posted 03-24-2025 05:43 AM               

Neil Armstrong's personally-owned and -worn 18K solid yellow gold Omega Speedmaster Professional chronograph wristwatch (Ref. BA 145.022), presented to him at a special gala dinner on November 25, 1969, at the Hotel Warwick in Houston.

Notably, there exist multiple photos of Armstrong during his tenure as a professor at the University of Cincinnati wearing his gold Speedmaster as he folds a paper airplane. Accompanied by an 'Extract from the Archives' certificate from Omega, with remarks citing it as a "Special numbered edition to celebrate the 'Apollo XI' moon landing."

Bidding details: this watch will be sold LIVE at the Royal Sonesta in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at 6 PM ET on April 17, 2025; at that time, absentee bidding will close, and the auction will continue live in-person, via telephone, and on the Invaluable live bidding platform. To schedule a live auction phone call, please contact RR Auction at (603) 732-4280.

posted 04-17-2025 09:37 PM               

Neil Armstrong's gold Omega moonwatch sells for record $2.2M at auction

A new record has been set for the most paid at auction for an astronaut's timepiece.

The 18-karat gold Omega Speedmaster that was presented to Neil Armstrong four months after he became the first person to walk on the moon in 1969, sold for a hammer price of $1.7 million on Thursday (April 17). With the auction house's fees included, the total price for the chronograph was $2,187,500 — $280,546.25 more than the previous record set in 2022 by a nearly-identical gold Speedmaster gifted to Mercury, Gemini and Apollo astronaut Walter "Wally" Schirra.

posted 04-17-2025 09:40 PM               

• $2,187,500.00 - Neil Armstrong (2025, RR Auction)
  
• $1,906,953.75 - Wally Schirra (2022, RR Auction)
  
• $765,000 - Michael Collins (2022, Heritage)
  
• $375,000 - Gus Grissom (2023, RR Auction)
  
• $302,500 - Alan Bean (2023, RR Auction)
  
• $296,738 - Ron Evans (2023, RR Auction)
  
• $152,400 - Jack Swigert (2023, Sotheby's)
  
• $150,000 - Scott Carpenter (2023, Heritage)
  
• $142,663.75 - Edgar Mitchell (2025, RR Auction)

• $2,882,500.00 - Vostok 3KA-2 space capsule (2011, Sotheby's)
  
• $2,772,500.00 - Buzz Aldrin's Apollo 11 inflight jacket (2022, Sotheby's)
  
• $2,187,500.00 - Neil Armstrong's gold Speedmaster (2025, RR Auction)
  
• $2,163,199.00 - Edgar Mitchell's Apollo 14 Rolex (2024, RR Auction)
  
• $2,055,000.00 - Neil Armstrong's Apollo 11 gold Robbins (2019, Heritage)
  
• $1,906,953.75 - Wally Schirra's gold Speedmaster (2022, RR Auction)
  
• $1,812,500.00 - Apollo 11 moon rock bag (2017, Sotheby's)
  
• $1,652,500.00 - Soyuz TM-10 spacecraft (1993, Sotheby's)
  
• $1,625,000.00 - Apollo 15 Bulova (2015, RR Auction)
  
• $1,400,000.00 - Vozvraschaemyi Apparat vehicle (2014, Lempertz)