Today I'm partnered with Crown & Caliber to pair a Rolex Sea Dweller and an Omega Speedmaster with suitably classic cocktails.

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I'm so happy to be partnered with Crown and Caliber to bring you this cocktail double-header (That's right, TWO DRINKS!) and the first episode of a series I'm calling Watchtails, which is entirely about pairing iconic timepieces with cocktails appropriate to their pedigree. Yes, this is a blatant excuse to shoehorn together watches and cocktails, two things I'm sorta passionate about.

The first watch in this episode is a Rolex Sea Dweller, which is a dive watch for those who need to dive really deep, way deeper than a Submariner, like 4000 feet deep. I don't think humans can technically dive to 4000 feet, but this watch can, and that's crazy impressive. When I think about scuba diving though, I think about Jacques Cousteau, so in looking for a cocktail to pair this with I started by looking into Jacques's drinking preferences... I couldn't find any. So I witched gears to Wes Anderson's fictional version of Jacques, Steve Zissou from the Life Aquatic, and it seems that Steve loves his Campari. So I'm going with the classic Italian highball, the Americano.

Americano
1.5 oz. -or-45 ml. Campari
1.5 oz. -or- 45ml. Sweet Vermouth
Stir over ice
Top with 3 oz. -or- 90 ml. Club Soda
Garnish with a Twist of Orange

The second watch in this episode is an Omega Speedmaster. The Speedmaster's claim to fame is that it's the only watch certified by NASA for space operations, and was worn by the crew of the Apollo 11 when they went to the moon. You can actually see it on Neil Armstrong's wrist on the outside of his space suit! This Speedmaster happens to be one of Omega's commemorative "Moon Watch" issues with a sapphire crystal display case... which ironically makes it not actually suitable for space operations as the crystal could maybe sorta explode in the vacuum of space. Anyway, thinking about NASA, Apollo, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, the space race, the Saturn V rocket of course comes to mind, and that leads me to the Saturn Cocktail. A fantastic tiki drink from 1967, and the perfect compliment to this Omega Speedmaster Moon Watch. This version of the Saturn is an adaptation created by Garret Richard, Slowly Shirley, New York City

Saturn
.25 oz. -or- 8 ml. Passion Fruit Juice
.5 oz. -or- 15 ml. Lemon Juice
.25 oz. -or- 8 ml. Falernum
.5 oz. -or- 15 ml. Orgeat
1.5 oz. -or- 45 ml. Gin
Shake or Blend
Open pour
Garnish with Cherry & Lime peel "Saturn"

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