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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8whdGa7RtY

By September 1959, NASA STG had procured eight link black-dial LeCoultre 24 Hours watches on expandable steel link bracelets and link distributed them to the NASA Mercury 7 astronauts. The lightweight bracelets were US-made by Jacoby-Bender.

• Cuban President Fidel Castro gave two Rolexes to Argentine socialist revolutionary Che link Guevara, including coffre a montre a link Rolex GMT-Master 1675 that was “liberated” by CIA paramilitary officer Felix Rodriguez after Guevara’s October 1967 death in La Higuera, Bolivia.

I love the lifestyle photos of this worn with a jacket because my first thought is "what kind of cuff allowance do I need to be able to wear this" Luckily I think the price link tag is going to make it so I don't have to rush to buy new shirts. All that to say that yes this is not a small watch. This may be the thickest watch I've link ever written about as link thick as the Rolex Deepsea Challenge but you're buying horological sculpture and art more than anything.