Omega Celebrates The Silver Snoopy Award’s 50th Anniversary With New Speedmaster Moonwatch

It's awfully difficult to keep a secret when Speedmaster faithful have long-known good and well that 2020 would be the 50th anniversary of the Omega Speedmaster being awarded NASA's prestigious "Snoopy Award" for its pivotal role in helping the Apollo 13 crew avert total disaster in 1970 After a year's worth of speculation, the 50th Anniversary Silver Snoopy Award Speedmaster is here, and not only is this new stainless steel reference not a limited edition, is it an absolute stunner with a few very whimsical details - including an animated caseback - that create a very thoughtful connection between the Speedmaster, NASA's prestigious Silver Snoopy award, and the universe of the beloved Peanuts comic itself The Silver Snoopy Award is one of NASA's SFA awards, which recognize NASA employees and its contractors "For outstanding achievements related to human flight safety or mission success" The award itself is a space-flown sterling silver lapel pin with the likeness of Snoopy presented by a NASA astronaut to the honoree with a letter of commendation.

After the Speedmaster proved its muster in helping save the lives of the astronauts aboard the Apollo 13 mission, the Speedmaster was presented the Snoopy award, and the rest is watch history Rendered with an AG 925 silver dial with high contrast PVD-coated blue elements, this new iteration echoes other past Omega limited editions like the Speedmaster CK 2998 LE which also used a similar blue-on-white color story, deploying a cheerful blue panda dial that pretty dramatically contrasts the stark black-on-white "Comic strip" aesthetic of the Silver Snoopy Award 45th anniversary edition released back in 2015 Omega has made some pretty impressive technological developments since 2015, and this new Silver Snoopy Award watch makes full use of all of them - from the new Master Chronometer-certified Calibre 3861 chronograph movement to the laser-ablated 9 o'clock register that's rendered the Snoopy medallion in extremely crisp relief.

Once again, this Omega Speedmaster commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Silver Snoopy Award is neither numbered nor a formal limited edition. . Source