Space Themed Watches / So Long Shuttle

[abem]

So long space shuttle, it's been good to know ya.

In remembrance of the shuttle and of a time when the future was still cool and full of promise, tomorrow I'll wear my 1977 Texas Instruments Space Shuttle Enterprise LED watch:




Anyone else have other NASA or space themed watches?

-abe.

[jones38]

Cool vintage watch. Wear it with pride!

[jones38]

Cool vintage watch. Wear it with pride.

[Seiko7A38]

Anyone else have other NASA or space themed watches?

Yes, but they're not digitals, but analogue quartz chrono's.
I've got 5 different versions of the Yema Spationaute III (a Seiko 7A38 variant produced by Yema / C.G.H.).
The 43mm Ø blue-faced version was worn by Jean-Loup Chrétien on the 1988 Soviet-French Soyuz-Mir mission code-named 'Aragatz':





This one is an early production version, that I purchased as 'new old stock':



This is a 'bitza' I re-built from an ex-eBay 'beater' around a rare factory prototype dial:



Note the hand-painted mission flags, instead of the Yema logo.

[Seiko7A38]

Yema, of course, produced LCD watches in the 70's, in conjunction with semiconductor company Fairchild.
But it wasn't until their take-over by Matra in 1982 that they got involved in the French space missions.
During that period they produced the ana-digi Spationaute (I) and II. These are much sought after by French collectors.
If you google 'Yema Spationaute', you'll find plenty of threads on French space / watch forums.
The Spationaute III was produced in 1988, after Yema were bought out by C.G.H. (Compagnie Générale Horlogère)
- Seiko's French subsidiary; hence the use of a (re-branded) Seiko 7A38 movement in the Spationaute III.



But I'm surprised no-one has mentioned the Seiko A829-xxxx LCD, used by some of the crews of Shuttle missions:

[Caruso]

Not so much use for LEO, but for proper deep space exploration what could be better than the Casio CGW-50 Cosmo Phase watch?

[retroleds]

Yeah, yeah, the Falcon is not a Space Shuttle. And in this case it is just a fancy watch box. Still pretty cool, imo.






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[abem]

Neat. I do like that Casio Cosmo Phase watch and the Seiko with the blue bezel.

The "Yes" watch is also a nifty space themed digital watch, if a little pricey:


-abe.