This Apollo 17 45th Anniversary LE stainless steel piece could be the speediest Speedy ever. Barely had it been featured on the blog, an offer was made and it was netted into a Speedy enthusiast's remarkable collection in a wink of the eye.
This collection was launched during Baselworld 2017, and consisted of 2 models- stainless steel (with bracelet), and solid gold (with leather strap). They were supposedly sold-out within a short span of time, with the solid gold version allocated for Omega's VIP collectors. The solid gold version was limited to 272 pieces, while the stainless steel to 1,972 pieces.
The numbers referred to December 1972, when NASA's final Apollo mission ended with its Commander Gene Cernan stepping from the moon into the Lunar module. Commander Cernan passed away in 2017, and the model was a befitting tribute to the "The Last Man On The Moon". As of today, his footprint was still the last of mankind's made on moon surface, and his transcript with NASA was re-produced on the presentation box.
(NB : There were 2 versions of the box- an earlier batch with "mankind" misspelt as "manking" at the bottom right of the box, and a subsequent corrected version. As seen in the above example, mine was the corrected version.)
The Last Man On The Moon was a special piece, with the following :
- it utilised ceramic material for the bezel and dial, and infused with its ceragold;
- tachymetre bezel started its measurement at 450 instead of 500 like the rest of the moon watch;
- the GMT time in red on the dial represented the time Gene ended the transmission from the moon and stepped into the Lunar Module;
- Apollo the Sun God could be seen in the 9 o'clock sub-dial, over-looking to the moon and with 17 noted there;
- elements of Speedy Racing indexes on a moon watch.
The Last Man On The Moon was a special piece, with the following :
- it utilised ceramic material for the bezel and dial, and infused with its ceragold;
- tachymetre bezel started its measurement at 450 instead of 500 like the rest of the moon watch;
- the GMT time in red on the dial represented the time Gene ended the transmission from the moon and stepped into the Lunar Module;
- Apollo the Sun God could be seen in the 9 o'clock sub-dial, over-looking to the moon and with 17 noted there;
- elements of Speedy Racing indexes on a moon watch.
Since China National Space Administration (CNSA) just landed its unmanned Chang'e 4 spacecraft on the dark side of the moon, I wonder if Omega could work with CNSA to issue an LE based on this historical moment.
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