posted 11-01-2016 09:16 AM            

Taken aboard the LM on the lunar surface. 145-22224:

Curiously, this shot inside the CM shows him wearing two Speedmasters on his left arm, one on velcro, the other on a JB Champion band. 162-24084:

posted 11-01-2016 03:23 PM               

After looking at countless images of the Speedmaster I'm only familiar with three astronauts that wore a second Speedmaster on the JB Champion Bracelet during their missions.

• Cernan - Apollo 10 and 17 (Straight end pieces)
  
• Gordon - Apollo 12 (Horned end pieces)
  
• Young - Apollo 10 and 16 (Horned end pieces)

Here is Cernan and Young both with JB Champion bracelets on Apollo 10 (Credit: "For All Mankind"):

Young also wore his Speedmaster on the JB Champion during STS-1.

posted 11-02-2016 02:20 PM            

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The famous JB Champion bracelet. My favorite subject when discussing the Speedmaster.

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posted 11-02-2016 03:22 PM               

Going back over my images last night after I posted my response I wanted to see if I could locate another image of Young that could provide more conclusive evidence that he wore a second Speedmaster on the JB during Apollo 16. I was unable to locate any. I think I would amend my previous post to say he did wear a second Speedmaster on a JB bracelet during Apollo 10 but I'm unsure about 16.

Here is an image I had saved of Young from the Apollo 16 crew photo where he is wearing his Speedmaster on a riveted bund style strap with a small foldable Timely calendar wrapped around it. In his sitting portrait his Speedmaster is on the JB bracelet so who knows what flew if he wore a second watch.

posted 11-03-2016 03:34 AM               

Here is Young with a Speedmaster back on the JB the morning of launch.

Young with no watch seen on his left wrist as the suit tech puts on his glove.

posted 02-15-2017 02:25 PM               

I came across my dad's old Omega (which he wore at Kennedy Space Center throughout Apollo), and it's on the same bracelet! I had no idea that this "cheapo" band was so iconic in relation to both Speedmasters and the Apollo program, but a bit of googling taught me a lot! Along the way, I found this handy guide.

Although they sold for $6.95 back in the day, they regularly fetch $400-500 on eBay... Anyone on here using this band?

posted 04-30-2017 01:54 AM               

After tracking down the first set of 1968 calendars a mild obsession began collecting complete unused sets of calendars from the Apollo years and recently I was able to obtain what I believe is the first set of calendars produced in 1966.

Below is a bit on the Timely calendars used during the Apollo years.

Here is a picture of the calendar on Dave Scott's bracelet.

Here is the US Patent for the calendars issued on September 12, 1967. The 1966 calendars are printed with US Patent Pending as well as the sets from 1967. Beginning with the set produced in the 1968 US Patent 3,340,630 is printed on the calendars.

Here is the collection including 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, and 1972. I'm still searching for 1970 and 1971 to complete the Apollo years.

If you are asking yourself what prompted this post it was finding this passage on page 70 in the new book "Apollo Pilot: The Memoir of Astronaut Donn Eisele" by Francis French.

We all had minor problems during our flight. Wally was constipated, Walt didn’t like the food, and I couldn’t sleep - except, perversely, when I wasn’t supposed to. Wally and Walt got cabin fever. Walt made it worse with his daily ritual of scratching the date off his wrist calendar. I didn’t get "go home fever" until the very last day, which was a very long one for me.

posted 05-05-2017 01:33 PM               

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...complete unused sets of calendars from the Apollo years

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