Swatch has unveiled a total of five new watches with NASA inspiration that are set to hit stores in June. Space exploration, of course, is a never ending source of inspiration for watch design, with watches being inextricably linked to NASA?s history. To the extent that watches signify ideas of adventure, there?s really no greater adventure than traveling outside the bonds of earth, so watches worn by astronauts and NASA personnel hold a special place for many. Swatch?s approach here isn?t to replicate actual space worn watches, but to take bits of iconic and transpose them to Swatch?s already funky house design language. The result is a series of charming, modern, space linked watches that are certainly worthy of nerding out on if you happen to be a NASA enthusiast. 
Three of the five watches in the new collection are part of Swatch?s ?Big Bold?? line. The name of the product here is fairly self-explanatory: these are 47mm quartz watches, all of which have been rendered in Swatch?s new ?Bioceramic? case, which is composed of two-thirds ceramic and one-third bio sourced plastic. According to Swatch, the material that comes out of this process has a silk like touch with the resiliency one would expect from ceramic. 
Each of these new Big Bolds is based on an iconic NASA space suit. The Big Bold Chrono Extravehicular is a three register chrono with a white case and strap, and is inspired by suits first worn in 1983 by Story Musgrave and Donald Peterson. The white ...