The entire dial, hands, pushers and crown are all made of 18K Moonshine gold, Omega’s proprietary yellow gold alloy. Not only that, but this specific batch of Moonshine gold was made by melting down spare gold parts from Omega’s archives dating back to 1969, giving the watch a tangible connection to the year of the moon landing.
The dial and hands are both made of Omega’s 18K Moonshine gold alloy.Swatch
What’s most remarkable is that Swatch states each watch contains a whopping 11 grams of Moonshine gold. The alloy is made up of 75 percent pure gold, which means there’s about 8.25 grams of gold in each of these MoonSwatches. The current market price for such a quantity of gold is $1,065, which is almost double the SRP of this watch. So I don’t want to hear a single person complain that this watch is overpriced.
This abundance of real gold is complemented by a matte black Bioceramic case with a black Bioceramic bezel featuring a gold-printed tachymeter scale. The bezel features a glossy anti-scratch coating that makes it look like ceramic, with the same coating found on the caseback’s battery cover: a gold-colored moon. It features a footprint in the Sea of Tranquility, where the Apollo 11 astronauts took their first lunar steps, and the date of July 21, 1969, which was when those steps took place (this was six hours after the landing, hence the different date).
The battery cover features a glossy anti-scratch coating.Swatch
The dial features a printed 1960s-era Omega wordmark and an applied vintage Omega logo. The logo and applied indices are both in gold-tone, with the latter filled with black varnish for contrast. The three recessed subdials feature a circular pattern, and the domed crystal over the dial is made of the MoonSwatch’s usual “bio-sourced glass” material.
