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Won't forget the day I set off a radiation detection alarm at a highly sensitive national nuclear site when wearing it...
Cool watch, great story!
@TRA that link pretty much covered the history although the Speedmaster in various guises was also the chosen watch in NASA tests in 1970 and again in 1978. What you mention about legibility in a shaking capsule is quite funny because it played an absolutely critical role in timing 14 second booster thrusts to get the Apollo 13 lunar module on the necessary trajectory to return to Earth when the mission went majorly wrong.
I know it’s a pricey book but Moonwatch Only still gets regular reading and if you can stomach Tom Hanks then the film Apollo 13 is fascinating insight into the madness that is space travel.
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Thanks. It's a beautifully finished watch, without doubt my nicest.
I finally put a macro extension on my camera and tried a few shots this morning.
The dial has patina is covered in little speckles which I believe to be age and possibly degraded tritium lume. Won't forget the day I set off a radiation detection alarm at a highly sensitive national nuclear site when wearing it...