August 2023: Essentially the most hyped MoonSwatch receives a shiny sequel. Omega and Swatch tease and drop the Moonshine Gold Mission to Neptune MoonSwatch (our kingdom for a replica editor!) which updates one of many authentic MoonSwatch fashions with Omega’s Moonshine-gold luster. The excellent news, GQ contributor Oren Hartov writes, is that there is yet one more MoonSwatch in the marketplace. The dangerous information? “We don’t assume this one’s gonna be any simpler to snag than any of the earlier entries within the collection.”
January 2024: Omega and Swatch add a 3rd occasion to the combo—a sure widely-beloved beagle with a penchant for howling on the moon. On the time, particulars are scarce on what the GQ-dubbed “MoonSnoopy” will really seem like, however collectors of each stripe are anticipated to go nuts for it. Like lots of its counterparts in Japan, London, and, extra lately, Cupertino, Omega has a protracted historical past with Charles Schulz’s cartoon pup, which lends the shock tie-up a selected kind of logic.
Snoopy-themed Speedys “rank among the many hottest Omega releases round,” GQ contributor Oren Hartov writes, “frequently promoting out regardless of their lofty retail costs and infrequently going for giant cash on the secondary market.” His suggestion then? Begin lining up: The mere prospect of a MoonSwatch x Snoopy mashup is sufficient to work the watch world right into a tizzy.
March 2024: Two years after the unique MoonSwatch dropped in a dozen colourful variants, the all-white MoonSwatch Mission to the Moonphase (or “MoonSnoopy”, in GQ parlance) hits shops. It goes over in addition to anticipated. It is also the primary mannequin within the collaborative assortment with a moonphase complication, albeit one with Snoopy resting on the pockmarked lunar floor.
April 2024: A mere 10 days after teasing a second Mission to Moonphase MoonSwatch on Instagram, Omega and Swatch drop a blacked-out model of the MoonSnoopy, concurrently hinting at extra to come back.
August 2024: Omega and Swatch drop the Mission to the Tremendous Blue Moonphase MoonSwatch, which contains a uncommon pulsometer scale. As GQ contributor Oren Hartov reviews, the watch was solely out there from August 1st via August nineteenth “to coincide with the dates of the total moon, and solely throughout ‘blue hours’ from 5 p.m. onward”—and solely in choose Swatch boutiques. MoonSwatch followers, the sport’s afoot!
September 2024: In the end, the MoonSwatch makes its manner on-line. Up till this level, GQ contributor Jeremy Freed writes, “in the event you needed a MoonSwatch you had two choices: line up in a single day in entrance of your closest Swatch retailer or pay a grey market flipper to do the legwork for you.” Now, greater than two years because the MoonSwatch’s riot-inducing first drop, it’s lastly out there immediately through Swatch.com…kind of.
The rollout is restricted to only 4 of the 11 authentic Omega x Swatch Bioceramic MoonSwatch fashions—Mission on Earth, Mission to the Solar, Mission to Mars, and Mission to the Moon—and would not embrace subsequent bangers just like the Mission to Moonshine Gold collection or the Mission to the Moonphase. (Stock can also be restricted to clients within the US and China.) Given how lengthy we’ve needed to wait up to now, although, even Houston would contemplate {that a} fairly minor downside.
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