OMEGA Speedmaster Pre Moon Ed White - Reference 105.003-65. - Lot 123

OMEGA Speedmaster Pre Moon Ed White - Reference 105.003-65. Steel bracelet chronograph with manual winding. Steel tonneau case, black bezel with graduated external tachometric scale, fluted crown, round pushers, screw-down caseback engraved with Speedmaster seahorse. Black dial, luminescent painted baton hour markers, grey leaf hands with luminescent paint, painted white baton minute track, 30-minute totalizer counter at 3 o'clock, 12-hour totalizer counter at 6 o'clock and perpetual seconds at 9 o'clock, white central baton chronograph second hand, applied logo. Movement: hand-wound mechanical. Caliber 321 17 jewels - Numbered 2 5003281 (circa 1967). Case, dial and movement signed. Omega steel bracelet with Omega folding clasp. Reference 1039-69/516. Case dimensions: 40 mm. with complete Omega Speedmaster case. This version of the Speedmaster is nicknamed Pre Moon, the generation that preceded the one that accompanied the members of the Apollo 11 mission. Despite its successor's track record, it contributed to the conquest of space on the wrist of astronaut Thomas Stafford for the Gemini 6 and 9 missions, and the Apollo 10 mission, which carried out several tests that were decisive for the famous Apollo 11 mission.