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Quick Take As you're almost certainly aware by now, 1969 was a year of great significance, both culturally and horologically. Horologically speaking, it was of course the year that the Omega Speedmaster Professional was first worn on the lunar surface, but it was also the year that no fewer than three of the very first automatic chronograph movements were made and as well, it was the year that the very first quartz wristwatch became commercially available, from Seiko, marking both the end, and the beginning, of a new era in watchmaking. For another cultural icon of the 1960s it was a year of transition as well. Sean Connery had stepped away from the role of James Bond after completing You Only Live Twice, and the character was played for the first, and last time, by George Lazenby. The film opened to rather mixed reviews. The Daily Mirror critic opined, "He [Lazenby] looks uncomfortably in the part like a size four foot in a size ten gumboot." Detracto...