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FORTIS B-42 OFFICIAL COSMONAUT CHRONOGRAPH
Model
638.10.11M - Bracelet $2700 plus shipping & handling. Buy the complete
kit with two additional bands for $3100.
Movement: Automatic Valjoux 7750; 13 1/4''; day/date indication;
30-minute counter at 12 o'clock position; 12-hour counter at 6 o'clock
position; 25 jewels; 28,800 semi-vibrations per hour; Incabloc shock
absorber
Case: Stainless steel; brushed finish; black uni-directional
turning diver bezel with 120 grid; tachometer scale on dial flange;
screw-down solid steel caseback; water-resistant to 200m (20 ATM); sapphire
crystal with anti-reflective coating on both sides; steel crown with
FORTIS logo
Dial: Black with Arabic numerals
Attachment: Stainless steel brushed finish bracelet with
double screwed links; also available with padded leather strap. For
better fit and security, a stainless steel bar slides through attachment
and lugs, and is screwed to outside of case.
Special Features: 42 mm case diameter; neon-orange function
hands; numerals, hands & indices coated with Superluminova; colored
triangles on dial guide day and date adjustment; individually numbered
FORTIS
The world's first automatic wristwatch in series production
1926
FORTIS became the world's first automatic wristwatches in series
production, with the birth of the Harwood. These models are named
for John Harwood, an inventor and infantryman from England who
holds the patent for this watch technology and a partner of Walter
Vogt, the original owner of FORTIS. The FORTIS factory has been
based in Grenchen, Switzerland, since 1912.
FORTIS
The world's first automatic chronograph worn in open space
1995
Developed in cooperation with Russia's Yuri Gagarin Cosmonauts
Training Center, the FORTIS Cosmonaut Chronograph with the Lemania
5100 automatic movement, shown below in the Cosmonaut Set, met
the 5 requirements set forth by the space agency's team of travelers
and aerospace engineers.
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The 602.22.11 had to:
- Have a reliable, independent power source
- Must have perfect operability in zero gravity and under
intense gravitational force
- Must be resistant to the harsh conditions of open space
- Must have optimal legibility
- Must have an additional, extendible strap
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FORTIS Since 1994, the official watch of the Russian Space
Agency and, since 2001, the official watch of all astronauts and
cosmonauts who blast off from Russia to the International Space
Station
After endurance tests on the borderline of modern physics, Russia's
Star City Training Center chose the FORTIS Official Cosmonauts
Chronograph as part of their cosmonauts' gear. On October 31,
2000, the first crew of astronauts and cosmonauts was launched
for their 117-day stay on the International Space Station (ISS),
establishing mankind's first outpost in space. Since this flight,
every crew member of every mission, including Americans, Russians,
Europeans, and Japanese space travelers, have received a FORTIS
Official Cosmonaut as part of their standard equipment.
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