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Share Watches are bought to mark special milestones and occasions — graduation, a birth, an anniversary. But watches themselves also mark great milestones in human history. And this cannot be truer for the Omega Speedmaster. The chronograph, born in 1957, found its calling as a piece of essential NASA-qualified equipment that accompanied NASA astronauts to the moon on the Apollo 11, and also helped bring NASA astronauts back to earth on the aborted Apollo 13 mission. Since then, many of u...

Text size Omega kicked off the new year by upgrading one of watchmaking’s true icons, the Speedmaster Moonwatch, with the caliber 3861, a state-of-the-art movement delivering Master Chronometer performance that meets the highest standards of precision and magnetic-resistance in the industry. The 3861 will replace the workhorse Calibre 1861 in standard production Moonwatches after five decades. The new Speedmaster MoonwatchMaster Chronometer lineup consists of eight new 42mm models. In s...

The single best thing about this watch: It’s the one they wear to space. In 2024, NASA will send another pair of astronauts to the moon—including the first woman to land on that big hunk of cheese—as part of the Artemis Program. Teams are being sorted out, plans for a base camp on the moon’s surface have been unveiled, and presumably a partnership with Booking.com is on the horizon. When those astronauts do make those small steps on the lunar surface, they’ll almost definitely be wear...