Fresh from the Showcase here at SwissWatchExpo. We're talking about space flights today. That
means we must be talking about a Moon watch. So let's check it out.
This new arrival was one of the most excited, or I've been more excited about this new arrival
than I think any we've gotten recently. Of course, it's a Moonwatch. This particular
one has a meteorite dial and some of you Speedy heads right now are probably
pretty well versed in this one, but we have a 2010 edition here, which commemorates
the American NASA and Soviet Soyuz space flight in 1975, which was the first time I believe that
those two collaborated on a space mission. And this is a watch commemorating that incredibly
momentous event, 35th anniversary, in fact, and it's the first Moonwatch to have a meteorite dial.
Not the last, some people may be familiar with the gray side of the moon edition.
That's a beautiful, modern looking one. This is a lot more in keeping with the traditional
Speedmaster. And of course, because it is commemorating another space mission.
That is exactly what you could expect. There's a few things different about this beginning
into the mission itself. I love a few things about this watch. It has both script written
in Latin and Cyrillic to commemorate both teams. Uh, both teams have astronauts or cosmonauts,
depending on how you look at it. One interesting fact about the mission
while they were up there for two days was not aware that both the American and the Soviet
astronauts were both wearing Moonwatch is on this mission. So I think it is
great that they both included the script in both English and Russian to commemorate all
of those brave men who went up there, all of them wearing Moonwatches while they did it.
This particular one of course, the first thing you're going to notice it has a meteorite
dial. That's always going to be a scene stealer with any time piece they put it on.
It's cut from a single piece of meteorite, which I find interesting. And I'm not sure how they were
able to get these two different color tones on the dial. As you see, we'll have a much more darker,
very dark, almost a black type of finish on the on the dial itself. And the subtitles are in a much
more, a traditional silvery type of color, which is a lot more in keeping with the other meteorite
dials I've seen in the past. But that's one of the things that makes this incredibly unique.
Other than that, a lot of things had come in with the Speedmaster 42 millimeter case.
Of course, you do have this ceramic ring around the bezel here. We do have the pumper style
pushers and of course the high polish crown here. Many things that you'll know and love
from the Moonwatch. Again, it wouldn't be a moon watch if they departed very far away from that.
But otherwise, one of the things you'll notice that sets this apart is it does have a sapphire
crystal and anti-reflective sapphire crystal, in fact, and that's one of the things that makes this
unique. You really never know what you're going to get crystal wise with these special edition
NASA commemorative ones. A lot of them and keeping with the traditional Moonwatch keeps
the Hezbollah. This one keeps the sapphire, which I'm a big fan of, and it is have a very great
anti-reflective coating on it, which I think makes it great for a tool watch type of chronograph too.
That's definitely keeping in heritage, what this has meant to commemorate. This is the second
edition of the Speedmaster that celebrates the Apollo Soyuz collaboration. The first one actually
commemorated the mission itself and was released in 1975. That was limited to 500 pieces. That's
one of the rarest vintage chronographs you can get your hands on. So believe me, if we ever do,
you'll be seeing a video on that one as well. This one, like most of you would expect,
is limited to the year that it was, the year it was commemorating. So there is a 1,975 pieces,
that were ever produced. So this is still a very, very rare watch, especially in the modern game.
This is going to be a lot, lot harder to find as the years go by. One of the things that makes this
the most unique, not just the dial, but if you flip it over, we do have this beautiful case back.
You can always expect the case back on these special additions to be special, but I think
this has probably some of the most character and it's probably the most intricate, I think I've
seen. This actually has a engraving commemorating the actual docking of these two space vessels.
And so you're actually basically seeing the highlight of the mission itself, commemorated
on the back of this case, we have both the Apollo written in Latin and Soyuz written in
Cyrillic, which of course is commemorating both teams of cosmonauts and astronauts who
went up there. And so you're going to see both the names of the three
NASA astronauts and the name of the two Soyuz cosmonauts that are engraved on the back as well.
Also you have space flight and of course, the date and the limited edition number that this one is.
So a lot going on on this case back. And again, you flip this, watch over. If you're the proud
owner of it, I'm sure you're going to be spending almost as much time looking at the back of it
as you are the front. It also has this fantastic commemorative box here. This one's in great
condition and you also have a card commemorating the mission and giving you a lot of historical
details about that as well. This is a collector's edition watch for the Omega collector or for the
space fanatic. And I know there's a lot of you out there that loves collecting these Moon watches.
It's also just a really impressive example. And of course it's a rare watch. It's a limited edition.
It's not like they're making more of them. So if you're interested in getting this on your wrist,
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