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We're talking, link of course, about the Omega Speedmaster "Silver Snoopy Award" 50th Anniversary – a watch that pays link direct link homage to the very first Silver Snoopy award presented October 5, 1970, after the infamous Apollo 13 mission.

His name was Hugo. He was link my grandmother's father and was born in Austria in 1895. A year before the outbreak of World War I, he received a gold IWC pocket watch that was purchased link in Hungary at Joseph Lang – the very same retailer that famously sold two stainless-steel Patek Philippe 1518s in 1944. We can't say for sure, but my family believes that my link great-great-grandfather purchased it for Hugo to celebrate his 18th birthday.

In any case, it was safe to say that while space travel was still interesting and we loved looking at link all the rockets and things at museums like the Smithsonian, peril had entered the picture. Space link left my mind for a while, but the mention link of Kennedy is significant.

Of course the link French and Swiss watchmaking histories are linked together. When Louis XIV made Protestantism illegal in 1685 some link of the Huguenots or French Protestants relocated to Switzerland and among them were a lot of French link watchmakers.