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The reporter and NFL champion chose a suitable otherworldly timepiece for his Blue Origin flight.

How do you pack for a space trip? The six passengers of the Blue Origin space flight launched on December 11, 2021 need to think about this. One of them is NFL champion, award-winning journalist and Good Morning America co-anchor Michael Strahan. His personal belongings include a watch that is very suitable for otherworldly.

There seems to be no need to pack a toothbrush and extra socks, as Blue Origin's last flight (October 2021) only lasted about 11 minutes. On the contrary, as he told People magazine, Strahan is taking away personal and sentimental things. He is allowed to carry no more than three pounds of personal items, and interestingly, there are no less than two watches.

He took his grandfather's pocket watch and a watch from Swiss high-end independent watchmaker DeBethune. Even in the most esoteric watch companies, DeBethune is easy to walk at the end of creative avant-garde timepieces. The specific model of Strahan's flight is called DB28 Kind of Blue Z. It represents the brand well and is also related to Blue Origin flight in terms of themes and colors.

DeBethune is more like a manufacturer of art on the wrist than a timekeeping device. It is the kind of watchmaking that produces highly complex, technical and extensively hand-made watches for collectors who spend in the five-digit and six-digit range. division. The company usually draws inspiration from science fiction, and Trekkies will definitely notice the mention of the "Star Trek" series.

In this sense, it seems suitable for space missions ("Star Trek" actor William Shatner (William Shatner) participated in the previous Blue Origin flight), but also because DeBethune (DeBethune) prefers blue, so The blue as you can see is applied to almost every surface of DB28. The watch itself is 42.6 mm wide, uses a titanium case, uses "hand and natural processed metal" to achieve a blue finish, and is powered by an internally developed movement. Near the 6 o'clock position is a sphere that displays the moon phases in 3D. The number of such watches is very limited, and the price is usually around US$100,000.

Undoubtedly, this watch cannot be compared with watches such as Omega Speedmaster, which is actually a functional part of the astronaut kit, and the DB28 may be more suitable to be regarded as representing the love of space, technology and art. Michael Strahan is a "guest" of Blue Origin, a commercial space company founded by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, while the other four passengers pay for "space tourists". The other items he carries with him are also very interesting: a lucky 2 dollar bill, his Super Bowl XLII and professional football hall of fame ring, a sentimental pearl necklace, and 12 salutes with a 12-gun salute at his father’s funeral shell.

The launch is scheduled for December 11, 2021 [update: rescheduled from December 9]. The launch from Van Horn, Texas, is the 19th flight of the New Shepard spacecraft. If you are a fan of Strahan and Blue Origin, you can even buy a cooperative sweatshirt as a more affordable alternative to your watch.