Forty years of space missions for the Omega Speedmaster! Each Speedmaster Professional model in the special 40th anniversary series displays on its dial at 9 o'clock one of the official patches from NASA's first manned space missions, from the August 1965 Gemini to the Skylab SL-4 mission of November 16, 1973.

These colourful, richly decorated patches relate the exceptional adventure of space exploration in which the Speedmaster Professional - the only watch worn on the Moon - was greatly involved. The Speedmaster made six round-trips to the Moon: from the first man on the Moon, Neil Armstrong on July 21, 1969 at 02:56 GMT, to the last, Apollo 17 commander and OMEGA ambassador Gene Cernan.

Today, as part of the standard equipment of the astronauts and the cosmonauts during their walks in space, the OMEGA Speedmaster - from the manned space shuttle to interplanetary flights towards Mars - is there to record significant moments in time wherever man ventures.