Navy Astronaut Mark Kelly's space worn CONA Breitling auction begins...

Anyone here going to place a bid? I'm a little short on this one. It's still only at $30,000 with bidding to the end of the month.



An Important Memento in Aviation History

This watch package auction includes: The #1 of 500 numbered Naval Centennial Limited Edition Airwolf watches, worn by aviators in a global journey that was initiated with Commander Mark Kelly on the Space Shuttle Endeavour's last flight into space in May – A trip that alone logged 6.5 million miles! - The official Aviators' Flight Log Book, which accompanied every pilot on each individual flight. - A personal presentation of this package by Mark Kelly to the highest bidder of the auction.

The Watch’s Journey

The #1 watch has spent the past year travelling the globe with various aviators including the Breitling Jet Team Leader Jaques Bothelin, British Pilots Charlie Brown and Lee Proudfoot; New Zealand Pilot Keith Skilling, U.S. Pilot Thom Richards, German Pilot Matthias Dolderer, Austrian Airforce Pilot Major Dietmar Springer, Italian Pilot Francesco Fornabio, Swiss Pilot Ernst Frei, and French Aerobatic Champion Oliver Masurel, ending its journey in the U.S. with the 1 Blue Angel.



Someone here is going to palce a bid...right?

http://auctions.readysetauction.com/breitling/

I got to see one of these watches at a jeweler in Providence during liberty one weekend - amazing timepiece. Whoever ends up with this one in particular is going to have a great story on their wrist...

What were you thinking, 32 people each put in $1000 or 320 each put in $100? If the later I'd be game.

what time do you set your watch to if you're in space? is there some sort of uber-zulu? or do you have to just keep changing it every three to five minutes?

No thanks. I already have an Airwolf. Seems to me that everyone wants to be like ME!

oh c'mon, it was a joke

My XBOX 360 has 6 day traps on it from RAG CQ....anyone wanna buy it for good luck?

My laptop has 200+ traps. I should put an IKE CENTURION patch on it.

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Why not? Your backseaters have centurion patches

Pay uber bucks for this watch and hope that the quartz movement doesn't go bad 20 years from now - it won't be able to be fixed then. He should have taken a watch with an automatic movement and not a quartz one.

That's deep.

If suckers weren't a dime a dozen the economy would implode.

Now that is probably the best argument against buying it. I bet Speedmasters that went to the moon sitting in museums today would probably run if you wound them up. Big investment for something that may or may not last a lifetime.

In hindsight, I'm glad as heck that my $28,700 offer was out bid.

In all honesty, if I was some super famous person (assuming I wasn't loaded to begin with), I'd buy tons of stuff, wear it once during something and then sell it on ebay to make beaucoup bucks. You know there's going to be people out there who will buy it. The key will be not to flood the market and drive down value. "Here's the watch I wore when I took a shit in the back of a P-3 while on a training mission off the coast..."

And if they didn't run after you wound them up, being a automatic/mechanical movement, any good watchmaker could fix them.

I think there is already an industry built around precisely that.

Doesn't time work differently in space? Think I read that on a recent Cracked.com article. It's where I get 90% of my knowledges.

I had to do all the Lorenz transformations and all that special relativity crap in physics courses. It never makes sense. Time makes no sense, it's a good thing we all move so slow (in the relativistic sense), ETA's would be a lot harder if you had to include the Lorentz factor in everything.

Basically, in non nerd terms, the watch, in space will appear to have run slow when brought back to earth, even though there is nothing wrong with it.

They used Mission Elapsed Time (MET), which is a flexible time zone based on the launch time of the shuttle mission.

And if the space-watch is traveling very fast the space-watch will look slow from earth, but in space the earth-watch will look slow. Wrap your brain around that one.

It's not hard. You are always traveling through time, space or a combination of the both. Relative to Earth/SOL, we are moving very slow through space, so it's mostly time. Go damn near the speed of light, and time slows down, even though it's perceived as normal where you are.