Meaningful And Unique Omega Watches

In 1970, NASA issued the “Silver Snoopy Award” to Omega in order to commend omega's contribution to the Apollo Program. As the favorite character in the cartoon called “Peanuts” and mascot of NASA, the “Snoopy” image was emblazoned on the dial and back of new Omega Speedmaster watches in memory of the award.

On April 17 of 1970, “Apollo 13” Command Module landed safely on the Pacific Ocean, which was concerned by millions of people. However, before the successful landing, the spacecraft ran into a space accident 200,000 miles away from the earth. “Apollo 13” was the seventh manned space flight mission and the third moon mission of Apollo Program, but it had to suspend because two oxygen storage tanks exploded during the flight. Finally, after the astronauts completed a series of orbit corrections, the spacecraft moved into the right track and re-entered the earth atmosphere.

To show respect to the unforgettable space mission, Omega launches the Speedmaster Apollo 13 Snoopy Limited watches in memory of the team cooperation, cleverness and courage. Besides, owing to the smart qualities, Jim Lovell who was the commander of the “Apollo 13”, Jack Swiger who was the pilot of the command module, and Fred Haise who was the pilot of the lunar module returned home safely.

The inspiration design of the watches are from the black and white comic originally printed in the newspaper, and the strong contrast sense of black and white makes the reading obvious and clear. On the white dial, the hands are shown with black color, and the hands are covered with Super-LumiNova luminous coating as well as speed measuring scales on the bezel, which make the watches dazzling in the dark.

Especially, under the 14 small square frames of 0 to 14 seconds, the sentence of “What could you do in 14 seconds?” is printed in order to praise the actions of astronauts of Apollo 13 to correct the track within 14 seconds. Moreover, the centre of the dial is decorated with letters of “Failure is not an option” in memory of the astronauts’ spirit, which makes the watches meaningful and worth collecting.