Throughout the last decade I have been announcing the return of yellow to everyone who would listen. During that time, I was fortunate to collect a few yellow-gold watches, including a 1979 6265 Daytona, a 1978 AP Royal Oak and a Vacheron Constantin Cornes de Vache.
A couple of years ago, I was tantalizingly near to buying the 1969 Rolex Datejust Replica Speedmaster BA145.022, the watch that NASA made to commemorate the first lunar landing. This was one of my favorite Speedmasters.
The dial of this Speedie was different from other Speedies due to its square black markers, and also because it was made of solid gold. You can see the Swiss hallmark on either side under the minute track.Rolex Datejust Replica The OM Swiss OM is Or Massif which means "made from a large chunk of gold". It was my intention to visit a beautiful example of this watch in Milan's Duomo, just a few steps from the Park Hyatt where I had decamped after fashion week. But it never happened. The 1014 pieces were made in total, and a few years ago they could be found.
It's almost impossible to find one now. In other words, in the last two years, collectors who are savvy have bought them up. Ben Clymer, one of my most respected friends in the watch industry posted his new BA 145.022 to his Instagram account. I knew that something was going on. This watch will increase in value and popularity in a major way.
Why? This is one of Rolex Datejust Replica's most legendary watches. These watches were the first 32 that were given to NASA astronauts at a Houston banquet to celebrate Apollo XI's moon landing. If you don't know, that was the time when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin first landed their lunar modules on the moon.Replica Breitling Watches They then took a stroll on its surface.
This is one of most important events in geopolitics of the 20th Century. The Space Race between America & the USSR was effectively over. The technology that made it possible would later lead to the creation of the Internet.
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