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After that, it travelled on all six manned moon missions, including the momentous Apollo 11 trip in July 1969, when astronaut Buzz Aldrin wore his on the lunar surface; and the notorious Apollo 13 the following year, when astronaut Jack Swigert’s Speedmaster was crucial in timing the burn that thankfully allowed the crew to return to Earth safely.

One of the most epoch-making of Omega’s jaunts beyond the stratosphere was the Apollo 8 mission of 1968, the first manned flight to orbit the moon. Naturally, the astronauts on board wore Speedmasters and in 2018, half a century on, their epic achievement was marked with a new Omega collection. The Speedmaster Dark Side of the Moon was a ceramic chronograph that recreated the moon’s surface, visible through its openworked dial.

Now, for 2024, the Dark Side of the Moon has been equipped with a new movement and subtly updated throughout. The new Calibre 3869, certified as a Coaxial Master Chronometer, showcases the moon in dramatic relief on its main plate and bridges. Offering improved definition over the earlier model, it again recreates both sides of the moon: the usual view from Earth on the dial side, and the mysterious dark side that the Apollo 8 astronauts saw on the back.

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The 44.25mm case and bezel come in black ceramic, with a tachymeter scale in white Grand Feu enamel, while the dial is in black anodised aluminium. Against the latter, a jaunty seconds hand in bright yellow pops and there’s also yellow detailing on the black rubber strap, while a grade 5 titanium small seconds hand in a subdial at 9 o’clock charmingly takes the form of the famous Saturn V rocket.

In another endearing touch, the caseback comes engraved with the message “We’ll see you on the other side”, the words command module pilot Jim Lovell said just before Apollo 8 moved beyond radio contact on the moon’s dark side.

All watch lovers crave absolute exclusivity and they’re guaranteed that with the second of the new spacefaring watches for 2024: the Constellation Meteorite. The Constellation collection takes its inspiration from the movement of the stars, and the Constellation Meteorite takes that to another level with each one having a unique dial, created from a slice of the 4.5 billion-year-old Muonionalusta meteorite, one of the oldest on Earth.

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The Constellation includes 20 watches, divided into four sizes. The largest, the 41mm Coaxial Master Chronometer, features a rhodium-grey dial and black PVD hands, indexes and Constellation star. The 29mm Coaxial Master Chronometer comes with a PVD Moonshine Gold dial, offset by diamond hour markers and a diamond-paved bezel. The dial of the 28mm watches, meanwhile, come in icy blue, with diamond hour markers; and the 25mm watches show off a lilac dial, with diamonds for the bezel and hour markers. Both also feature a Constellation Observatory medallion on the caseback.