Vogue celebrates a landmark OmegaWatches collaboration that was one small step for a jeweller, a giant leap for watchmaking.
The year 1969 was a momentous one for Omega. The Swiss watchmaker went out of this world on not one, but two historic adventures. First, an Omega Speedmaster was on the wrist of Buzz Aldrin when he became the second man to step onto the moon. Then, the brand commissioned Andrew Grima, London’s Swinging Sixties jeweller to the stars and the royal family, to create, a collection of one-of-a-kind watches that was unlike anything the world had seen before or has seen since.
“He wasn’t your typical watch-making guy, he knew how to elevate watches and make them universally appealing,” says Petros Protopapas, Omega’s head of brand heritage.Forster spotted Grima’s talent for pushing the boundaries of design, granting him complete creative control despite the fact that the jeweller had no previous watchmaking experience. Grima, whose birth was a century ago last year, let his imagination go interstellar.
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