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Swatch x Omega Moonswatch Mission to Earthphase

MoonSwatch Mission To Earthphase

Celebrating our blue-green bauble home on Christmas Eve

On Christmas Eve, we feel it is appropriate to bring you the recently released MoonSwatch Mission to Earthphase, a first in terms of our planet’s appearance from space featuring as a complication in a wristwatch. It celebrates the first time that human eyes saw our planet rising on the horizon, a photograph taken by Bill Anders aboard the Apollo 8 on Christmas Eve 1968.

Without a doubt, the Swatch x Omega MoonSwatch collaboration has been one of the noted new watch series in the 2020s. It cleverly uses the design codes of Omega’s iconic Speedmaster, the first watch on the Moon, with an innovative bioceramic material in an array of colours that incorporate space mission themes. It started with a collection including our satellite, all planets – including Earth – and the Sun in March 2022. They were an immediate success.

Similar in design and colouring to the Speedmasters worn by astronauts, the Swatch x Omega MoonSwatch Mission to Earthphase on its Velcro strap.

New iterations were released in 2023 and 2024, but this year, when it came to our planet, the creatives at the Swatch…

Christmas bells
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The Magic of Sound

Luxury chiming watches full of seasonal charm

Christmas is synonymous with the chiming of bells. Chiming watches – also known as striking watches – combine exquisite craftsmanship with the elegance of sound. They use gongs – hammers – to produce exceptional examples of auditory beauty. However, creating a loud, clear sound is a real challenge for even the most experienced watchamakers. That’s why only […]

Lamborghini Temerario
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Lamborghini Temerario

Raging against the dying V10 light

The new Lamborghini Temerario – named after a Spanish bull that fought in the arena of Madrid in 1875 – is a crucial model for Lamborghini, designed to take over the super sports car baton from the Huracán. The Huracán is nearing the end of production with a full order book. Nearly 30,000 units of the […]

Slim d’Hermès GMT and L’Heure De La Lune

by James Gurney

(Opening image: Slim d’Hermes GMT Rose Gold ) The last decade has seen Hermès edge closer to centre-stage in the watch world, demanding and receiving equal billing with larger and longer-established maisons. Two launches at this year’s digital-only Watches & Wonders show exactly why. As part-owners of Vaucher Manufacture, Hermès have access to high quality […]

Sports And Romance, The Cartier Pasha

by Dr Andrew Hildreth

(Opening image: Cartier Pasha – the original model from 1985.) Although we would all like to believe, just because of the romance of it, that the Pasha was originally designed by Cartier for the Pasha of Marrakesh in 1933, the reality is that it was first debuted in 1985 and was intended to be their […]

Breaking Moulds: The Independents

by Dr Andrew Hildreth

Opening image: Speake Marin ONE & TWO Openworked Tourbillon. In this day and age new watch releases from independent manufacturers tend to occur throughout the year. That said, a number have saved their new creations for Watches & Wonders 2020. Speake Marin have continued to develop their “One&Two” openworked tourbillon design with their in-house self-winding […]

The Skill Of The Technocrat

by Dr Andrew Hildreth

Despite all the troubles this year, Vacheron Constantin have not disappointed, unless you count ours, sequestered in our own houses and unable to see their creations. First up is a spectacular pair of perpetual calendars for the Overseas collection. They are impressive on a number of dimensions: housed in the iconic rose gold Overseas case […]

[Re]master01 by Audemars Piguet

by Dr Andrew Hildreth

A new classic has been born If there is one thing that watch manufacturers have learned over the last few years, it’s that vintage aesthetics sell (see the latest issue of I-M Magazine). New model lines and designs might be launched with a great deal of fanfare but introduce a watch with a well-loved bygone […]

Max Busser & Friends HM10 “Bulldog”

by Dr Andrew Hildreth

The right watch for these troubled times This has not been the easiest time for the watch industry.  All watch fairs, even the makeshift ones, have been cancelled.  Non-essential stores have been closed-and would you believe it, that includes luxury watch boutiques, and people are quarantined in their homes in most countries around the world.  […]

New Discovery Sport

New Discovery Sport

The Land Rover Discovery has been synonymous to adventure and resilience since the very beginning back in 1989, when the first one rolled off the production line, as a more affordable option to the Range Rover. In 2015, the Discovery family became two with the introduction of its smaller sibling, the Discovery Sport. Land Rover […]

Back to the future

by Simon de Burton

The new classic you can buy today Owners of classic cars (me included) are always careful to include at least one pair of rose-tinted spectacles in their toolboxes, together with a large helping of optimism and an unwaveringly stoic attitude because, as much as I hate to admit it, they rarely get you from A […]

BMW 2 Series Gran Coupè

by Jeremy Webb

BMW has launched its 2 Series Gran Coupè, aimed at a younger driver new to the brand, who wants a sporty four-door car. As the current trend is downsizing, BMW has responded by putting the 2GC into its range hoping to capture customers who would be looking at the Audi A3 or Mercedes CLA. I-M […]

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