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Hello Everyone....

I am still running around like crazy.  I am still going thru all my photos and videos from the Omega press event from last week.

The above video Omega shown at the press event for the 40th annv. of the moon landing.   I shot it with my digital STILL camera without the use of a tripod.

I thought it was very well done...

In 1969 I was living in NYC and about 6 years old !   I remember the launch of Apollo 11 and watching the landing on TV.

Stay tuned for more !!

Good Hunting

Bill Sohne


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...as I wouldn't make an appearance on the scene until the next decade, but I like your video very much!  It seems as though we are enjoying more videos on the forum lately, which is festive.  The Speedmaster is so iconic, and just a fantastic watch.  My only quibble with the 40th Anniversary Edition is that I'm not sure how I feel about the medallion on the subsidiary seconds dial.  Otherwise, it's still a beloved classic!

Cheers,
Daos

I lived in a small town in Austria and I "watched every step" on TV.

It was a very exciting decade - not only because of the space mission - music, politics, ....

I enjoyed this decade very much!

best

erich

I was two years old living in Manchester in the UK, five years or so away from my first watch which was a Timex. I was too young to remember the journey to the moon, but I still think to go from the Wright Brothers to the moon in the same century is an amazing testiment to mans ingenuity and determination.

Cheers

David

On the 23rd i slipped out of my mom's belly .... what ??? I'm two days late ??? Those guys are already on their way back ? Luckily i lived to see the landing of the Apollo XI at sea one day later Cheers, Filip

NT

I was 15, living in Queens, New York (I now live in the Mile High City of Denver - ROCK!!), and the Mets were on their way to the World Series and a championship (in the Fall of that year).  Omega rocks, I am half-Swiss and had an aunt who worked for the big 'O' in Bienne.  I had a Seamaster, solid back, and everything fell out of the front of the watch one day (you don't give an Omega to a fifteen-year old!).  Wish I still had it.  Now I have a Speedy with the 1164/ETA-Valjoux 7750 movement, and have had and sold 2 Seamasters (2255.80), and if I sell my Speedy I might actually buy (oh no!) a Rolex Sub.  Co-axial (8500) doesn't have me convinced (yet).  Anyway, I remember the moon landing and all that, simply amazing (even more so than the freakin' Mets).  We were fighting a war in Vietnam (hell no, we won't go...), Woodstock wuz happening somewhere (peace and love..), and high school sucked, except for the girls, cool.

Enjoy!     =:^D

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It was in the middle of the night / early morning in the Netherlands and the tension was building up contineously -first the landing itself, then the EVA.

I even considered putting my just 1 year old daughter in front of the television with her cradle but realized in time this would not do her any good, besides upsetting her mother.

After some military flying experience I was training at the time for a civil instrument rating and was scheduled for a session in the socalled 'Link trainer' the next morning. Missing a normal night's sleep and feeling totally 'drained' I consequently overslept and didn't show up. This did cost me an official reprimand but somehow I never regretted it and wouldn't have missed it for the world!

 Ben.

 

This message has been edited by B.de.Geus3 on 2009-06-11 04:32:52

(communist economics that was......), wore an old glashuette watch ( no, not the flieger chrono), watched west german television; listened to AFN in west berlin; played in a band; watched the moon landing, yes; had a very good time without any worries; no Aids; no taboos; vibrant times with plenty of girls and friends and had no idea, that i would  escape east germany the following year..... and buy my first speedmaster 1980 in melbourne, australia. it was a very exiting time and i´m glad, that i lived it. kind regards from down under. achim

and my girlfriend had stopped by.  We were in fact getting frisky on the couch when I called a halt to the proceedings to watch Armstrong walk on the moon.  She didn't seem to think much of it, but I was electrified. I will never forget Armstrong's first step onto the moon, nor his words, "That's one small step for man, one (ssstatic)iant leap for Mankind."  I can see it like it was yesterday.

I lost touch with that lovely young woman, and don't know where she is now. She'd be in her '60s, probably a grandmother.  Sandy, are you out there?

Kissing my first girlfriend?

Dreaming about myt next watch?

1969, you said?

Heeeeerm, was just 4 years old, in May...

A bit too young for these pleasures...

Aaah, yes, I remember...

Watching at the sky, a beautiful one, alone, admiring the stars, with a nice cigar...



Best,

Nicolas

One of my "coming of age" summers. A lot happened, but I'll never forgot watching the moonwalk outdoors on the beach down in Baja California, a small black and white television hooked up to a car battery, and a group family and friends sitting on makeshift bleachers watching it as the moon shined down on us.
The juxtaposition of seeing the walk on TV and looking up at the actual moon was pretty special.

as far as where I was in 1969, well, I was not to be born for another 4 years.

Cheers

Pedro

. . . where my Dad was working in the oil industry . . . his boss had all the ex-pats over at his house the night of Apollo XI's return, and I remember tracking the re-entry with binoculars . . . reminiscently, Art

Hi Bill,

Thanks for the trip down memory lane.  1969 was a fantastic year for me.  My fiance and I both finished college in June, and were married two weeks later.  It was the start of a very "long and pleasantly memorable relationship". 

Bill, I loved your RG co-axle Omega.  Wish I had kept it, but opportunity knocked, and I had to use it to trade for another "must have" piece.

Cheers,  Frederick

Hi

I missed the rg co-ax as well...

1969....  I already wanted my brothers Speedy Pro!!

Best

Bill

so this year is also my big anniversary so am looking for the special gift to myself...!!!!  Any idea's..??

I have a 292 on the way but not sure when this year so any idea's on something else would be great - and yes I am considering a speedy..!!  In fact I would be grateful of a side on pic of a plexi against a sapphire front but I would definately want a display back as I would want to see the movement..!!

Yours,

Andy.

but nevethless Sppedy is one of my all time favorite pieces

and the watch that got me into all this :0))

My deep study of horology started when I saw Speemaster in watchmakers shop

The adrenaline rush was awesome

 

Best

Damian

....it would be several years after the Apollo 11 before I appeared....not that it matters, the whole thing was a hoax anyway, even the Swiss were in on it 

just two years old I remember watching Armstrong's firsts steps on the Moon.....
At least I think so. My mother insisted that I watched it and that I remember it- I am not going to contradict her lol
Great video and great post
Cheers

the landing was early hours of the morning GMT so i was tucked up with my teddy and dreaming of who knows what.

Nicolas, i think you might have been 5 not 4 if you were born in 64, but whats a year in a lifetime

Andy, you know what you need. it speaks for its self. the most iconic chronograph ever made. used for something very special the year you were born. you've got to buy a 69 speedy pro, far better to spend your money on that than a Pam ( oops sorry to pam fans). then you need to get a display back so you can appreciate the beautiful movement. i got mine yesterday and i'll take pics in a minute.

Ben made an interesting point. are there any here on this forum that believe it might have been a conspiracy? we must accept that anything is possible. this could be the most appropriate forum to discuss it on as there is a distinct connection to Omega and NASA.

best

Graham

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Around 60 years old Id say ?

Hi Bill,

Thanks for the video...i'd always thought that i was born too late...tend to admire the things before much more than what they have now. Life could have been so much more exciting for me if i were to be born in the 60s perhaps? ...well just my thoughts. I think watches from the 90s are the most beautiful though...most of them if not all. And cars from the 60s 70s and 80s....wow...simply beautiful.....And that 80s and 90s musics and songs,both English and Chinese, just smooth and talk bout romance i guess they are the best.

Memory lane...for me its just up to 1984...and this generation of my daily driver was also born in 1984

 

 

 

 

Regards,

Jacky