A watch for astronauts--- Omega Speedmaster Professional X-33

Since 1965, once the Omega Speedmaster was NASA-licensed for space travel, the watch manufacturing company has offered because the official watch supplier towards the final frontier. On July 21, 1969, the Omega Speedmaster was the first watch around the moon. Its history spans over fifty years of space travel -- ongoing within the watch's latest edition, the Speedmaster Skywalker X-33 -- predecessor towards the Speedmaster Professional X-33.

Omega has already established a powerful relationship with astronauts within the development of the various iterations of the Speedmaster -- which latest isn't any exception. It offers an element developed and patented by ESA astronaut Jean-Fran?ois Clervoy, that has spent as many as 675 hours wide.

Throughout his space missions, Clervoy realized it could have been useful if his watch assisted him keep an eye on missions. The Speedmaster Skywalker X-33, therefore, includes features as a result: mission passed time (MET) and phase passed time (PET).

They are timers that permit the individual to create a date and time previously or future, having a timer that counts the length of time has passed or remains. Coupled with a variety of sensors, each with various tones, this produces a helpful tool for monitoring tasks and missions.

"ESA's capabilities and ambitions are remarkable, as shown by their recent high-profile achievements with Rosetta and Philae, and we're proud their title and endorsement sophistication the rear of this iconic chronograph."

The watch has 12 functions overall: hour, minute and seconds as high as three different time zones a chronograph a perpetual calendar an electronic LCD plus an analogue display with Super-Luminova-Covered hands and hour markings for simple legibility at nighttime and the opportunities to disengage the hands for simpler viewing of the digital display underneath.

The entire package continues to be covered with a grade two titanium cases and bracelet for sturdiness, and it is run by a multi-functional quartz chronograph movement, the Omega calibre 5619.

It is also been carefully examined for space conditions to make sure it may survive anything an astronaut can, in the ESA's ESTEC facility in Noordwijk, holland. This incorporated being exposed to some centrifuge, where it suffered pressure seven occasions Earth's gravity, just like an astronaut might experience upon re-entry and making it through the facility's shaker simulator, which models the vibration of the space craft throughout launch.

Other tests incorporated extreme temperature testing inside a vacuum chamber -- from -45°C to 75°C -- and being inundated with radiation underneath the supervision of French aerospace lab ONERA DESP. Each watch ended up being examined for functionality.