The most famous space watch is undoubtedly the luxury Omega Speedmaster replica watches. So famous, in fact, it is one of the very few iconic timepieces that enjoy instant recognition well beyond watch aficionados.
What is not as well known, however, is the extreme tests NASA put the original 321 Speedmaster through. At the start of its Gemini program in 1961, NASA realized its astronauts needed AAA UK fake watches that could deal with the extreme temperatures and g-forces experienced during space flight. So, in October 1964, watch manufacturers were contacted and asked to submit high quality replica watches they felt would work for space missions. Only four brands were brave enough to heed the call: Hamilton, Rolex, Longines, and Omega.
NASA immediately dismissed Hamilton’s entry, as the company had somewhat bafflingly submitted not a wristwatch but pocket best copy watches. The space agency then put the remaining Rolex, Longines, and Omega entries through 11 tests designed to simulate conditions in space and on the moon itself.
These durability tests included spending 48 hours at 70°C then 30 minutes at 93°C, then four hours at –18°C; fifteen 45-minute cycles alternating between 71°C and –18°C; acceleration from a standstill to 7.25 g’s within five minutes, then 16 g’s for 30 seconds, along three axes; vibration from 5 to 2,000 Hz along three axes, with acceleration of at least 8.8 g’s; and decompression for 90 minutes in a near vacuum at 10-6 atmospheres.
The Rolex and Longines both failed at the high temperature trials, but the Omega kept working through all 11 tests, and it was duly awarded NASA’s certification. Fitting, then, that it makes our list below of the select group of Swiss made Omega fake watches connected with spacefaring adventures.
Replica Omega Speedmaster Moonwatches Professional
If nothing else, Jeff Bezos’ 11-minute joyride to the edge of space in July demonstrated the statement-making power particular wrist perfect fake watches can still carry. Perhaps with an eye on both posterity and his quest for a contract to ferry NASA astronauts to the moon, Bezos strapped on the most famous watch of the space age, wholesale replica Omega Speedmaster Moonwatches Professional—the legendary timepiece of Apollo lunar missions, Armstrong, Aldrin, et al.
Outwardly unchanged since the 1960s, the Moonwatch remains the definitive timepiece for armchair astronauts and prospective space tourists alike, and it has this year benefited from a major upgrade to its hand-wound movement, bringing it in line with the stringent modern demands for accuracy and anti-magnetism of top Swiss Omega super clone watches’ Master Chronometer designation.
Fun fact: The Moonwatch is the only flight-qualified replica Omega watches paypal suitable for extravehicular activity. Quartz watches, especially those with LCD displays, are extremely vulnerable to temperature changes and so are entirely unsuitable for spacewalks.