{"id":46994,"date":"2019-05-13T11:03:27","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T10:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/?p=46994"},"modified":"2019-05-13T11:03:29","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T10:03:29","slug":"omega-hosts-star-studded-tribute-to-lunar-landing-anniversary-with-george-clooney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/omega-hosts-star-studded-tribute-to-lunar-landing-anniversary-with-george-clooney\/","title":{"rendered":"Omega hosts star studded tribute to lunar landing anniversary with George Clooney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Omega paid tribute to the 50<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of the first lunar landing with a star studded event at the Kennedy Space Center.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hosting Omega ambassador George Clooney, NASA veterans Charlie Duke and Thomas Stafford were also in attendance.<\/p>\n<p>The day included discussions on a range of space-related subjects and media and VIP guests enjoyed a \u2018Golden Moments\u2019 dinner served beneath the Saturn 5 rocket.<\/p>\n<p>Proud of the Swiss brand&#8217;s claim to fame as the first watch worn on the Moon, president and CEO of Omega, Raynald Aeschlimann, summed the occasion up: &#8220;It&#8217;s a huge achievement to land on another world. I can&#8217;t think of a better reason to raise a glass in tribute.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To mark the anniversary, Omega has released a 42mm Speedmaster in 18K Moonshine gold.<\/p>\n<p>It is powered by the brand&#8217;s master chronometer calibre 3861, a manual-winding Omega co-axial escapement movement with Moonshine gold plated main plate and bridges, as well as burgundy markings.<\/p>\n<p>George Clooney took to the stage at the event, he said: \u201c&#8221;It&#8217;s a great pleasure to be here and an honour. I have enormous respect for the people who made the Apollo missions such a success.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Omega released a new 42mm Speedmaster and hosted veterans from NASA as part of the celebrations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":46995,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false},"categories":[8032,4,2],"tags":[3075,398],"newspack_lstngs_evt":[],"newspack_lstngs_gen":[],"newspack_lstngs_mkt":[],"newspack_lstngs_plc":[],"acf":[],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"WATCHPRO","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46994"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46994"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_lstngs_evt","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_lstngs_evt?post=46994"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_lstngs_gen","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_lstngs_gen?post=46994"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_lstngs_mkt","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_lstngs_mkt?post=46994"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_lstngs_plc","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_lstngs_plc?post=46994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}