St. Petersburg, FL – BALL Watch USA Honors Astronaut that took BALL Watch into Space! BALL Watch has announced the release of a new Limited Edition (1,000 pieces) – The Engineer Hydrocarbon Spacemaster Captain Poindexter. Features include: a diameter of 41.5mm and height of 16.1mm. The steel piece is powered by an automatic caliber ETA 2836-2, chronometer certified COSC movement and has 80 tritium micro gas tubes on the hour, minute, second hands, and dial for unmatched luminosity. The watch is water resistant to 333m, shock resistant to 7,500Gs, as well as antimagnetic to 12,000 A/m.
As the Captain of the Shuttle Discovery in April 2010, Alan Poindexter wore the Engineer Hydrocarbon into space and the International Space Station. Tragically, in 2012 Poindexter died in a jet-ski accident in Florida leaving his wife and two sons behind. One son, Samuel Pheiffer Poindexter suffers from severe autism and is in need of care 24 hours per day.
BALL Watch is contributing a portion of the sale of each Limited Edition watch towards the Samuel Pheiffer Poindexter Special Needs Trust to assist in his care.