Omega has announced a new version of its celebrated Speedmaster watch, one that pays overt tribute to its space-age legacy.

On. Oct. 11, 1968, Apollo 7 launched into space with NASA astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele and Walter Cunningham. This ...

Seven years before the moon landing, in 1962, astronaut Walter “Wally” Schirra wore his personal Speedmaster during the Sigma 7 mission of the Mercury program, giving that model its own place ...

Wally Schirra acquired his interest in flying and sophisticated machinery by inheritance. His father, a retired engineer, now 68. was a bomber pilot in World War I who was shot down over the ...

The CK2998 Speedy was Schirra’s personal watch, and the decision to wear it on the mission was his alone. The ref. CK2998 Speedmaster worn by astronaut Wally Schirra in 1962 was the first Omega watch ...

If you are familiar with how government projects work today, you’ll smile when you read that [Wally Schirra] just bought the original 500C at a local camera store. However, it wasn’t suitable ...

NASA astronaut Walter “Wally” Schirra famously wore the second-gen Speedy on the Mercury-Atlas 8: Sigma 7 mission of 1962, earning it the title of “first Omega in Space.” Omega did drop a ...

Released in 1959, before Omega’s Speedmaster was selected by NASA to outfit its astronauts, the CK 2998 was worn by astronaut Walter “Wally” Schirra on the Sigma 7 mission of the Mercury ...

So we have Wally Schirra, Gus Grissom, Alan Shepard, John Glenn, all those. They're a little faded, but, uh, my father knew these guys. Did you ever get a chance to personally meet any of these ...

December 15-16: Wally Schirra and Thomas Stafford fly Gemini 6 within a few feet of Borman and Lovell in Gemini 7, for the first true rendezvous in space. January: Sergei Korolov, the driving ...