The Mission To Earthphase Omega x Swatch MoonSwatch Is a World-First

a closeup view of a smartwatch dial featuring unique lunar graphics
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“Mission to my wallet”

“🔥 The next Mission to eBay?? 😂 😂”

“Shut up and take my money”

The comments under this week’s Instagram Swatch teaser have spoken – a new MoonSwatch is with us.

But the 27th Omega x Swatch collab since this all began just two years ago does actually have something new to offer.

The headline being that this is “the most complicated MoonSwatch ever made”.

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Swatch

“Complications” in watch language are anything above and beyond the basic functions that tell the time – so, a world timer is a complication, as is an alarm.

In the case of the new Mission to Earthphase, this is the first watch (of any kind!) to feature an “earthphase” function.

Swatch even has a patent for it.

You may be getting ahead of us here, but what this means is that as well as a more usual moonphase indicator – a function that shows the current phase of the moon, such as a new moon or a full moon, on a watch’s sub-dial, as Swatch already introduced in March with the Omega x Swatch Mission To Moonphase MoonSwatch (Snoopy) – the new watch shows the position of the Earth, as viewed from the moon.

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Swatch

Says Swatch: “Both the moon and the Earth take approximately 29.5 days to go through all their phases, but in reverse order. This means that, for instance, when we see a full moon from Earth, an observer on the moon would see a “new Earth,” and vice versa. This is also why the earthphase turns in the opposite direction to the moonphase”.

Yes, it’s safe to assume that anyone who owns this watch will be inhabiting planet Earth so while this function might be a world-first, it’s also somewhat useless – but that's nothing new in watches.

(When did you last see someone use the chronograph function to time motorsport?)

For another point of difference on this model, the rotating Earth is the only part of the watch rendered in colour, with the oceans coated with UV ink that glows blue under UV light.

Meanwhile, as per the Snoopy moonphase, the two moons at 2 o’clock are coated with SuperLumiNova and glow in the dark.

This watch has a light grey colour scheme across its case, crown and pushers, matched by a grey dial with a grainy texture, said to resemble the lunar surface.

It costs £288, and is available from select Swatch stores from 2 November.

You know the drill.

More details here.

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