Space age watches
But what time is it?
The future fills me with anxiety. I get hives just trying to figure out how to work my TV remote. I’ve had near-death experiences trying to connect Spotify to my car speaker. Imagine my horror (and awe) at this year’s watch trend: space.
I appreciate haute horology. It’s an art form. When the watches themselves resemble actual works of art and come in at more or less the same price as a space rocket, I start sliding off my chair. Is it possible to be both a geek and a technocrat? I think so.
As someone who doesn’t like to be reminded of the time or my impending death, I like a piece of wrist technology that does something cool and makes reading the time somewhat of a challenge. I own several diving watches and a slap bracelet for more or less the same reason. Now let me introduce you to the Ulysse Nardin Blast Moonstruck watch. It’s exquisite. It reproduces the moon’s rotation and the sun’s apparent movement around the globe as we observe it from Earth because, honestly, who likes staring into the sun? And it even has a tidal chart.
Now look at MB&F’S HM9 series, a curvilinear jet engine for your wrist, the sort James Bond would wear in a remake of Moonraker.
Or even MB&F’S HM8 series, which I love because it’s bonkers. It’s like stepping into HG Wells’s The Time machine, where all the numbers jump around, and you never really know when or where you are.