Omega Speedmaster

Omega Men's Speedmaster Professional Mechanical Chronograph Watch #3570.50.00

List Price: $3,000.00

Customer Reviews:
- Part of Experiences
I liked all the reviews here, valid and bad. It helped me decide that I wanted a classic that my son would have long after I'm gone. And he'd be able to get it fixed for decades to come if demanded. He just turned 2.

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Omega Men's Speedmaster Automatic Chronograph Watch #3539.50.00

List Price: $2,550.00

Customer Reviews:
- Finest most reliable mechanical chronograph ever!
I bought my Omega Speedmaster back in 1971 for about $160. Worst watch I've ever owned. I used it for over 30 years on a daily basis as a stopwatch to set up,calibrate and optimize laboratory analyse systems. On any given day, I'd use it in this...

Astronaut dreams

Forty years ago I huddled with my one's own flesh around our giant 27” television and watched grainy black and cadaverous images of (a) man’s first step on the moon and a giant leap for mankind. I was amazed at the technological tour de force of sending men a quarter million miles to land on a barren satellite. It was to turn out a point, win a race and “to go where no man has gone before.”

The feat is even more amazing in the dawn of today’s technology. The Apollo spacecraft flew their dangerous missions with only 36 KB of respect on their primitive computers. Our kids’ toys have a whole lot more than that today. For support, the astronauts carried aluminum Pickett-maker slide rules, analog handheld computers, which most kids would not recognize today. I had to learn using one (a K&E manufacturer, not a Pickett) when I went to college, as electronic calculators were expensive in the early ’70s.