his issue of represents the final issue of 2020. And what a year it’s been, with global upheaval unlike anything that any of us has experienced in our lifetimes. And through it all, I have to say the creativity of the watch industry has offered me a much-welcome reprieve and escape from what has sometimes felt like a relentless tide of ominous news — in particular, watches like Omega’s incredible “Silver Snoopy Award” 50th Anniversary Speedmaster, which celebrates the mighty Swiss watch brand’s receiving of this coveted award for outstanding service back in 1970. The story of how a Speedmaster allowed Apollo 13’s astronauts to time their crucial 14-second rocket bursts to angle their crippled spacecraft, so that it would make it safely back to Earth and neither burn on re-entry nor bounce off the atmosphere, still resonates with us today. Says my friend Raynald Aeschlimann, the CEO of Omega, “The
