POST EDIT: Omega’s Speedmaster X-33 Marstimer watch will ensure no human forgets the time, even on Mars

Omega’s latest space watch, the Speedmaster X-33 Marstimer, has been designed with future Mars inhabitants in mind

Thanks to a new, ‘highly precise’ quartz movement it can tell the time on Mars and Earth and has a bezel that is the colour of the red planet’s distinctive dust

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Omega’s Speedmaster X-33 Marstimer watch gives its wearer the ability to measure every moment, whether they are on Earth or Mars. Photo; Omega

Published: 11:15am, 25 Oct 2022

We might not yet have landed on Mars, but Omega is ready all the same when we do.

The brand, which in 1957 created the Speedmaster – also known as Moonwatch for being the first watch worn on the moon – has designed a watch for future Mars inhabitants to wear.

The Speedmaster X-33 Marstimer gives its wearers the ability to measure every moment, whether they are on Earth or Mars.

Developed under a European Space Agency licence, Omega’s latest space watch can tell Martian time thanks to its ability to track a planet’s sol date and time at the prime meridian – when the imaginary line that runs through a planet from north to south is at 0 degrees longitude. This means it can automatically calibrate the length of a day on Mars, which is 39 minutes longer than on Earth.

American astronaut Buzz Aldrin wearing the Speedmaster X-33 Marstimer.

Symbols of Earth and Mars are featured on the dial so users can tell the difference in time between the two planets.