The 48 Best Watches for Men 2021
Our editors pick their favourite new and upcoming watches from big Swiss brands and under-the-radar newbies 27/01/2021
2021! The beginning of a brand new era which. feels a lot like the last. Your enervation is warranted. But empty fuel tanks aren t universal. In Switzerland, those big-ticket watch brands don t let a little pandemic get them down. On the contrary, our 2021 is already shaping up to be a banner year for great new watches.
Granted, said watch brands plan and schedule their big releases years in advance. And the Swiss are nothing if not punctual (it s not an unusual sight to see every single lab-coated watchmaker at their workspace at 9am on the dot), so it comes as little surprise that they ve got good stuff lined up – really, actually, genuinely good stuff from Rolex, Tag Heuer, Breitling and so on.
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Watches are bought to mark special milestones and occasions graduation, a birth, an anniversary. But watches themselves also mark great milestones in human history. And this cannot be truer for the Omega Speedmaster. The chronograph, born in 1957, found its calling as a piece of essential NASA-qualified equipment that accompanied NASA astronauts to the moon on the Apollo 11, and also helped bring NASA astronauts back to earth on the aborted Apollo 13 mission.
Since then, many of us consider the Speedmaster Moonwatch sacred nothing sparked more joy than when Omega revived the legendary Calibre 321 in 2019. The Calibre 321 was the original column wheel movement that powered the very first Speedmaster in 1957. Through tomography scanning, Omega was able to derive the new Calibre 321 that stayed true to the original version. The Speedmaster Calibre 321 “Ed White” in stainless steel, released that same year, instantly became a grail watch for collectors.