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Anniversary watches are often geared towards serious fans with a forensic understanding of the legacy of the original model, but Omega is bucking that trend with a cool jubilee edition that
has mass appeal.
Watches with a James Bond twist Make time for me: bespoke watches for everyone
The Omega Speedmaster Silver Snoopy Award 50th Anniversary features everyone’s favourite beagle in a space suit. And that’s not all: Snoopy becomes a canine astronaut within the magical
universe of this chronograph. All will be revealed, but first a little history.
Back in 1960, as the space race hotted up, Snoopy became America’s official space dog, with Nasa nominating the cartoon pooch as its official mascot to act as a watchdog during space
missions. In fact, so serious was Snoopy’s role that the Apollo 10 lunar module was codenamed “Snoopy and the Command Module Charlie Brown”. The Apollo 10 mission in May 1969 was a dress
rehearsal for the moon landing two months later – so you could say that Nasa paid “Peanuts” to shoot a rocket into space.
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