The Omega Speedmaster is perhaps the greatest tool watch in history. Created in the 1950s as a timing instrument for auto racing — it was the first watch to put a tachymeter on an external bezel — it ...

From Nasa's punishing 1965 trials, to the Speedmaster Moonphase Meteorite, 'reverse panda' and X-33 - this is how a space ...

Omega’s new Speedmaster Moonwatch is ready for lift-off. The Swiss watchmaker just debuted a version of the timepiece with a lacquered white dial that nods to its historical ties with space ...

The Ref. BA 145.022 was given to the first man on the moon at a gala dinner in Houston’s Warwick Hotel on November 25, 1969, mere months after Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the lunar surface.

Even within watch-collecting circles, the fandom expressed by devotees of Omega’s Speedmaster chronograph sets a high bar for both passion and pedantry. Every new edition of the design, first ...

An “incredibly rare” 1969 Omega Speedmaster watch once owned by astronaut Michael Collins–who was part of the Apollo 11 mission, the first to put a man on the moon–is up for auction. On Tuesday ...

Buzz Aldrin walks on the moon during Apollo 11, with the Omega Speedmaster on his wrist. James H. Ragan, former NASA project engineer and program manager, said the watch had since disappeared. By ...

This is an edition of the newsletter Box + Papers, Cam Wolf’s weekly deep dive into the world of watches. Sign up here. I thought I understood how big a deal Omega and Swatch’s MoonSwatches were when ...

Just over a year ago Omega announced that it has partnered with the celebrated Swiss yacht racing team Alinghi. On Tuesday this partnership produced a new timepiece, the Omega Speedmaster Dark Side of ...

Underneath the belly of the Saturn 5 rocket, the very one that helped 10 separate crews of astronauts escape our atmosphere and make those massive-for-mankind steps, George Clooney is having a hell of ...