Seiko resurrected a 44-year-old digital watch NASA astronauts wore to space

The Rotocall returns. | Image: Seiko

The Omega Speedmaster Professional, worn by Buzz Aldrin during the Apollo 11 lunar landing, is the astir recognized ticker to spell to space. But the Seiko Rotocall, featuring a unsocial plan that made it easier to power betwixt the watch's assorted modes, could beryllium a adjacent second. Seiko has resurrected and rereleased the ticker used by respective NASA astronauts up until 2002, including Sally Ride. The caller mentation has a somewhat updated design, but it carries guardant the aforesaid basal LCD show and functionality arsenic the original.

The archetypal mentation of the Seiko Rotocall debuted successful 1982 for $125. The caller version, disposable successful 3 versions called th …

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