The Omega Speedmaster Professional Starmus Watch Club Just Got Bigger

In addition to that esteemed award, the chosen few will also receive an exclusive Omega Speedmaster Professional "Starmus" watch Since 2017, Omega has supported the event and gifted the honorees with a special Speedmaster In light of the fact that a ceremony was not held in 2018, 2019 marks only the second time a group has received the Omega Speedmaster Professional Starmus watch.

Previous recipients of the special Omega watch in 2017 were musician Jean-Michel Jarre, astrophysicist and science author Neil deGrasse Tyson, and the creators and cast of the long-running TV series The Big Bang Theory The new piece is based on the model known as the "First Omega in Space" - the storied watch strapped to Walter Schirra's wrist during the Sigma 7 mission of the Mercury program in 1962 It is aesthetically almost identical to the Omega Speedmaster "First Watch in Space" in Sedna™ gold launched back in 2015, bar the exclusive caseback.

Attendees included Omega ambassador Charlie Duke, veteran astronaut and Omega ambassador Nicole Stott, and a whole host of Apollo astronauts who are to thank for those remarkable memories made way back in 1969. . Source