Virtual Swatch Museum

The usual disclaimer:   I don't know how to obtain the watches. Please don't ask.

Check out a brief "History of Swatch 1979-1984"

Swatch events in the past

Here is an overview of the reports about different Swatch events that I have attended (more than 80 :-) or at least written or published a small report about:

Swatch Ads

Swatch has always made good and sometimes funny advertisements for their watches (remember the excellent How Long Is A Swatch Minute? ad campaign from last year?).  So it is time now to archive some of the ads...

First room: Old Swatch Ads from the 80s

Destination City specials

A (hopefully complete) list of the Destination specials!

Swatch Access Specials and Specials with a new strap

I am trying to compile two lists of special swatches:
• A list of all swatch access specials released so far. The 'generic' access swatches Freeride (SKK100) and Clearance (SKK103) have been released with many different straps for various occasions. But there are other access specials as well.
• A list of swatches that have been rereleased by swatch with a new strap. This is probably very incomplete.
If you have any additions/corrections, please email. PLEASE! Don't be lazy. Contribute. I know that there are a lot of things missing.

First room: Access Specials list

Second room: Information about Access Swatches by Chris Johnson

Kiki Picasso Swatch

Swatchissimo differences

Swatchissimo is simply the best coffee table book about Swatch watches.  Go and get one for your collection, you won't regret it.  It has many valuable details about the (early) history of Swatch watches and almost 400 pages with great photos of Swatch watches.  Recently, I discovered some subtle differences between the first (December 1991) and the second printing (marked "March 1992" on the last page).

Swatch Special Packagings

Swatch has released many different special packagings for their watches so far. Many of them were only available in local markets or they were made for special events. For those of you who think that they own everything:  Please take a walk through the following pages and see what you are missing. The photos below were taken by the Swatch collector Jirco Bondy and appeared in the German magazine Creativ Uhr (1/97). They are used without permission.

First room: Older Specials

Autographed Swatches

The following page contains pictures of several autographed swatches. Have a look!

First room: Autographed Swatches

Lionel Vasselle maintains a list of the designers / artists who have designed a swatch. A very handy list if you collect autographed swatches (see above). Don't forget to come back to this site :-)

First room: Swatch Designers

The following pages contain pictures of the Atlanta medalist packagings and the swatch gold member card. Thanks to you-know-who :-)

First room: Medalist packagings

The next pages contain pictures of some nice swatches that everyone is trying to obtain... Nothing too interesting, you have been warned. Browse at your own risk.

First room: Click here, Jerry!

In 1993, Swatch released a so called Production Box. Hans van Buuren has a page which explains quite a lot about this box so I won't repeat it here. I just want to show my box here since I had to scan it for a different purpose.

First room:  Here is my box

An asian swatch collector friend has sent me a very complete list of swatch specials ever produced. If you browse through the list, you'll see that there are a lot of things missing in Bonello!

First room:  List of swatch specials
 
 

Here are some swatch sites:

  (best non-commercial picture site by Michael, highly recommended!)

http://vendomestore.free.fr/  Pictures of Vendôme swatches
Yasuhiro Minato (a good friend from Japan)
Lyndon's Swatch Corner (Singapore)
Patrick von Dach's Swatchlover's site (Switzerland)