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Omega Speedmaster Apollo 13 Silver Snoopy Award Limited Edition Watch
This may not be your Dad’s?(or Grandad’s) Speedmaster, but this new limited edition Omega?Moonwatch is a direct reference to an?event that previous generations will not soon forget. To commemorate the 45th?anniversary?of Apollo 13, Omega has announced a new and rather comical (sorry) tribute not only to the famously aborted Apollo mission, but also to the Silver Snoopy Award that NASA gave to Omega in 1970 for their work on the Apollo program. With a beautiful crisp white dial and a period-correct Cal 1861 inside, the Omega Speedmaster Apollo 13 Silver Snoopy Award Limited Edition watch is packed full of references to one of the most famous Apollo?missions, the one that went wrong.For those not aware,?Snoopy, the dog from Charles Schulz’s pop comic strip Peanuts, was co-opted by NASA as their safety?mascot for the Apollo program.?The Silver Snoopy award was?given out by NASA to those who contributed towards the safety and success of the Apollo missions. In 1970, Omega
Hands-On With The Alpina Seastrong Gyre, A Dive Watch Made From Ocean Plastic
So, there's an island that fills an area twice the size of Texas (or three times the size of France, for our European friends) floating around in the middle of the ocean, but paradise lost this ain't - it's actually a floating vortex of trash appropriately dubbed "the Great Pacific Garbage Patch."In fact, this human-made blight is so big, its nebulous location can be followed via Google Maps as it drifts on the ocean's currents between Hawaii and California. Numerous efforts are underway to reduce the size of the patch, which is estimated to contain nearly two trillion pieces of plastic (weighing a collective 80,000 tons) wreaking havoc on ocean ecosystems worldwide. One such way to do this involves creating products out of the plastics retrieved from its slurry - products like the new and limited Alpina Seastrong Gyre. Why “gyre?” Well, in oceanographic terms, a “gyre” refers to a large system of circulating ocean currents, one of which is, sadly, best known fo