Cosmic Wonder

The greatest watch icon in space exploration celebrates its big 6-0 by going all out for women.

- Kenny Loh

Three years ago, with a teeny bit of courage, the right gut feeling and a funny voice inside my head telling me to “buy it or regret it for life”, I acquired a special commemorative version of the one watch I’d my eye on since the very first day I started writing about luxury tickers.

It was an incredibly handsome, individually-numbered Omega Speedmaster which was launched in 2011 to mark 40 years since Nasa’s Apollo 15 space mission. Like the classic Speedmaster Professional, or Speedy, as affectionately referred to in watch speak, that timepiece had a robust case and bracelet fashioned in steel; a sleek tachymeter in black aluminium; and a black dial protected by a shatterproof hesalite crystal.