Omega Speedmaster Professional Moonwatch & The Space Race

The http://www.buyijoy.com/replica-breitling-bentley-flying-b.html is among the most famous historic watches of all times, and it still happens to be produced today. Here is some more of the "back-story" behind the iconic watch: Chances are that at some point today you��ve used a satellite. Whether TV, phone or internet, your digital footprint will have probably graced the heavens, tossed about by a network of delicate machines that shoot around the ball of rock we call home at over 18,000mph. But, 1,071 successful satellite launches ago, there wasn��t a single man-made device orbiting the Earth. Then, on October 4th, 1957, the starting pistol fired and the Space Race began. The launch of the Soviet Sputnik 1 took replica breitling Bentley Mulliner. Eisenhower by such surprise that he coined the term sputnik crisis in response to Russia��s success. But Sputnik wasn��t the only game-changing creation of 1957; the other was in Switzerland, in the shadow of the Neuchatel mountains: the birth of the Omega Speedmaster. To compliment Omega��s growing reputation for events timing (which included the Olympic Games) the Replica Omega Planet Ocean was designed as a sports chronograph with a tachymeter bezel for calculating speed. Little did Omega know what kind of velocities the Omega Speedmaster would have to endure. The paths of NASA and Omega first crossed in 1962, following Kennedy��s inaugural promise to make an American the first man on the moon. Donald ��Deke�� Slayton, NASA��s head of flight crew operations, had two anonymous NASA officials choose a selection of watches from a Houston jeweler, Corrigan��s, and alongside a Longines Wittnauer, a Rolex Daytona, plus seven others that didn��t make the cut, they picked out an Omega Speedmaster Professional. In a blind twist of fate, their decision to select Omega��s sports watch wasn��t a unique one; in the same year, astronaut Walter ��Wally�� Schirra wore one as a backup for the clock on board his Sigma 7 spacecraft. He found it to perform faultlessly, enjoying it nearly as much as the steak sandwich stowed aboard by friend and fellow astronaut Leroy Gordon ��Gordo�� Cooper. But Slayton��s concern wasn��t of the watch merely being in space; on the moon, the variation in temperature between light and shade was expected to be between -160��C and +120��C, far removed from the relative comfort of Sigma 7��s cockpit. This consideration prompted a series of grueling tests designed to push the three finalists, the Rolex, Longines and Omega, to the breaking point.