And it was at that point I told them they would have to be alert, that maybe we’d have to go to the moon to withstand the catastrophe, and that although they didn’t know it, I had already started to prepare, since this watch that I have here, I told them, raising my left arm, this watch is the only one that tells time on the moon, it’s the only one that can keep us from going astray, this, the Omega Speedmaster Professional, the same one used by the astronauts on Apollo 11, when on that twentieth of July, 1969, they were the first in human history to walk on the surface of the moon.

From the story Omega, by Diego Zuñiga. Translated by Janet Hendrickson.


See also:
[Hernán Vanoli] [Federico Guzmán Rubio] [Javier González]