For years, space nerds have had a single watch at the center of their lives: the Omega Speedmaster Professional. This, as we all know, is the ?Moonwatch,? officially sanctioned by NASA for spaceflight, and an object of desire for many who see astronauts, particularly Apollo era astronauts, as heroes and great explorers. It?s almost the stuff of myth, and makes it easy to forget that the history of space exploration reaches far wider than the Apollo missions. The latest watch from Unimatic is a great reminder of that, and highlights a mission tangentially related to Apollo, but with implications far different than those of the projects that got Americans to the moon. Let?s take a look at the all new Unimatic Modello Tre U3-AS Apollo Soyuz. 
As the name given to it implies, this new diving chronograph commemorates the Apollo-Soyuz mission, a joint operation between the United States and Soviet Union executed in the summer of 1975. Apollo-Soyuz was historic for several key reasons: it was the first international manned space mission, it was the last crewed mission the United States took part in prior to the Space Shuttle era, and the partnership between the US and Soviet Union effectively ended the two decade Space Race. The project involved the docking of an Apollo module with a Soyuz capsule, followed by crews of both ships participating in scientific experiments together. It was considered a major public relations victory for the space programs of both countries,...