Fortis Has Created the First Watch Movement Tested in Space

Watches have been going to space since the dawn of manned missions. Everyone knows about the Omega Speedmaster being worn on the moon in 1969, but nearly a decade prior in 1961, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin wore a Provenance Sturmanskie on the first-ever space flight. A year later, Swiss watchmaker Fortis gave a fledgling NASA program the Spacematic AR to be its official space watch. The final frontier has been part of Fortis’ identity ever since, however, the brand’s latest outer space mission may be its most interesting.