The first Rolex watch to land on the surface of the moon is available for sale, and Coronet believes it is too historically important for Rolex to ignore it.
The news broke yesterday that Lunar Module Pilot Edgar Mitchell's flown Rolex GMT-Master 1675 worn on the Apollo 14 mission is being auctioned off. The caseback is engraved, “Worn by Cdr. E. Mitchell on Apollo 14, 1971, To Karlin My Daughter.” The watch looks unpolished.
The auction for Mitchell’s watch, which opened on Sept. 26, 2024, comes with a certificate of authenticity signed by the astronaut himself. Nick Gould was first to publish the news.
The first Rolex moon watch is also the first watch on the moon to be self-winding. It is likely Rolex will participate and win the auction. The last and only time a Rolex moon watch was put up for auction was in 2009, when Apollo 17 Command Module Pilot Ron Evans' Rolex GMT was sold for $131,450. The watch was bought by Rolex.