What is Professional mean for Speedmaster Professional collection?

Back to early of 60s when NASA was working on space experimental mission name "Mercury" and starting a new project called "GEMINI" -- send the astronauts out of the spaceship -- for some experimental in the space. While selected watches for operation need to be rugged enough to withstand in various environments such as atmospheric pressure, vacuum and low temperature. NASA considered many brands and tested in various environments and the only one that passed all testing was Omega Speedmaster. In 1965, Edward White, NASA's astronaut, wore Omega Speedmaster in mission GEMINI 4 for stopwatch recording during swimming in the space. In 1966, Omega added "PROFESSIONAL" after Speedmaster on the dial to celebrated as the watches of NASA's space experimental project.

OMEGA Moon Watch, the highest of the mountain is the respect

Is there anybody don't know Omega?

When talking about Omega, folks say yeah because it is an old branded. Behind the success of every Omega time piece is quality. Being the leader of the industry, Omega have to pass many testing. In 1950, accuracy of time indication and stopwatch feature are the keys competition of the era. Many brands try to improve the quality and invented new mechanism for their own watches to qualified by organization and federal institute of Switzerland. Omega was broke the record of accuracy in many events. In 1969, once again that Omega remarked as the first watches which reached the Moon in human history.

Omega became famous and gained a large sale number. The first Speedmaster collection, so called Moon Watch, is CK2918 manufactured in 1957 then another collections kept launched to the market. But most of them are the same design concept and performance such as stopwatch and time indication accuracy. Last year, Omega launched the latest collection, Speedmaster Professional Apollo-Soyuz 35th Anniversary to celebrated the 35th anniversary of Apollo-Soyuz Test project with a limited number of 1,975 watches.

OMEGA Moon Watch

The Peak is the acceptance
It can be said that most people recognize the name of Omega due to the long history and high quality of the brand.However,it was a tough path for them too. In the 1950s, it was the decade of competition to be the first in the market by focusing in the correctness of the brand as a. A large numbers of brand tried to develop and produce new movement.So the central organizations of Switzerland started examining and guaranteeing quality. In 1969,it was recorded that the watches of Omega were the first on the moon for the very first time.

Omega Seamaster Ploprof 1200M

Omega Seamaster Ploprof 1200M

Recall the of the legend time piece Ploprof again in 2010. A clear bright white and dim white dial. Steel case 55mm. Turnable white basel both counter and clockwise. Innovation for diving timing from Omega, lock and unlock basel by orange aluminium anodized button. Automatic Helium Escape engineered for inside case pressure relief. Water resistance depth 1,200m. Offer a high visibility with orange aluminium anodized minute hand with Super Luminova coated. Automatic calibre 8500 operate at 25,200 VPH together with Co-Axoal system. Accuracy certified by C.O.S.C Chronometer. White rubber strap or Shark poof steel strap.