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Ruckdee
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I am glad my post contributed to something.

Let me take care of your points one by one.

1) That is not a lady's model. My photograph is misleading due to the confusion of blue ambient light, yellow spotlight and white camera flash. The dial in fact is all gold color not purple in the center. The watch you see is a part of the series produced in 1969 to commemorate the moon landing. This particular specimen was presumed lost but then recovered at a later time by Omega. It was the exact piece presented to and rejected by US Vice President Spiro Agnew, at the same time with the other piece for President Nixon. I think this has to do with these watches being expensive gifts? Anyway, the caseback of this watch bears the engraving "to mark man's conquest of space with time, through time, on time" with "Spiro T. Agnew" above and "Vice President of the United States" below it.

2) Regarding the two Alaska watches shown, I heard from the speech that they traveled outside Switzerland only once before in their entire life and that trip was to NASA back in the days. This is the second trip they made ever away from home.

3) As for the Aventurine model, yes, I think we understood it was stone. I even looked up the cost of raw aventurine stone to try and justify the price difference between the regular 1866 models!

Thanks for looking and also for the questions. You've just given me the opportunity to share more from what I read or heard at the event.

Ruckdee

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