New Seiko SpringDrive Space Watch

[wasatch]

Only 100 of these will be produced....

The SEIKO Spring Drive Spacewalk has been custom designed and built with Richard’s mission in mind. The mission of SEIKO’s engineers was to build a watch that was light, air-tight, strong, easy to read and easy to use, as well as safe and accurate.















www.seikospringdrive.com/spacewalk/watchinfo/index.html

53 mm....whoa!

[aerome]

So who is Richard?

[wasatch]

I snagged this from Wikipedia:
Richard Allen Garriott (born July 4, 1961), also known as Lord British in Ultima and General British in Tabula Rasa, is a significant figure in the video game industry. He was originally a game designer and programmer, but now engages in various aspects of computer game development. He is scheduled to fly as spaceflight participant to the International Space Station in October 2008

On September 28, 2007, Space Adventures announced that Garriott would fly to the International Space Station in October 2008 as the sixth space tourist. He will launch onboard Soyuz TMA-13, and will land with Soyuz TMA-12. [1] He will become the second offspring of a past space explorer to go into space himself, after cosmonaut Sergey Volkov. Soyuz TMA-12 will carry both of them on its return trip.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Garriott

Sounds like a pretty interesting guy.

[aerome]

Thanks. I started backtracking through web pages and came up with the same. Sounds like he has a few bucks in Seiko stock, too! Great marketing gimmick. I bet they'll looking into hornswaggling a watch worn by the next movie superhero. All it takes is money.