An 18-karat gold version of the first watch worn on the moon has set a record for the most paid for an astronaut's timepiece.

a combination timepiece-stopwatch built by Omega to be water-resistant, shock-proof, and able to withstand 12 Gs of acceleration. Most impressive of all: It had flown on Apollo 11, the first ...

A gold watch gifted to Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Amstrong following his ... The 18-karat solid yellow gold Omega Speedmaster Professional chronograph wristwatch was gifted to him at a Houston ...

Produced to mark mankind’s triumph beyond the skies, Neil Armstrong's Apollo 11 Omega watch is a timepiece crucial within ...

BA 145.022) was part of a series of 26 gold Speedmaster watches created by OMEGA for NASA astronauts. Armstrong’s watch, engraved with “Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, Gemini 8 – Apollo 11 ...

One of Omega’s first gold Speedmasters ... Armstrong, Gemini 8 – Apollo 11” engraved on the caseback with the phrase “To mark man’s conquest of space with time, through time, on time ...

Indelibly associated with Nasa’s Apollo programme that put man on the moon, Omega’s Speedmaster is both an untouchable icon of pure functional design and a canvas for more creative interpretations, ...