Category Space Watches

On Saturday China’s first female astronaut went into space aboard the Shenzhou-9 spacecraft. The mission is to dock with an orbiting station, the latest part of an ambitious programme to go to the moon and then on to Mars. Fiyta’s Aeronautics Collection served as timekeeper for the space mission again. Fiyta is the only…

Just launched the Omega Spacemaster Z-33 watch, its powered by a new multifunction thermo-compensated quartz movement – calibre 5666. Like their X-33 speedmaster model it combines analog and digital displays. The digital display provides self-programmable professional pilot functions as well as date, UTC and two time zones, also a chronograph function and a countdown…

The Fiyta Spacemaster was worn by astronaut Zhai Zhigang on the 29 September 2008 on the first spacewalk by a Chinese astronaut. This is the third space watch by Fiyta having developed two earlier watches for previous manned space missions by Chinese taikonauts, since 2003 having worked jointly with the Astronaut Centre of China.…

Probably the most famous of all Space watches, the Omega Speedmaster was qualified by NASA in 1965 for all manned space missions. It was the first watch to be worn on the moon when Buzz Aldrin famously landed there in 1969. Early in the 1960’s a NASA employee anonymously bought a selection of potential…

Fortis Cosmonauts Chronograph Fortis was chosen to be the exclusive supplier of space watches for manned space missions by the Russian Federal Space Agency since 1994. Fortis decided on an automatic chronograph for their space watch, and in order to see whether a self-winding movement could keep accurate time in space it was subjected…

Sturmanskie Gagarin chronograph. The Sturmanskie was the very first watch worn in space and this model is named after of course the first man in space, Russian Yuri Gagarin. The Sturmanskie still holds the record for a space watch that has spent the longest time in zero gravity conditions. So its just as worthy…

Seiko Spring Drive Spacewalk – specially designed and built to accompany the first private individual to conduct a spacewalk. Seiko wanted to become involved with creating a space watch because of the technical challenges it presented. The challenge for the Seiko engineers was to create a space watch that would be able to have…

Jack Swigert April 11, 1970 Apollo XIII Although not a NASA certified space watch the GMT Master proved it had the ‘right stuff’ when Jack Swigert wore his Rolex GMT Master on the Apollo XIII mission in April 1970. It was also worn by Ron Evans, Mission Command Module Pilot of Apollo XVII and …

Like the G-Shock the Ironman is a watch that has a reputation for toughness. Because of this it was chosen by astronauts and certified by NASA for space missions, it has accompanied astronauts and Russian cosmonauts to outer space. From the Timex sponsorship of the Ironman Triathlon event came the eventual partnership and the…

When it was first launched the G Shock was developed to be the ultimate tough watch. Casio engineers followed a development concept called “Triple 10” aiming to create a watch that could withstand a ’10-meter’ free fall, have ’10-bar’ water resistance and a ’10 year’ battery life. They reached 200 prototypes before they achieved…

Scott Carpenter May 24th 1962 Aurora 7 When Scott Carpenter wore his Breitling Navitimer on the Aurora 7 Mission in May 1962 it was the first (known) watch worn by an American in space. This was the first watch used in Space featuring a 24 hour display which was useful since an astronauts day…

John Glenn February 20th 1962 Friendship 7 John Glenn was the first American to Orbit Earth , he wore a Tag Heuer Stop Watch which had been modified with elastic bands so that it would fit over the spacesuit. This Heuer stopwatch served as a “backup clock” for the timing instruments aboard Friendship 7 and…