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Thorens Riviera Shaver

The Apollo 14 mission carried a wind-up shaver, to allow the astronauts to shave without resorting to a blade and shaving cream.

That shaver was a Monaco shaver, and the manufacturer heavily marketed it as the "shaver that went to the moon."

Although this wind-up shaver implies that it is of a type carried on an Apollo mission, it appears that the Thorens Riviera shaver was manufactured by a different company and dates back to the 1950s. I could find no information to indicate that a Riviera flew on an Apollo mission.

This site has some information on the Thorens Riviera, including a number of vintage advertisements.

 
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