The paths of NASA and Omega first crossed in 1962, following Kennedy’s inaugural promise to make an American the first man on the moon. Donald ‘Deke’ Slayton, NASA’s head of flight crew operations, had two anonymous NASA officials choose a selection of watches from a Houston jeweler, Corrigan’s, and alongside a Longines Wittnauer, a Rolex Daytona, plus seven others that didn’t make the cut, they picked out an Omega Speedmaster Professional.
In a blind twist of fate, their decision to select Omega’s sports watch wasn’t a unique one; in the same year, astronaut Walter ‘Wally’ Schirra wore one as a backup for the clock on board his Sigma 7 spacecraft. He found it to perform faultlessly, enjoying it nearly as much as the steak sandwich stowed aboard by friend and fellow astronaut Leroy Gordon ‘Gordo’ Cooper. But Slayton’s concern wasn’t of the watch merely being in space; on the moon, the variation in temperature between light and shade was expected to be between -160°C and +120°C, far removed from the relative comfort of Sigma 7’s cockpit. This consideration prompted a series of grueling tests designed to push the three finalists, the Rolex, Longines and Omega, to the breaking point.
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