Probably the biggest hero of our generation. I can't really think of another. I remember sitting listening to the radio for the moon landing so clearly (it's was in South Africa, no TV until around 1974 or so). Epic times. Here are a couple of speedies posed on a newspaper from the moon scrapbook I made in 1969.

Bringing it back to more mundane watch subjects, I would say that Armstrong's or Aldrin's moon watch have to be the real grail watches (Armstrong because it was Armstrong, but Aldrin's as it seems quite clear (check Maddox) that Armstrongs watch might have stayed in the LEM. Yeah it's great to have the watch of some racing driver or some sports star, but in the world of chrono/tool watches that has to be the ultimate, and clearly ahead of any Lindeburg/Erhart watch (I don't know if they exist) or even Churchill or other historic figures. I know I would swap all my Heuers for it; but more realistically swapping my house would not be enough (certainly if Mcqueen at $800k is a reference point). In any case it's better owned by the Smithsonian than by a private individual. I wonder if some evil mastermind who stole Aldrin's watch has it or it was lost and trashed?

Can anyone think of a more important/more desirable grail watch?

Shaun

PS: John Glenn's Heuer stopwatch is cool, but it wasn't on the moon.... (and I was only really counting wristwatches).