Omega Speedmaster Professional World Timer with sharp

with sharp

and deserves to be remembered and loved by another generation of watch collectors

While in their modern permutation they lack the anti-magnetism with which they were originally designed

Working under a private label arrangement starting in the 1980

an unbelievably rare find on the market

Omega Speedmaster Professional World Timer with sharp"Contact Light." After touching the lander down on the lunar surface, Buzz Aldrin transmitted to Houston control these words, not more than a whisper, the first communication between human beings not concurrently on the same planet. When Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon for the first time, his Speedmaster was in the Lunar Module serving as a backup for its electric timer that had malfunctioned. It was Aldrin who, following Armstrong to become the