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 ...

Omega is celebrating the golden anniversary of the first moon landing by going gold. The Swiss watchmaker on Tuesday (March 12) revealed the Speedmaster Apollo 11 50th Anniversary Limited Edition, an ...

An indisputable fact about the Omega Speedmaster? It’s got one of the watch industry’s most impressive cult followings. Known as the Moonwatch for its unforgettable July 1969 trip to the moon (c/o ...

If you’re an Omega diehard, you better start rifling through the couch cushions, because you’re gonna need every spare penny: Neil Armstrong’s solid-gold Omega Speedmaster ref. BA145.022—one of just ...

Space travel has been in the news again, with the public mesmerized by the long-delayed return to Earth of the Boeing Starliner astronauts whose week-long voyage to the International Space Station ...

Omega has released a solid-gold Speedmaster “Moonwatch” to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the moon landings. Among other notable watchmaking developments in 1969, American astronauts went to the ...

Something interesting has happened to the bezel which, as you may know, usually features a tachymeter scale, originally designed for racing drivers to time average speeds on the track (the Speedmaster ...