Omega And Alinghi Set Sail With New Speedmaster Dark Side Of The Moon

With multiple events on the year's race calendar joining the long list of COVID-related cancellations, it's been a choppy ride for the 2020 sailing race calendar, but that hasn't stopped Omega from sailing on with not one, but now two unique seafaring watches for the crewmen of the two teams it's sponsoring Back in May, we were first presented with this special-edition Planet Ocean built to commemorate the 36th America's cup and to be worn by the New Zealand ETNZ team, which Omega has long supported Now we've got a limited new ceramic Speedmaster Dark Side of the Moon that flies the flag for Omega's newest sailing partnership: Switzerland's very own team Alinghi, who joined the Omega family in 2019 after concluding a long tenure with Audemars Piguet.

Price & Availability: $10,800 USD If this new reference looks a lot like 2018's Dark Side of the Moon 'Apollo 8' edition, it should - it's the same case and movement, embellished with a whole host of design elements that pay homage to the Lake Geneva-based Alinghi sailing team - starting with a carbon fiber dial, the likes of which we haven't seen on a Speedmaster since the titanium Solar Impulse GMT from the early aughts I'll come right out and say it: the Speedmaster is a lot of things, but it is rarely a sailing watch.

As far as I can tell, only once before with the X-33 Regatta produced for the New Zealand ETNZ sailing team back in 2017 Once again, like 2018's similarly styled Speedmaster Apollo 8, the new Alinghi Limited Edition is priced accordingly at $10,800 USD - roughly a $1000 premium on the aforementioned, though likely to account for Omega's long-rumored price increase due at the end of this summer. . Source