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by dingaling
3721 days ago
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> Take the Omega Speedmaster 105.003 An interesting example. If they had been assembled under license by a little-known NASA contracted-company in Illinois, would you still be as keen on it? Until 1979 Soviet cosmonauts used their standard pilot-issue Strela watch, including on EVAs. In the West it was branded and sold as Sekonda[0]. Without the cachet of a luxury brand and extensive marketing it is almost unknown despite being just as functional as the Speedmaster. http://www.netgrafik.ch/russian_space_watches.htm [0] The Sekonda trademark was later sold and today has no connection with the original watch |
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Yes, the brand doesn't hold a lot of meaning for me - in any case (no pun intended) it's not just Omega. Arguably one of the most important parts - he movement itself, wasn't actually designed by Omega. It's a Lemania Calibre 1873 (Omega branded this as Calibre 861).
Extreme temperatures, vibration, pressure, acceleration, shock and so on; the 1873 enclosed within an Omega case survived all of this with +- 5 seconds per day accuracy. Moreover, it outperformed the qualification conditions against other well-funded, experienced watch makers. For me, this is impressive.
If the same watch was built by a little-known company out of Illinois, I'd be even more impressed!
P.S. Thanks very much for the information on Soviet watches, I'm really interested to learn more about these models. Thanks again!