Furthermore, the watch needed to display both the time on the Red Planet and at home. And that is something that impresses me the newest Speedmaster is a proper instrument.ĮSA challenged Omega, and the watchmaker deliveredĮSA challenged Omega to develop a watch that takes into account that one day on Mars is 39 minutes and 35 seconds longer than one day on our planet. The watch was born out of ESA’s request for Mars-specific timing functions. The new Speedmaster X-33 Marstimer is not meant to be a crowd-pleaser. With satellites hanging from the ceiling, the very engaging talks by different ESA scientists and French astronaut Jean-François Clervoy made quite an impact on everyone there.

And if you want to see the introduction of the watch and find out about the setting during the Speedy Tuesday event at the European Space Agency (ESA), you can go here. You can find everything there is to know about the new Omega Speedmaster X-33 Marstimer in RJ’s introduction article. And there’s also a heads-up regarding some interesting upcoming auctions in case you want to shop for X-mas on time for once. My thoughts about the Marstimer belong in a Coffee Corner Watch Talk. But that was something I did after the show.

The presentation did answer a lot of very difficult questions, but it also left the room to ponder about the watch, its functions, and its mission. The pros at the European Space Agency (ESA) came up with a wish list of very specific timing functions they need to operate their Mars lander on the Red Planet. It’s not every day that you get to watch the launch of a tool watch that’s made together with a space agency. You couldn’t have missed the recent introduction of the Omega Speedmaster X-33 Marstimer.

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