Forgotten Innovators: Alfred Lugrin
Every Omega Speedmaster owner has Alfred Lugrin on their wrist—but 99% do not know it. Here is the story that will change how you look at your collection forever.
The telegram arrived at NASA headquarters on March 1, 1965, with news that would change horological history forever. The Omega Speedmaster had been selected as the official timepiece for all manned space missions. What the NASA engineers did not know—what most watch collectors still do not know today—is that the heart beating inside that Speedmaster carried the DNA of a Swiss farmer's son who had revolutionized watchmaking seventy-five years earlier from a workshop so small you could barely swing a pendulum in it.
This is the story of Alfred Lugrin, the man whose innovations still tick on your wrist today, and why understanding his legacy might just change how you look at every watch in your collection.
