Omega Speedmaster Professional Moonwatch Silver Snoopy 45th Anniversary Luxury Watch Review

Watchuwant is now WatchBox! Subscribe for the best luxury watch content. Omega Silver Snoopy Speedmaster Hands-on Review When Omega releases an Apollo 13 commemorative Speedmaster Professional Moonwatch, failure is not an option. As the sequel to 2003's Speedmaster Professional Silver Snoopy Award, the 2015 Apollo 13 45th Anniversary Speedmaster Professional Moonwatch Silver Snoopy Award raises Omega's game in every respect. More exclusive, more distinctive, and more memorable than its predecessor, the latest 1,970-piece limited edition Speedmaster Professional is ready to satisfy the hardest of the hardcore Omega enthusiasts. At 42mm in stainless steel, the Speedmaster Professional Moonwatch Silver Snoopy presents a familiar profile, but the dial is anything but routine. The white dial with black hands and elaborate graphics is unlike anything in the contemporary Omega Speedmaster catalog. Within the constant seconds subdial, Peanuts comic stalwart Snoopy the Dog (a NASA mascot since 1968) has been rendered in a solid block of Super LumiNova glowing material. Snoopy's comic-style thought bubble, "Failure is not an option," reprises a line made famous by Ed Harris in Ron Howard's "Apollo 13" motion picture. From the index at 12 to the 14-second mark of the primary dial, fourteen comic-style cells trace the arc of a second phrase "What could you do in 14 seconds?" This was the timed period of the mid-course rocket thrust course correction by Apollo 13 astronauts... time