For most billionaires, a timepiece is a symbol of prestige. For an engineering maverick like Elon Musk, his Carrera Calibre 1887 SpaceX Chronograph is a functional instrument
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When you are a billionaire genius engineer with a net worth of $42 billion, the kind of watch you wear is naturally going to attract a lot of attention, much like how Bill Gates and Steve Jobs’ penchant for Casio, has become a meme vis-à-vis the differences between a real Silicon Valley billionaire versus investor tycoon types like Warren Buffet. Hence, given tremendous attention paid to Iron Man, when the reel-life super genius Tony Stark was seen wearing an Urwerk, watch connoisseurs were wondering what a real life engineer would wear; as it turns out Elon Musk, founder of Tesla, has a more practical choice: a TAG Elon Musk’s TAG Heuer Carrera Calibre 1887 Space X chronograph Space X chronograph.
Colonel John Glenn’s predecessor to the Carrera Calibre 1887 Space X chronograph
On 20 February 1962, NASA launched Friendship 7 with its pilot Colonel John Glenn, making history as the Allied Power’s first man in space and with his Heuer 2915A stopwatch strapped to the Colonel’s wrist, making TAG Heuer the first watch in space.
A two-register dial with 12-hour and 60-minute subdials, it?s among some of the easy to read space mission time-keeping instruments thanks to its n...