Omega Speedmaster Professional

On September 12, 1962, President John F. Kennedy stood before a jubilant crowd at Rice University and inspired the world with a new quest."The vast stretches of the unknown," he proclaimed, "and the unanswered, and the unfinished, still far outstrip our collective comprehension." "Those who came before us," he would add, "made certain that this country rode the first waves of the industrial revolution, the first waves of modern invention and the first wave of nuclear power. And this generation does not intend to founder in the backwash of the coming age of space. We mean to be a part of it. We mean to lead it."And lead it, we did.But we didn't do it alone. We did it through out technology. We did it through our engineering. We did it through our determination to go into the face of the unknown. It may seem insignificant to us today, but among that technology was a simple watch, the watch that would accompany the majority of America's astronauts into that void, a watch that carried them