Victor Vescovo

Thank you for the invitation.

It's quite a privilege.

Yes.

Yeah, it's a rather unique timepiece.

I'm a brand ambassador for Omega.

And before even that, I really admire their timepieces.

And I needed a precision waterproof timepiece to wear on all my dives to the five oceans.

It had to be a chronometer.

So I picked up a titanium Seamaster.

And this timepiece has now been with me on every dive I've ever made.

It's been to 17 deep ocean trenches.

It made all 15 dives to Challenger Deep, the deepest point in the ocean.

I also took it into space with me.

And so it's been my trusted companion on a lot of my different adventures.

Yeah, it has indeed.

Wow.

A few emergencies deep in the water.

Not many people know it, but during the Apollo 13 disaster, they relied on their omegas to do the timed burn on their way back to Earth that allowed them to do a proper reentry.

So it's actually a piece of safety equipment for a submersible that you need an analog time instrument in case everything else fails, which is what happened on Apollo 13.

And so when you're in a submersible, if there's a big emergency and all your electronics go down, you can keep precise time.