who has been into space on screen, in Gravity, Solaris and Tomorrowland, converses with his childhood hero Buzz Aldrin in the Electric Cinema Shoreditch, London. They…
1. Omega was chosen by NASA after a gruelling series of tests. The Omega Speedmaster is the only watch approved by NASA for manned space flights. In the early 1960s, the Omega had already been in space, worn by Wally Schirra on his Mercury flight in October 1962, and NASA were considering a watch for…
In 1957, Omega’s objective when designing the Speedmaster chronograph was to create “a new type of chronograph, for research, industry and sport.” From then, it has become part of watch legend, used for space missions from 1965 after its approval by NASA, recording man’s first steps on the moon’s surface on 21 July 1969, and…