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3 days ago · Pogue bought his Seiko 6139 — a version now known by collectors as the Pogue — for $71 on June 13 1972 (equivalent to about $530 today), according to Heritage Auctions. The US auction house ...
American astronaut William Pogue made horological history during his 84 days orbiting Earth. By wearing his Seiko 6139 for the Skylab 4 mission between November 16 1973 and February 8 1974, he bestowed the watch the honour of being the first ...
3 days ago · There are some watches out there that have achieved a rare sort of infamy and the Seiko Speedtimer 6139, also known as the “Pogue,” is one such watch. It is named after Colonel William R. Pogue who wore one during NASA’s Skylab missions. It was also the first automatic chronograph to travel to space.
3 days ago · It was during the 1970s that the North American NASA astronaut Colonel William Pogue took a Seiko 6139 on his wrist to the Skylab mission, the first US Space Station, which would become the first automatic chronograph to travel in space, from then on it was known by the nickname “Pogue”.
4 days ago · The yellow dial Pogue was the first automatic chronograph in space, worn by Colonel William Pogue during the 1973 Skylab 4 mission. Purists say that only the reference 6139-6005 with “Water 70m resist” marking on the dial can be called “Pogue”: they refer to it as “True Pogue”.
3 days ago · The new Pogue does a nice job of translating the original’s unique color scheme to a modern watch. Seiko But this reissue ignores the movement aspect of the original Pogue in favor of a purely aesthetic recreation, as it uses the same solar-powered Cal. V192 chronograph movement found in other references of the Rolex Daytona-esque Seiko Speedtimer collection.
3 days ago · For those unfamiliar with the name Pogue, it refers to the Seiko chronograph ref. 6139 6002 from the 1970s and that was worn by Colonel William Pogue in 1973 on his trip to the Skylab Space Station. This means that it is widely credited with being the first automatic chronograph in space.
