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The wristwatch has become a redundant tool. With a simple glance towards the screen, we all have permanent- ly affixed to our palm, we know with absolute precision and accuracy what time it is. Type a few symbols into a
search box and we can know the time elsewhere, anywhere too. So, why do we still clamour for these superfluous trinkets?
More than ever before, we think the answer lies in what watch industry icon Jean-Claude Biver once said: “Look at your watch. Don’t look at what time it is.”. There are details to ponder, mechanicals to marvel at and memories of adventures and relationships past to reflect on with every twist of our wrists. So redundant yes, but watches will never be irrelevant. With that in mind, here are a few examples that we feel are worth looking at.
Omega MoonSwatch When Swatch tapped their in-house partner Omega to collaborate on an inexpensive celebration of Omega’s iconic Moonwatch (Speedmaster Professional), the horological world collectively lost its mind. Fast for- ward a couple of years and the fervour surrounding the release has calmed but the partnership certainly hasn’t. The latest MoonSwatch to join the growing collection is the Mission to Earthphase, which delivers all of the same iconic style and quirk of the originals but adds a set of interesting complications. In celebration of the Moon and the Earth, the Mission to Earthphase sacrifices two of its chronograph sub- dials for both a moon phase and earth phase function. At the two o’clock side of the dial, two moons coat- ed in white, Super-LumiNova can be seen rotating on the moon phase disc. Over at the 10 o’clock position, an earth phase function, that depicts how the Earth appears when viewed from the moon, according to its corresponding ‘phase.’ The Earth that is depicted on the sundial disc has oceans that are coated with unique UV ink that emit a blue glow under UV light. There are even digitally-printed moon ‘craters’ that lie beneath the sundial to deliver the ‘viewing from the moon’ aesthetic. As a package, it delivers a playful- ness and cool factor that can be truly tough to find at this price point ($405 CDN) Like all of the MoonSwatch series, the 42mm case is constructed from Swatch’s Bioceramic composite
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