The Apollo 8 astronauts' feats inspired the all-black, ceramic Speedmaster Dark Side of the Moon, while its namesake's permanent and cyclical presence motivated the development of the "Black Black" variant.

This 44.25 mm timepiece features a polished and brushed black ceramic casebody, with a matte black ceramic dial and black ceramic buckle. Its blackened Moonwatch-style hands and blackened applied indexes have black Super-LumiNova coats. The subdials located at 3 and 9 o'clock are matte black, and the black ceramic bezel has a black lacquered tachymeter scale. The OMEGA Co-Axial calibre 9300 movement keeps it ticking.