[jyl]

It is interesting to read about how the Omega Speedmaster was chosen by NASA as the astronauts' watch. An engineer at NASA bought various models of watches which were torture tested and the Omega survived. I think the Speedmasters that went into space were standard production models, but am not positive. It's kind of like the NASA Hasselblad and Nikons, but those were specially made for space. I think many models of watch have worn in space, from Russian watches used by the cosmonauts, Casio G-Shocks, Seikos, etc. The watch that I think has the most "space" image today is the Omega X-33.