![]() ![]() Read more on the Pogue here, Fratello, W&W and the collectors guide, here. So they wrote to him, asking what it was, and since then this watch has been referred to as the “Seiko Pogue”. ![]() Bill Pogue still managed to spend 84 days in space on board Skylab from Nov ‘73 to Feb ‘74, and it was many years later that someone spotted in photos of the time, that he was wearing not only his NASA-issued Omega Speedmaster, but some other yellow-faced thing on his other wrist. Pogue was a USAF fighter and test pilot, who went into the astronaut program and would probably have gone to the moon on Apollo 19, if that program hadn’t been shuttered early. No mention of the Seiko 6139-6000 and its variants would be complete without talking about the moment it became known as something other than maybe just the first automatic chronograph – it was the first automatic chronograph to be worn in space.Ĭolonel William R. (see earlier missives on the 6139-600x, here and here ) ![]()
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