Recent Swatch info (Last updated: 28-NOV-2021)

• WANTED! Mimmo Paladino (#021/100). I am asking for your help:  The Mimmo Paladino Swatch (#021/100) has been stolen on its way from the UK to Germany.  Apparently, the package was opened during transport (with TNT Express) and the watch (incl. the metal box) was taken out of the parcel.  If this watch shows up somewhere or is being offered for sale:  Please inform me so that I can forward the info.....
• WANTED! Perfect Timing Swatch (#332/700). I am asking for your help. The following bad incident has happened to a friend of mine without internet access: The Perfect Timing Swatch (#332/700) has been stolen on its way from the USA to Germany. Apparently, the package was opened during transport and the watch (including the plexi glass tube) was taken out of the parcel. The outer white cardboard tube was still in the parcel and can be seen here. If this watch shows up somewhere or is being offered for sale (remember that it will come without the white paper tube), I would be VERY happy if you could inform me about the seller. This watch has been STOLEN!  Back to the regular news service:
• SwatchXYou Black Friday Retail collection.  The pre Xmas shopping event Black Friday is 'celebrated' on 26-NOV.  Swatch Germany sent out an email with details about a SwatchXYou Black Friday Retail collection (will be available in selected Swatch Stores in Germany).  By mistake, this email was also sent to collectors in Italy and USA.  12 different SwatchXYou watches (3 different canvases with 4 watches each) will be available in a special "Black Friday" packaging:  1. Shopping Mall will be available in eight different Swatch stores in Germany;  2. Der Knaller! ("the blast") in six stores;  3. Schöner Kleben! ("glue more beautifully") will be the most rare as it will be available only in Frankfurt and Hamburg.  These watches are 'extremely limited' and they will be available only on one day only:  Black Friday (26-NOV).  Update: Here is a photo of the actual Shopping Mall and Der Knaller! watches.  The watches are packaged in a special black "26.11.2021" paper sleeve.  Here is a photo of two specials from 2020 and 2021 with the packaging.
• Swatch X Peanuts collection.  Swatch is hinting at an upcoming Swatch X Peanuts collection, to be released on 04-NOV.  Update / Spoiler:  Eric Bressoud saw this advertisement in a store in Sion (Switzerland). And you can find all the details of the collection (incl. photos) here in this press release.  Update 2:  The Swatch X Peanuts collection is now available for sale.  It consists of six colourful and cute Bio-sourced Swatch watches (not limited):  1. Gent Grande Bracchetto (SO28Z107, paper sleeve, "Snoopy");  2. New Gent Pow Wow (SO29Z101, paper sleeve, "Charlie Brown"); 3. New Gent Smak! (SO29Z108, paper sleeve, "Peanuts Comic Strip");  4. Gent Klunk! (SO28Z106, paper sleeve, "Lucy") ;   5. New Gent Hee Hee Hee (SO29Z106, paper sleeve, "Snoopy and Woodstock");  6. New Gent First Base (SO29Z107, paper sleeve, "Peanuts Gang").  If you buy all six watches in your local Swatch store, you might be able to get a super nice gift with purchase (not too many pieces per country!):  A wooden frame that can hold all six Swatch X Peanuts watches.  In Asia, a cute Swatch X Peanuts shopping bag and gift packaging (XMas theme?!?) is available.  A limited Maxi Hee Hee Hee (MSO29Z106, 380 EURO, 444 pcs(?)) was sold online only on 09-NOV.  It sold out instantly worldwide (still available in Poland and Russia after several hours).  The Maxi is packaged in a special blue Peanuts design Maxi box, wonderful!  For a short time, the Swatch website had an error, listing 41mm Gent (not New Gent!) Swatch watches.  Esquire magazine talks about a seventh Peanuts Swatch watch, packaged in a "red Snoopy dog bowl" (Christmas related?).  Update 3: Starting 18-NOV, several cute Peanuts SwatchXYou (canvas 1, canvas 2, canvas 3) will be available as presented here and here.  The SwatchXYou packaging will also have some "Peanuts theme" attributes. Update 4: In addition to the three "custom, individual design" Peanuts SwatchXYou, six "prefabricated" Peanuts SwatchXYou are available (scroll down!).  These prefabricated Peanuts SwatchXYou are sold with a special sleeve and postcard!  The "Drive Through" Swatch store at the Swatch HQ in Biel now has a huge inflatable Snoopy on its roof! and the Peanuts Gang is in Swatch HQ too! You can print your custom made SwatchXYou also instore (eg. Japan).  Update 5:  It seems that the marketing budget for SwatchXPeanuts is a bit bigger than usual:  1. A nice SwatchXPeanuts display at the Oxford Circus tube station in London.  2. SwatchXPeanuts ads on several NYC subway trains running across one side of the entire subway car.  Thanks to Alexandre Brunner and Roberta Kleiman for the photo and to Thomas Töpler for the update.
  
• Sixth Hodinkee Swatch special.  On 29-NOV, the sixth Hodinkee Swatch special will be released.
• Zurich Flagship store.  The Swatch Zurich Flagship store is now completely "dressed up" in SwatchXPeanuts design.  Check out this great in-store video on Instagram.
• Black Friday / Singles’ Day SwatchXYou.  A Singles' Day SwatchXYou (canvas) is now available in several markets in Asia.  Update:  This SwatchXYou canvas is now also available in Europe for Black Friday 'celebrations'.  Thanks to Joachim Meyer for the hint.
• Olympic Museum special.  A nice new special Starting Block (SO29Z111) is now available at the Olympic Museum in Lausanne (Switzerland). Thanks to Fabien Zwahlen for the information and photo.
• Snoopy Xmas special.  As announced here, a 7th watch will be added to the Swatch X Peanuts collection soon:  A cute red New Gent Biosourced Snoopy Xmas special Chomp! (SO29Z109, 140 EURO) will be available in early December.
• Swatch monogram design competition.  Swatch and PROSPECT 100 are inviting young designers to respond the brief, 'What if... Swatch were to have a monogram'.  You can participate at this global design competition until 10-DEC.  The design competition winner gets $10000 US prize money and can work on an official collaboration with Swatch.  Read all the details here.  "Design a Swatch monogram (motif/pattern) that could not only be applied on watches, but present as well on digital platforms, shopping bags, retail environments, uniforms, etc. Please do not feel like you should create a monogram just intended for watches. Please do not create a watch."
• Expo 2020 Dubai November SwatchXYou country specials.  As you may know, Swatch has held a design competition (some months ago) for each country participating at Expo 2020 Dubai.  Now the second round of SwatchXYou designs has been released for November:  1. Flat, Sweet And Famous (canvas) by Tadej (Netherlands);  2. A Mix of Contentment, the Gentleman, Cliché, the Queen In Her Prime (canvas) by Obilala Nwankwo (Nigeria);  3. Colours of Venezuela (canvas) by Carlos Almenar (Venezuela);  4. Milagritos (canvas) by Ilse Valverde (Mexico);  5. The Be-Loved Land of Senses (canvas) by Pamela Daza (Colombia);  6. Mongolian G.O.A.T. (canvas) by Jantsankhorol Erdenebayar (Mongolia);  7. Little Big Austria (canvas) by Dominik Schubert (Austria);  8. Lebanon, The Good Old Days (canvas) by Hisham Zeineddine (Lebanon);  9. A Blend Made in Italy (canvas) by Luca Vacchini (Italy);  10. A Dream of Obayyah (canvas) by Ali Al Hawaj (Bahrain);  11. I Still Believe In Miracles (canvas) by Jamie M. Lee (USA);  12. Bar (canvas) by Claudia Bläsi (Germany).
• Swatch collection catalogue free download.  Pioneer Club member Hans van Buuren is planning to offer his huge Swatch collection for sale.  You can now download a big catalogue of his collection with tons of photos for free from his website (1GB download!  712 pages!).  Lots of great, unseen stuff.  The next best thing to a new Swatch Clopedia I guess.
• Austria Destination specials available online.  On 26-OCT, Austria celebrates Austria National Day. The three Austria Destination specials are now available in the Swatch Online Store for a short period of time (until 27-OCT).
• Back To 1984 exhibition Frankfurt.  Swatch Club Germany has organized a small exhibition of original Swatch watches from 1984 at the Swatch store in Frankfurt, Germany (until 03-NOV).  A club event with about 30 participants was held on 23-OCT.  Here are a few photos from the event (including a few additional photos from Düsseldorf where a similar exhibition is on display).
• Bürgenstock Swatch store closed.  The nice Bürgenstock Swatch store near Luzern, Switzerland is closed (permanently) :-(  The store had a great Swatch exhibition with unique items in the first floor.
• Additional Expo 2020 Dubai SwatchXYou designs.  Several new SwatchXYou designs related to Expo 2020 Dubai are now available:  1. Africa Union (canvas);  2. European Union (canvas);  3. Union Nations (canvas);  4. Africa (canvas);  5. Americas (canvas);  6. Europe (canvas);  7. Oceania (canvas);  8. Asia (canvas).
• Halloween SwatchXYou.  A Halloween SwatchXYou (canvas) is now available in the Swatch Online store. 
• Las Vegas Destination special.  A new Las Vegas Destination special Only In Vegas! (SO29Z110, $95 US, Destination Special #77) has been launched at the Las Vegas Swatch store on 21-OCT.  Some nice gifts with purchase were available.  This is the third Las Vegas Destination special after What happens in Vegas... (SUOZ234) and Greetings From Las Vegas (SUOB716C), both released in 2016.
• Swatch Group Assembly special.  Swatch Group Assembly (previously «Groupe Habillage Haute Horlogerie (GHHH)») is the Swatch Group’s watch assembly company.  A special New Gent Swatch Group Assembly (SUON112E) is now available.  It is a Gent Clownfish Blue (SUON112) with the Swatch Group Assembly logo on the strap.
• Estonia NOC Tokyo 2020 Olympics special.  A special Estonia NOC Tokyo 2020 Olympics special has surfaced.  It is a Gent Tokyo 2020 Blue (GZ708) with the logo of the Estonia NOC embossed in the strap.  The packaging also has a sticker with the logo.
• Italy 1984 fashion workshops.  Do you want to participate at a Swatch 1984 Fashion Workshop in Rome (20-OCT), Torino (21-OCT) or Milano (22-OCT)?
• "Back To 1984" Swatch collection.  Swatch is hinting at a Back To 1984 collection to be released very soon.  On social media, Swatch is hinting at Grey Memphis, White Memphis, and Black Divers (although the "Swatch (C)" on the black clasp is not very 1984 like, this imprint was used much later...  in addition, the Swatch logo on the Black Divers (a New Gent I guess) is too small).  Update:  The Back To 1984 collection has been unveiled in Taiwan.  The collection consists for five individual Bioceramic watches:  1. New Gent Rouge & Noir (SO32B401, original from 1984: Chrono-Tech, GB403); 2. New Gent Gre Mem L (SO32M102, original from 1984: Grey Memphis, GM100);  3. New Gent Bla_Div (SO32B705, original from 1984: Black Divers, GB704); 4. Gent Yel_Race (SO31J400, original from 1984: Yellow Racer, GJ400); 5. Gent Whi_Mem M (SO31W106, original from 1984: White Memphis, LW102) and a 1984 Reloaded Special Set (SZS34, 160 EURO, 1200(??) pcs, not numbered, open box) with a New Gent Whi_Mem L (SO32W106) and a Gent Gre_Mem M (SO31M100, note the different sizes for the two watches only available in this special set!).  The five individual watches are packaged in a nice colorful 1984 paper sleeve.  Some nice 1984 merch available in Italy (for influencers only?).  Update:  In some countries, collector boxes for 3 watches are available (when a complete set is purchased), these were not easy to get in the past.
• Halloween specials.  Two special Big Bold Swatch watches are now available for Halloween:  1. Your Time Is Coming (SB01B128);  2. Run But You Can't Hide (SB01B129).  Very frightening glow-in-the-dark prints, great designs!  Thanks to Lauren Stefani for the hint.
• Stolen Diaphane One #0265/2222.  Please check out this Instagram post:   Diaphane One #0265/2222 has disappeared while being transported with UPS.  If you see this number somewhere, please inform the Instagram user @watchmetwist.
• Swatch Club Event 10th Anniversary Swatch Art Peace Hotel exhibition.  After an 18 month break due to you know what, Swatch Club organized an international Club Event for the exhibition 10th Anniversary Swatch Art Peace Hotel (01 to 24-OCT-2021) at the MAXXI Museum in Rome, Italy (the Swatch Art Peace Hotel Shanghai celebrates its 10th anniversary in OCT-2021).  About 20 Club members participated at the event.  A SwatchXYou event special (consisting of three SwatchXYou watches, with special paper loop) was released, using the previously available SwatchXYou MAXXI canvas from DEC-2020.  It is limited to 31 pcs as noted on the back. Roberto Quadrini sent me a few photos and notes from the event. 
• Expo 2020 Dubai Opening Ceremony.  On 30-SEP, Expo 2020 Dubai will be opened.  You can watch the opening ceremony here.  Three Four new Swatch watches will be added to the Expo Dubai 2020 Swatch collection:  1. Big Bold Al Joud (SB03Z101, 207 GBP, limited to 500 pcs according to rumours);  2. Skin Irony Tafa'Ol (Optimism, SYXZ103G, 207 GBP, limited to 1000 pcs according to rumours);  3. Skin Irony 42 Al Tasamoh (Tolerance, SS07Z101G, 207 GBP, limited to 1500 pcs according to rumours);  4. New Gent Biosourced SwatchPAY! Al Azeema (Resolution, SO29Z102-5300, 83 GBP).  This collection will be available worldwide starting 01-OCT.  Update:  Three new Expo Dubai 2020 specials are now available in a special premium packaging.  Expo Dubai 2020 is now officially open to the general public. Thanks to Ed Chung for the photo.
• Propose your design for a SwatchXYou - now available.  Swatch is currently running a design contest where you can submit your proposal for a SwatchXYou design:  Swatch Calling: The World's Most Inclusive Art Project.  From each country participating at Expo Dubai 2020 (OCT-2021 to MAR-2022) [194 countries in total], one artwork will be selected and be available as a SwatchXYou.  Design competition ends on 08-AUG.  All chosen artists will receive a symbolic compensation of 351 CHF and seven watches made from their canvas. Update 30-SEP:  The first six (out of around 80) Swatch Calling SwatchXYou are now available:  1. Five France(s) (canvas) by Swatch Club Pioneer Member David Catel;  2. Ukraine Pop (canvas) by Dmytro Potapov;  3. Identitad (canvas) by Amelia Luissi (Uruguay);  4. 26 Shades Of Switzerland (canvas) by Karl Gausmann (Switzerland);  5. Mami Con Diablicos (canvas) by Rolando De Sedas (Panama);  6.  Pharaoh Funk (canvas) by Maya Tadros.
• "Jelly Fish" reissues available by mistake.  Two Jelly Fish Swatch watches were now available again as Biosourced Swatch watches for a very short period of time (in Japan, Italian and US Swatch stores, anywhere else?):  1. Gent Jelly Fish Again (SO28K100);  2. New Gent Jelly Fish Revisited (SO29K100, already available in Japan).  Fun fact:  I cannot see a "(c) Swatch AG 1985" at the 12 o'clock position on the silver ring of the Jelly Fish...  Update:  It seems that Swatch shipped these Jelly Fish reissues by mistake to the stores.  Planned release date seems to be 22-JAN-2022.  Apparently, there was a mixup with New Gent Random Ghost Again (SO29K104).  So for now, these reissues are very rare!  This will change in a few months.  Update 2: The "(c) Swatch AG...." has now moved to the 6 o'clock position and is printed silver on silver (as it is done in the last years, invisible copyright info)... Thanks to Marcello Concialdi for the photo.
  
• Biosourced classic reissues.  Several "classic" bestsellers are now available again as Biosourced Swatch watches:  1. New Gent Random Ghost Again (SO29K104);  2. New Gent Black Lacquered Again (SO29B107).
• "Crossing Over Yellow And Black Lines" artist special.  Swatch Philippines is hinting at a New Gent Bioceramic "Crossing Over Yellow And Black Lines" / "Under Construction" artist special to be released on 23-SEP.  The watch is designed by Philippines artist Jose Santos III (#SwatchJoseSantos).  Update:  The New Gent Bioceramic special Crossing Over Yellow And Black Lines (SO32Z100, 3000 pcs, 7500 PHP, $150 US) has been unveiled by Swatch Philippines with a great video on Instagram.  The packaging represents a piece of tarmac, giving the impression of having been picked from a construction site.  The watch and packaging are not numbered.  The watch is inspired by the huge artwork Crossing over yellow and black stripes (2 panels 46 × 366 cm) from 2016. A giant maxi of Crossing Over Yellow And Black Lines by José Santos III can be seen outside of the Swatch HQ along Arnaiz Avenue, Makati City, Philippines.  The special is now available at the Philippines Swatch stores (with special working gloves as gift with purchase [are these available anywhere else?]).  It will be launched on 25-SEP in the USA and in October in Europe.  The packaging also includes additional information about the artist and the artwork.  Thanks to R.J.Valdez for the photos.
• San Francisco Destination special.  A new San Francisco New Gent Destination special Gates Of Love (SO29Z103, $95 US, Destination Special #76) has been launched on 23-SEP.  Here is a photo of the packaging.  Gates Of Love is available in the Swatch US Online store until 26-SEP.   Thanks to Ed Chung and to Roberta Kleiman for the information.
• Team USA 2020 Olympic Games special.  A special Swatch One Team One Dream (SUOZ716, $74.99 US, backside) is now available in the Team USA shop, right in time for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.  Update: A strap variant of this special was issued for the US Paralympics Team at the Tokyo 2020 Summer Paralympic Games:  One Team One Dream Paralympics (SUOZ716C, backside).  The difference is the inscription "2020 United States Paralympic Team" on the back of the strap and the US Paralympics Team on the frontside of the paper sleeve.  Thanks to Thomas Chan for the hint and to Tak Lun Lee for the photos.
• Oktoberfest SwatchXYou.  As in 2020, the traditional Oktoberfest in Munich is canceled in 2021 as well due to you know what :-(  Nevertheless, a special SwatchXYou Oktoberfest (canvas) is now available in the Swatch Germany Online store. 
• Supriya Lele Skin specials.  Supriya Lele is a British-Indian fashion designer.  She has now created five different very nice and colorful Biosourced Skin specials. Lovely!  The watches are packaged in a nice paper sleeve (matching design).  The Swatch X Supriya Lele collection is now available in the Swatch Online Store.  Update:  On 21-SEP, Supriya Lele signed her Swatch specials at the Carnaby Street Swatch store in London.  Thanks to R.J.Valdez for the photos.
• Swatch Popup Store Parco Shibuya.  From 17-SEP to 28-FEB-2022, a nice Swatch Popup store will be open at Parco Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan.  The store is supposed to look like a normal room in an apartment and it will be remodeled several times when new watches are added.
• Unique silver James Bond Swatch suitcase.  Today, I found something interesting: A silver James Bond suitcase from 2002 that you probably haven't seen before (the "normal" silver Bond suitcase is quite easily to find)! Much more rare than the expensive leather suitcase limited to 280 pcs.  This one is a unique piece with an even more unique story (sold for 10,710 GBP in 2020).  Check out all the details at the update in Wristory Auction 2001, Lot#14.
• Mexico Destination specials available online.  On 16-SEP, Mexico celebrates Mexican Independence Day. (Día de la Independencia, Grito de Dolores).  The two Mexico Destination specials are now available in the Swatch Online Store for a short period of time (until 17-SEP).
• Planet Swatch Museum Biel Swatch Club Virtual Tour.  Swatch Club has organized a virtual tour of the Planet Swatch Museum in Biel.  About 50 participants joined the zoom meeting.  You can find a few still photos from the video tour here.  After a short introduction by Carlo Giordanetti (CEO Swatch Art Peace Hotel Shanghai), Swatch archivist Philippe Marti took us around in the museum for about 45 minutes.  The highlight of the tour were the two original dial designs by Enki Bilal:  Too Many Memories (GZ217) and Into Each Other (GZ218S).  These designs were never shown to the public before.  Also interesting:  The original strap design for The Joe Tilson Venetian Watch (SUOZ312S) and a rare Our Swatch Quattro (see www.lot7.de :-).  See more photos from the tour in the photo album.  Some interesting info:  The Swatch Finder will be back (improved!) "soon" ["the team worked hard during the summer"] and Philippe's favourite Swatch is Sam Francis (same as my favourite). Thanks a lot to the team from Swatch Club for an enjoyable remote visit.
• Swatch store Treviso 10th anniversary special.  A special limited prefabricated SwatchXYou Naombraparmienaspumapalbocia (SUOK154-004) is now available at the De Wrachien online store in Italy.  The watch is limited to 550 pcs and it costs 105 EURO.  You can find more information about the watch and the artist Juls Crivellèr (in Italian) on Instagram.
  
• Big Bold Planet watchs.  The official Swatch website has a nice teaser for a "Blue Moon" related Big Bold Swatch.  The binary code on the website translates to "Hello world. -- First contact initiated. -- Stay tuned, we're coming soon".  Update:  The teaser graphic has changed slightly:  Now the dress of the astronauts shows some colors:  orange, purple, blue and green.  I guess that's an indication of the colors of the upcoming watches...  Spoiler:  Photos of the four watches have leaked on Instagram.  Update:  The four Big Bold Planet watches are now featured on the Swatch webpage.  Available online starting 07-SEP.  Each watch is available with an extra strap in a slightly different design, packaged in a nice special box.  A strap changing tool is also supplied with each Swatch.  Thanks to Laurent Stefani for the update, to Cristiano Ianna for the instagram photos and to R.J.Valdez for the photos.
• New Swatch book by Schmid / Muller.  A new Swatch book 1981 La Route De La Swatch et après... by Marlyse Schmid, Bernard Müller and Philippe J. Silaci is now available in Switzerland. Price is 39 CHF, the book has 164 pages.  Marlyse Schmid and Bernard Müller are the first designers of early Swatch watches, starting in 1981 (without these two:  No Swatch as we know it today).  You can find more information about Marlyse Schmid and Bernard Müller here (info about the Sotheby's auction in Geneva in 2015).

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• I am currently looking for:

• Kiki Picasso (poster piece)
• Kiki Picasso poster (original only)
• Mimmo Paladino
• Helmut Newton Fingernails
• Prototypes, variants, hybrids, test models
• PunkXJob MAXI (MSUOZ280S) by Studio Job
• 1983 swatches mint only:  GG400, GT402, GB100 FHL, GG400 FHL, GN100 FHL, GN400 FHL
• "blister" plastic boxes for 1982/1983 swatches.
• original plastic boxes for Keith Haring (with correct price sticker) for:   Modele Avec Personnages (GZ100)
• Folders, brochures, documentation, advertisement material 1982-86.

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