The watch will almost certainly go for more $100,000 at auction.
Speedmasters during their trip, and the Swiss watchmaker issued a limited edition of 1,014 gold watches to commemorate their safe return. The first 28 were numbered and issued to American officials, including NASA astronauts, in order of seniority. The first two were intended for then-President Richard Nixon and Vice President Spiro Agnew, but both men refused the gifts. Those watches now reside in the Omega Museum in Switzerland. The rest were unnumbered and offered to the public.
“This is an incredibly rare watch,” Jim Wolf, the director of watches and fine timepieces at Heritage Auctions, said in a statement. “This watch is a piece of space history and a piece of timepieces history.” Both the watch case and band are made of 18-karat gold, and the case back is engraved, “Astronaut Michael Collins, Gemini 10—Apollo 11, No. 19, to mark man’s conquest of space with time, through time, on time.” Inside is a Caliber 861 manually wound movement. The watch shows signs of light wear but is otherwise in very good overall condition, according to the auction house.
Along with the watch, the highest bidder will become the owner of a handwritten note from Collins. “This Omega watch was given to me shortly after the flight of Apollo XI, and has been in my personal possession ever since,” it reads. “I wore it seldom if ever, but I have wound it every decade or so, and I believe it is in perfect operating condition. Michael Collins, Apollo XI CMP.”
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