Something really special happened today at work. One of my Astronauts came into the shop to bring his flight suit to have some patches sewn on. While we were discussing what he wanted done I noticed something on his wrist. I remember reading a story in one of the watch magazines about a Seiko watch that was being made for a special space flight for Richard Garriot. He is the video game guy who paid to fly with the Russians to the space station. His dad was an Appollo era Astronaut that flew on one of the Skylab Missions.
Any way, I immediatly recognized that my guy was wearing one of these watches. I asked him about it and he said that the Japanese Space Agency had issued it to him for his upcoming Space Station Mission. He is a Japanese Astronaut. I won't give his name. If you want to know it you can do some searching on the Internet and find it I'm sure. He was more than happy to let me try it on and take a few photos of it.
I am here to tell you that this is one special time piece, designed and built to not only funtion in zero G, but also to withstand the servere Temperature and pressure extremes of the vaccum in space. This thing is a monster, 53mm according to the press release from Seiko, yet it felt very light on the wrist because of the Titainium case.
Seiko is planning to release only 100 of these in December of this year, I don't what the price will be but I'm sure it will be quite expensive. I was so excited to actually get to hold one of these and get a real close look at it. I was able to get a few photos before he had to leave. I took the photos with the watch laying on top of his flight suit for the background.
I hope you all enjoy them as much as I did getting to check it out in person.
Any way, I immediatly recognized that my guy was wearing one of these watches. I asked him about it and he said that the Japanese Space Agency had issued it to him for his upcoming Space Station Mission. He is a Japanese Astronaut. I won't give his name. If you want to know it you can do some searching on the Internet and find it I'm sure. He was more than happy to let me try it on and take a few photos of it.
I am here to tell you that this is one special time piece, designed and built to not only funtion in zero G, but also to withstand the servere Temperature and pressure extremes of the vaccum in space. This thing is a monster, 53mm according to the press release from Seiko, yet it felt very light on the wrist because of the Titainium case.
Seiko is planning to release only 100 of these in December of this year, I don't what the price will be but I'm sure it will be quite expensive. I was so excited to actually get to hold one of these and get a real close look at it. I was able to get a few photos before he had to leave. I took the photos with the watch laying on top of his flight suit for the background.
I hope you all enjoy them as much as I did getting to check it out in person.
That would be my dream job. Amazing watch.