Watches Tell More Than Time

They shimmer. They sparkle. They take a bold stance.
Watches Tell More Than Time
Actress Ash Rai, Longines's global ambassador. Courtesy of Longines
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Actress Ash Rai, Longines's global ambassador. (Courtesy of Longines)
They shimmer. They sparkle. They take a bold stance. They also show the passing of hours and minutes in a most dependable way.

These top-line watches offer both elegance and dependability—they aren’t just show pieces that don’t keep good time. The workings inside are of the same high quality as the outer cases and dials. These are fancy ornaments and serious chronographs.

A commemorative piece from 2009 marking the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission, the OMEGA line’s Speedmaster looked back at its trip to the moon in 1969. In 2010, the company celebrated the 35th anniversary of the joint U.S.-Soviet mission—the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, with its first-ever cooperation between the two former rivals.

OMEGA made a limited edition of 1,975 of these watches, the dials of which are made of pieces cut from a meteorite that landed on Earth. According to a press release, OMEGA’s relationship with NASA continues today, and Speedmasters are still standard equipment for the astronauts on the International Space Station.