Quoting Apollo 8’s Jim Lovell, who called the Moon “essentially grey,” this Speedmaster hides its best trick in plain sight, that moondust dial is solid platinum. Think of it as the sleeper car that smokes everything at the light. Pin-buckle, caliber 9300, and now retired from Omega’s lineup.

Presents itself in mint condition with little to no signs of wear. That sand-blasted platinum 950 dial shifts from matte to shimmer as your wrist moves, like grey snow catching headlights. Grey ceramic wraps the 44.25mm case in a shell that laughs off the scratches a steel watch picks up. A red-tipped chrono hand and red Speedmaster script cut through all the grey, the one splash of color in a black-and-white film.

Functions include hours, minutes, seconds, date, and chronograph. Unscrew the crown and pull it one click to jump the hour hand in one-hour steps, which also quick-sets the date both ways. Pull it all the way out to stop the seconds and set the time. Pusher at 2 o’clock starts and stops the chrono, pusher at 4 o’clock zeroes it. Green lume helps the hands, markers, and bezel details glow clearly in low light.

Born from the Apollo 8 mission that first rounded the far side of the Moon, the grey colorway turned an astronaut’s offhand line into something you can wear. Few other chronographs pair a platinum dial with space-grade ceramic anywhere near this money, and the 2025 redesign closed the book on this version. If you want a grail that rewards the people who know what they’re looking at, this is it.