This is it, I take it up:
Again and again everywhere I look, Fortis watches get profiled in announces or profile themself as "Official cosmonauts watch"...
The only problem is that most of those watches are automatic.
I thought many times that I should bring this up and time went by...
Now , looking at a Marine Master selling on the net, I saw the back of the watch engraved "FORTIS B42 OFFICIAL COSMONAUTS AUTOMATIC"
The Omega Speedmaster Moon watch have a mechanical movement: Not automatic.
Why? Well, very simple...No gravitation force in space, no force applied on the rotor and no spinning...Then no power in the movement?
But most of us know that since long: I don't want to sound like bringing old news but this detail irritate me each time I see those watches.
So why do they keep announcing and selling "watches used by cosmonauts" and "Space watches"????? Even engraving it back them cases...?
Seems to me like most of them average customers believe that they wear watches similar to the ones the cosmonauts are using in space missions

Last edited on Mon Sep 6th, 2010 01:17 pm by Hammerfjord