Style Edit: Swatch’s Mission to Earthphase offers a stunning view of our planet – and it’s a watchmaking first in the Bioceramic MoonSwatch collection
Showcasing both moon and earth phases on its dial, the watch is a visual delight, with contrasts in the blue planet’s oceans, deserts and forest depicted in amazing detail
This is a fitting feat for a collection under the Omega x Swatch banner. Launched into orbit to a groundswell of approval in 2022, the Bioceramic MoonSwatch collection is a thoroughly modern ode to the historic Omega Speedmaster Moonwatch, which, on July 20, 1969, became the first timepiece to be worn on the moon. Such is the demand for the Bioceramic MoonSwatch collection that purchases are limited to one per customer per day per store.
The MoonSwatch chronographs have the asymmetrical case and dot over 90 on the bezel’s tachymeter scale of their famed moon-landing ancestor. The new release has the moon emblazoned on the battery cover, bearing the footprint of the first person on the moon, Neil Armstrong.
Mission to Earthphase’s grey granular dial – hinting of lunar dust – displays its groundbreaking subdial attractions at 10 and 2 o’clock: the patented Earth phase on the left, and the moon phase on the right. Depicted in glorious colour, our blue planet is seen from the moon – a view that has inspired would-be space explorers since the Apollo missions first beamed images back home – with the oceans coated in UV ink to emit a blue glow when exposed to ultraviolet light. Our world appears in amazing detail, from the forests and the deserts to the clouds.
Opposite, the moon is viewed in two discs (from the northern and southern hemispheres), its craters created using digital printing, and its lunar charms accentuated in the dark by white Super-LumiNova.
