Well-Preserved Vintage UK Swiss Made Replica Omega Watches Unveiled
UK Luxury Top Replica Omega Speedmaster Awarded to Apollo 9 Astronaut Russell Schweickart
I am totally cheating with a lot from a USA-based auction house, but Heritage Auctions out of Dallas, Texas has a very cool 1:1 wholesale replica Omega Speedmaster watches up for grabs. The gold and burgundy bezelled 145.022 – 69 is already a cool watch on its own, but the provenance of this particular one is the icing on the cake. This high quality fake Omega watches, No. 25, was presented to Apollo 9 Astronaut Russell Schweickart, as revealed by its caseback engraving. Schweickart’s extensive resume includes being an aeronautical engineer, research scientist, U.S. Air Force fighter pilot and astronaut, and the Lunar Module Pilot on the Apollo 9 mission in 1969 (which is why he was awarded the watch, given to those who walked on the moon and made the lunar landing possible).
“The event in which we were given the watches by Omega was in November of 1969,” Schweickart explains to Heritage Auctions. “It was just after the Apollo 12 mission. We had all been wearing AAA perfect Omega copy watches, but they were the silver ones. They gave out the watches to those of us who were at the event, honouring our service, and landing on the moon and everything that led up to it.”
Schweickart claims he wore it regularly up until he witnessed a fellow pilot get his wedding ring caught while exiting a plane. After that, Schweickart stopped wearing any jewellery. “I stopped wearing jewellery altogether, UK best online replica watches and everything else,” Schweickart told Heritage Auctions. “So mine ended up in a drawer, frankly, just stored, and I lost track of it for a long time… I would say pretty close to 50 years. I thought I’d lost it, and it was only earlier this year, to be honest with you, when I rediscovered it. No, I hadn’t lost it… That was quite a shock.” As a result, it is worn enough to give it character, but the five decades it spent in a drawer have certainly frozen the cheap super clone watches in time and left it in great condition.