LuxuryWatchesMore than two years on, is the MoonSwatch still worth it?I’m late to the MoonSwatch party, but that doesn’t matterWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
LuxuryWatchesMore than two years on, is the MoonSwatch still worth it?I’m late to the MoonSwatch party, but that doesn’t matterWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
I’m late to the MoonSwatch party, but that doesn’t matter
When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
(Image credit: Future)
(Image credit: Future)
Finally, more than two years after queuing for hours outside Swatch’s Covent Garden shop, only for it to not open due to security concerns, I’m now the owner of a MoonSwatch.
A lot has happened in those two-and-a-half years, and Swatch certainly hasn’t shied away frommilking the MoonSwatch cash cow for all it’s worth. But now, finally, buying 2022’s hottest watch is now just a case of walking into a Swatch store and picking your favourite.
In my case, I went for the Mission to Pluto. Back at the 2022 launch I had my aim focused on the Mission to Moon, since it looked most like a proper Omega Speedmaster, and the vaguely Tiffany Blue-coloured Mission to Uranus (are we still allowed to giggle at that one? Good.) How times, and taste inwatches, change.
(Image credit: Future)
(Image credit: Future)
I’ve always been a firm believer that straps can make watches. I’vewritten about the joy of straps beforeand I can’t wait to start experimenting with MoonSwatches.
The result is a watch that looks almost identical to the Omega original, but with a strap that appears as if it fell not from Space, but from one of those sliding 2p machines in a seaside arcade.
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(Image credit: Future)
(Image credit: Future)
Until the Seventh Creation strap arrives, I’ve swapped out the Mission to Pluto’s strap for a spare leather number I already owned. I’d bought it for myvintage Longines, but mistakenly ordered the wrong size. Thankfully it fits the MoonSwatch, and while it isn’t quite a match to the dark red tachymeter and sub-dials, the brown leather isn’t a million light years away, and it helps elevate the Swatch massively.
Was the MoonSwatch worth the wait? Truth be told, I should have tried harder to buy one sooner.
It’s a gorgeous timepiece; one of those watches I can’t stop looking at, whether I need to know the time or not. And despite being plastic (sorry, ‘bioceramic’), its shape feels exactly like the Omega Speedmaster I used to own. The edge of the tackymeter and the raised crystal feel especially faithful to the space-going original. It brings back fond memories of my first ‘proper’ watch, and I can’t really put a price on that. I wonder how the plastic crystal will hold up to daily use, and whether a tube of trusty Polywatch can remove scratches as it does so well with the Hesalite crystal of the Omega. Time will tell.
(Image credit: Future)
(Image credit: Future)
For now, I’m very happy with my purchase and I can’t wait to build up a small collection of MoonSwatches – complete with quality, colour-matched leather straps, originality be damned.
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