Omega Flightmaster Cal.911 Hedgehopper Chronograph

Caliber 911 17 Jewels, uses the cal.861 bases

omega manual wind movement with a 12 hour GMT hand complication

circa 1971's

43 by 53mm diameter, thickness 15mm

tonneau shaped, only 7000pcs produced caliber

One of the benefits of Detente between the Soviet Union and the United States was the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP), and one of the "trickle-down" effects of the Apollo-Soyuz mission was that Soviet Astronauts had access to Swiss Chronographs to wear for a space mission for the first time. an official NASA, Cosmonaut Aleksey Leonev wearing his Flightmaster which appears to be a Stainless Steel c.911 (ST145.036) model.

NFS; Private Collection