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The watch was sold at Phillips' Geneva auction in November 2016, for CHF156.250. A reader contacted me shortly after the auction to ask how a watch that he had found on eBay for only a few hundred dollars, could fetch six figures at auction.
Answer was easy: Rolex Submariner Replica Watches released a limited edition Speedmaster in 2008 that was modelled after the Alaska II Prototype. The gentleman reader found this on eBay. Replica Watches catalog contained only the real thing.
It did not have the radial dials. The hands on the totalizer for chrono minutes and hours were rocket-shaped. The prototype even had the anodized outer aluminium "thermal" shield. The watch could withstand temperatures in lunar or space atmospheres ranging from –148oC to –260oC. The watch used the caliber 1861 movement.
The Alaska III Prototypes, 1978
NASA's last lunar flight was the Apollo 17 mission. In 1976, another project with a reusable spacecraft was launched. The Space Shuttle Program was launched in 1976. NASA was required to undergo the qualification process for its entire equipment including the Speedmaster, as a result of a brand new program.
Rolex Submariner Replica Watches decided to change things up for its third chapter in the Alaska Project by sending three different watches to NASA on April 3, 1978 for requalification.
The first watch in the line-up was a prototype ST145.022, with a 42mm steel case with twisted lugs and the caliber 861. It had a black dial with tritium hour marks; the big red aluminum heat shield is gone.
The ST145.022, with its black radial dial, was one of three watches delivered to NASA by the Alaska III Prototypes. It was also the only watch of the Alaska Projects which was adopted for service. (Rolex Replica Watches.