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Wonderful Movado catalog page featuring the Ermeto styles, circa 1946.

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55 years ago… Movado Datachron HS360 automatic chronograph In September 1970, Thomas Stafford, then Chief of the Astronaut Office (July 1969 - July 1971), gifted a Movado Datachron HS360 automatic chronograph to Gerald Carr. The Movado was an American market version of the Zenith “El Primero” and the reverse panda dial Movado Datachron HS360 was an excellent choice for a US Marine Corps aviator. Stafford was a wrist watch aficionado, would become Omega USA board member, and it’s a guess if this automatic chronograph was a late 38th birthday gift or a consolation gift, as Gerald Carr lost his place as Apollo 19 Lunar Module Pilot with Apollo 19 and 20 being cancelled. Both Gerald Carr and William Pogue were the first to wear an automatic chronograph as resident crew of the NASA Skylab space station during 84 days between November 1973 and February 1974. While Carr’s Movado Datachron had a date function, Pogue’s Seiko 6139-6005 had a day-date function realising two firsts for automatic chronographs being used in space! Although visible in SL-4 space station mission photos, these automatic chronographs can be best seen in the February 8, 1974 post-splashdown recovery photo series, with Carr and Pogue proudly wearing their personal automatic chronograph on their left-hand wrist aboard the US Navy amphibious assault ship/Heli-carrier USS New Orleans. (Photos: MoonwatchUniverse/NASA)