POST EDIT: Omega’s Speedmaster ’57 watch is back with new collection featuring eight editions
- The Omega Speedmaster ’57, released in 2013 and inspired by the first watch on the moon, is returning with eight brand new editions
- All feature a master chronometer upgrade and offer a manual-winding movement that allows for a slimmer profile with its thinner case and finer bezel
Since its debut in 1957, Omega’s Speedmaster has had an indisputable history-making trajectory.
Though the famous watch was originally designed for motor racing by the Swiss designer Claude Baillod, it has since gone on to become much better known for its role in outer space – most notably, as the first watch on the moon.
Back in the 1960s, the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) invited different watch manufacturers around the world to submit chronograph models for its manned missions into space.
Omega offered up the Speedmaster. It was the only watch to pass Nasa’s extensive thermal, shock, vibration and vacuum tests, and thus became the first watch to be declared as “flight qualified for all manned space missions”, in 1965.
The watch went on to be worn by astronauts in all six lunar missions, including when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to land on the moon during the Apollo 11 mission in 1969.