We are Chronocentric!

March 31, 2025

An interesting video about ‘our time of one of our Dutch (former) astronauts, Wubbo Ockels. Wubbo Ockels was an astronaut on the STS-61A mission in 1985. Amongst others, Reinhard Furrer was also an astronaut on this mission. Reinhard Furrer wore a Sinn 142 timepiece during his time in space, Wubbo Ockels wore a Seiko 100M sports chrono that he received from NASA (according to his own words in a recently published magazine). He still wears this watch on a daily basis ??The video takes 22 minutes of your precious time, but already in the first few minutes it will become clear why we are ‘chronocentric . Derek Ziglar (who passed away in 2005) of Chronocentric really picked his website s name very carefully.Below you see Wubbo Ockels in action in the mid-1980s wearing his Seiko digital chrono. If anyone knows more about the specific Seiko reference number of this 100m Sports chrono, please do let me know.