The New Deep Cosmic Blue Hamilton Murph is Glorious

Hamilton's Khaki Murph Automatic is probably the most consequential watch tied to film in the history of all things horology.

The American-born watchmaker has breathed new life into the much-celebrated piece with a dial option that invokes the beautiful emptiness of the cosmos.

Fashioned in what it calls a deep blue cosmic blue dial, the Murph seems to look better the longer you look at these hombre hues that live smack dab in the middle.

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The bombshell of a dial announcement last week also came with Hamilton unveiling the Murph 38, after years of customers requesting a smaller size for the iconic design.

If you intend on buying the new deep cosmic blue dial Khaki Murph, it's going to set you back a bit around P72,000 on a steel, roughly the same as the other Murph variants.

In case you have been living under a rock, the Khaki Field Murph has its roots tied to space with the Academy Award-winning film Interstellar (2014), which also spawned the director's long-standing preference for the watch brand to be used in his films.

The watch is equipped with an 80-hour power reserve and a sapphire crystal (which also has an anti-reflective coating).

An honest-to-goodness military watch can be traced back to seeing astronaut Joseph "Coop" Cooper, portrayed by Matthew MacConaughey, leaving his Hamilton watch with his daughter in the aforementioned epic.

Hamilton eventually released that black-dialed watch to the public in 2019 and called it the Khaki Murph in honor of the film.

More recently, the watch brand forged a Khaki Field Auto celebrating Nolan's interpretation of the Greek epic The Odyssey, which was before the age of automatic wristwatches or even conventional clocks.

Hamilton Khaki Murph with the glorious deep cosmic blue dial.

Other brands like Rolex have pieces like the Explorers 1 and 2, but they are fundamentally different watches if we're basing it off the design ethos of military robustness and grit.

And cannonically, the 38 mm dial would fit Murphy Cooper's wrist better as she waited ardently for her dad, who was, as we eventually found out, her ghost.

Field watches for us are overlooked since they aren't as dressy as other Swiss Army knife options, like a diver's or a straight-up vintage tank-style piece.

The Khaki Field Auto Murph still retains the associated mechanical tool quality of watches in this family but now has this quality niche luxury piece like special edition Grand Seikos have with sunburst dial options you can fawn over and dress up for black tie functions.

Under the glass, this thing is powered by the reliable H-10 automatic caliber movement, though the finishing still leaves a lot to be desired.

The newest Murph may be the piece to get this year and one of those releases that shows character from the brand even if it is fundamentally just building on the ever-growing legacy of Coop's trusty wristwatch.

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