Recent Swatch info (Last updated: 22-MAY-2022)
- 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:
- "Rings" New Gent / SwatchPAY! Swatch watches. Swatch
has introduced several nice "Rings" New Gent / SwatchPAY! Swatch
watches in the regular collection: 1. New Gent Purple
Rings Yellow (SO29J100); 2. New Gent Blue
Rings Red (SO29R103); 3. Swatch PAY! Blue
Ringspay! (SO29N103-5300). Thanks to David Rippmann for the hint.
- New Swatch store in Munich / opening event / SwatchXYou
specials. On 24-MAR, a new Swatch store has opened in
Munich, Germany in the center of the city (Sendlinger Straße).
The store already shows the Omega
X Swatch suitcase in the shop
window. Update: A Swatch Club opening event
for the new store will take place on 20-MAY. Two Munich artists
(Nadja
König und Michael
Wiethaus) have designed new Munich
SwatchXYou specials. Both artists will be present during
the opening event. Update 2: Three Munich SwatchXYou
specials are now available in the German Swatch Online store: 1.
München
BW Michael (designed by Michael
Wiethaus, canvas);
2. München
C Michael (designed by Michael
Wiethaus, canvas);
3. München
Nadja (designed by Nadja
König, canvas).
wristory (Dino) has some impressions from the Munich
Swatch Club store opening event. Here
is an overview of the goodies given to the event participants in
Munich. Thanks to
Wolfgang Seiler for the photos.
- Father's Day special 2022. The Father's Day special
2022 is a Biosourced New Gent Star Dad
(SO29Z119, 105 EURO), packaged in a special
packaging with additional removable transparent
loops with
white and green print with the emojis heart, chef, hero and
friendship.
- Swatch at Biennale Arte 2022 / special Swatch watches. The
59th International Art Exhibition Biennale
Arte 2022 will take place in Venice, Italy, from 23-APR to
27-NOV. As in the last years, Swatch is a main sponsor of the
Biennale (for the sixth time) and will present
five artists from the Swatch
Art Peace Hotel in Shanghai at the Arsenale
venue in Venice (Swatch Faces 2022):
1. Landi (China); 2. Xue
Fei (China); 3. Tang
Shu (China); 4. Shin
Hoyoon (South Korea); 5. Marcelot
(Switzerland / Brazil). Additionally, Swatch has invited
Thai artist Navin
Rawanchaikul to the Giardini,
where he will create The
Description of The World, an installation created specific
to that place. Swatch will also release
a Swatch artist special by Navin
Rawanchaikul in September as well as a watch
inspired by the graphic identity of the Biennale Arte
2022. Carlo
Giordanetti (Swatch
Management and CEO Swatch Art Peace Hotel) presented
this information during the online
press conference for the Biennale Arte
2022 in February. Hopefully, Swatch
Club will offer the possibility of visiting Biennale Arte 2022 as
in earlier years. Update: The
Description of The World at the Giardini
has been unveiled
at a press event
before the official opening of Biennale
Arte 2022 (video).
Swatch has released two specials for Biennale
Arte 2022, both available in the shops: 1. Gent White Dream by Swatch (GW151R, 75
EURO); 2. New Gent Black Milk by
Swatch (SUOB720R, 85 EURO). Here
is a picture of the packaging of the watches, new eco packaging with
special sleeve.
- Torino SwatchXYou specials. Three different SwatchXYou
specials dedicated to the city of Torino are now available in the
Italy Online Swatch store: 1. Granata
(canvas); 2. Skate
(canvas); 3. Zebra
(canvas).
- Ed Sheeran wears a MoonSwatch. Singer Ed
Sheeran was recently spotted
wearing a MoonSwatch (Mission to the
Moon). Did he queue for the watch? Where?
- Peanuts Swatch on Swiss TV. Swiss politician and
journalist Roger
Köppel recently wore a Peanuts
Swatch (a New Gent Pow Wow,
SO29Z101) during a TV
show in Switzerland.
- Beijing 2022 Olympics IOC special. A
special Beijing
2022 Olympics IOC Swatch has surfaced (with the additional
Olympic Rings on the dial): Gent Biosourced Charm
Of Calligraphy Olympia Logo (SO28Z109). Nowadays, the IOC
Olympia Logo watches are much more rare than ~10 years ago so good
luck in locating one... Thanks to
Thomas
Chan for the photo.
- Pigcasso exhibition in Germany. Starting 01-JUL, Pigcasso, the "artist" pig
(who also designed a sought after Swatch
artist watch), will have its own exhibition
in Hannoversch-Münden in Germany. Here
is a small TV report about the exhibition and here
is another report on tagesschau.de!
- The Nines SwatchXYou special. A new SwatchXYou
special designed by Swatch Proteam member Nico
Vuignier is now available on the Swatch website: The
Nines (canvas).
It is released for the The Nines
sport event in Crans-Montana (Switzerland) from 04 to 09-APR:
"The Nines in its essence aims to celebrate sports and the athletes
who write history through their dedication, talent, and
passion." If you visit the Plaine Morte Glacier on the
public viewing day on 09-APR, you can meet Nico Vuignier and
get an autograph on your limited edition The
Nines watch...
- Omega X Swatch MoonSwatch
collection. On 17-MAR, two mysterious full
page ads ("On 26-MAR, it's time to
change your OMEGA -- SWATCH" / "On
26-MAR, it's time to change your SWATCH -- OMEGA") have appeared
in several newspapers in Asia (South
China Morning Post [Hong Kong] and Singapore).
Is this announcement of a Omega X Swatch
collaboration? What else could it be? Very
mysterious. This two page ad was also published in Financial
Times (Switzerland). Maybe "Swatch Group" company will be
rebranded as "Omega Group" or "Swatch Omega Group" or "Omega Swatch
Group"??!? Now also on Swatch
Instagram. Here
is a report (in German) about the mysterious ads. Maybe a Omega SwatchXYou? (only joking
:-) The riddle will be solved soon in a few days. Update:
On 21-MAR, the Omega and Swatch stores have been decorated in "Ω
X S" style and the Hong Kong store now shows a mysterious suitcase
with an "Ω X S"
logo. So it looks indeed as if we are talking about a "Omega X
Swatch" watch collaboration here. The Straits Times in
Singapore has a new ad
showing 11 different planets, so we are probably talking about
11 watches in the suitcase ($$$$). More shop decorations in
Asia: Shanghai
Swatch store, Shanghai
Omega store, Taipei
101 Swatch store. Does this Instagram
post show the battery cover of the new Bioceramic Omega X
Swatch watches? Last week, a few selected journalists
got a sneak
preview of the new collection at Swatch HQ in Biel, with Swatch
Group CEO Nick Hayek,
Omega CEO Raynald Aeschlimann, CEO Swatch Art Peace Hotel Carlo
Giordanetti and Omega head of product design Gregory
Kissling.
Update: After an early leak by Revolutionwatch,
the Omega
X Swatch Bioceramic MoonSwatch collection
has been unveiled on 23-MAR and the blue suitcases in the Swatch and
Omega stores have been opened worldwide
on 24-MAR: The
MoonSwatch collection is a
fun collaboration to produce a playful take on the iconic Omega
Speedmaster chronograph. There are eleven different
planet / missions themed watches in the collection:
Each watch in the new MoonSwatch product line
features its own mission statement, inspirational engravings ("DREAM
BIG – FLY HIGH – EXPLORE THE UNIVERSE – REACH FOR THE PLANETS.") and
joint OMEGA X SWATCH logos on the dial
and crown. The
battery cover on each watch features a depiction of its
planet. The case on all of the Swatch watches (42mm size) is
made of Bioceramic
(a unique mix of two-thirds ceramic and one-third material derived
from castor oil. Each watch has a colorful Swatch
Velcro strap. Did you notice the
engraved "S" in the center of
the glass of the watch? All the key Speedmaster design
features can also be found in the MoonSwatch: the
asymmetrical case, the tachymeter
scale with "dot over ninety" and
the distinctive Speedmaster subdials.
The watches are not limited and not numbered and the price is 250
CHF / 250 EURO / 260 USD and they are packaged in colorful
cubic paper boxes. The MoonSwatch
watches will be exclusively available at 77 selected
Swatch stores (and on the
moon [or Mars?]) on 26-MAR, with a limit of two watches per
customer (= it will be difficult to get a complete collection quickly).
The blue suitcase with the "Ω X S" logo is not for
sale, so there is no limited box with all eleven watches. The
first Swatch collectors are already camping
out at London Carnaby St. store and in Asia
(Hong Kong). No queues in Munich
on Thursday evening (11.30pm, note the missing suitcase in the
display!). Additional reporting can be found at Hodinkee,
Hypebeast,
Fratellowatches,
GQ
Magazine, Time
+ Tide, Financial
Times, ... Update 2: Due to concerns
of safety, the launch in China has been canceled! Long
queues in Kuala Limpur (Malaysia).
Update 3: So the MoonSwatch
broke the internet and the real world on the weekend of
26-MAR. Same league as the launch of the original iPhone back
in 2007. Congratulations to Nick Hayek, Raynald Aeschlimann,
Carlo Giordanetti and all others involved in the bold move to decide
for this project and the realization of this amazing product.
I collected a few launch
queue
highlights from all around the world on Instagram
and here is a video of
the queue in Frankfurt (according to the police: 3500 people
in the queue!). Unbelievable! This was crazier than the
queues in the early 90s... Thanks
to Ed Chung, Tak Lun Lee, Thomas Chan and @stefan1165
for the photos and information.
- Swatch X Centre Pompidou SwatchXYou specials.
Three different Swatch
X Centre Pompidou SwatchXYou specials are now available
online: 1. Centre
Pompidou Detail (canvas);
2.
Centre
Pompidou Front (canvas);
3. Centre
Pompidou Views (canvas).
Additionally, three prefabricated Swatch
X Centre Pompidou SwatchXYou specials can be
purchased. The canvases have been designed by the french illustrator
Stéphane Kiehl.
- Mother's Day SwatchXYou special. A
Mother's Day SwatchXYou special Floritura
(canvas) is now available.
- Swatch X Centre Pompidou Collection. On 08-MAR, the
new Swatch
X Centre Pompidou Collection has been unveiled at the Centre Pompidou
in Paris: 1. New Gent The Frame, By
Frida Kahlo (SUOZ341, 100 EURO); 2. New Gent Blue Sky, By Vassily Kandinsky
(SUOZ342, 100 EURO); 3. New Gent Red, Blue And White, By Piet Mondrian
(SUOZ344, 100 EURO); 4. Gent Carousel,
By Robert Delaunay (GZ712, 80 EURO; note the very special
date window!); 5. Gent Eiffel Tower, By
Robert Delaunay (GZ357, 80 EURO); 6. Gent Portrait
Of Dédie, By Amedeo Modigliani (GZ356, 80 EURO). The
watches are packaged in nice paper boxes
with the design of the artwork. Each box also contains some additional information about the
artist and the artwork. Additionally, three different SwatchXYou
Centre Pompidou designs will be available online and in Swatch
stores starting 24-MAR. In April, a new Swatch Pop-Up store will
open opposite of the Centre Pompidou (across the place). A
special limited edition showcase box
is available worldwide (with a nice black
bag) if you buy the complete Centre Pompidou Swatch
collection. On 08-MAR, Swatch held a memorable
launch event for media, VIPs and bloggers at the Centre
Pompidou. Additionally, there is a long interview
with Carlo Giordanetti (CEO Swatch Art Peace Hotel Shanghai) where he
talks about the different artworks used as a basis of the six Swatch
watches in the collection. On 09-MAR, Swatch Club invited 34
club members from all over Europe to Paris for a great club event in
the Centre Pompidou and other nice places. Here
is a report with many photos from a
wonderful day in Paris. An overview of the Swatch X Pompidou
Goodies from all around the world: Club
Launch Event Paris, Taiwan:
Puzzle, Düsseldorf
(Germany): Poster. Update: The three
SwatchXYou Centre
Pompidou designs have been prelaunched during a Swiss
Swatch Club event on 16-MAR in Interlaken, Switzerland.
Worldwide launch is on 24-MAR. Here
is a nice report by Christine Tanner with a few photos from the
Interlaken SwatchXYou prelaunch. Update 2: Swatch
Club has published a great video
and some photos
from the Paris Club event on 09-MAR. Thanks to Sophia Chang for the
photos.
- Mother's Day special 2022. The Mother's Day special
2022 is a Biosourced Gent Star Mom
(SO28Z108, 95 EURO), packaged in a nice Hollywood-style reflective special
packaging with additional removable loops featuring a heart, a
blowing kiss, a gift and a flexing muscle.
- New Kids On The Block single cover. The cover of the
new comeback single Bring Back The Time
by (gulp!) New Kids On The Block
is designed in true 80s Swatch style inspired by the 1988 Gent St. Catherine Point (GB121). The
single Bring Back The Time also
features Salt-N-Pepa,
Rick Astley & En Vogue.
- New SwatchXYou at Biel Drive-Through store. 6
new pre-printed SwatchXYou models are now available at the Biel
Drive-Through store with the usual Hamburger
packaging. The models are already printed and ready to buy, no
possibility to move the canvas. The chocolate
special is very nice! Thanks to
Paolo for the information and photo.
- Expo 2020 Dubai March 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 sixth (and final?) round of SwatchXYou designs has been
released for March: 1. Greek
Alphabet (canvas)
by Zoe Keramea
(Greece); 2. Croatia,
Makes You Unique (canvas)
by Marko Cukman (Croatia); 3. Porteuse
De Lumière (canvas)
by Onésime
Lufuma Bengo (Congo DR); 4. Roots
(canvas) by Zoha Khan
(Pakistan); 5. Browski
(canvas) by Vuyo
Mahashe (South Africa); 6. Alegría
En Colores (canvas)
by Sergio
Valenzuela (Guatemala).
- International Women's Day SwatchXYou.
For the International
Women's Day (08-MAR), a special SwatchXYou
(canvas) is now
available in the Swatch Online Store.
- Expo 2020 Dubai VIP gift box. Win a Swatch
VIP gift box at Expo
2020 Dubai: Each AED 200 spent at any Expo 2020
Dubai Official Store, Kiosk or Cart during the promotion period until
31-MAR enters the lottery. Six boxes per week will be
distributed.
- Photos of Chandelier launch in Luzern / Hergiswil in 1992.
The Swatch
craze was much bigger in the early 90s. Here
are a few great photos from the Xmas special Chandelier launch in
Luzern / Hergiswil (Switzerland) in 1992 (back then, they sold 3333
Xmas specials in Switzerland alone...).
- Expo 2020 Dubai February 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 fifth round of SwatchXYou designs has been released for
February: 1.
Loudly Spanish (canvas)
by Jordi Fornies
(Spain); 2. Windows
(canvas) by Christoph
Demaitre (Belgium); 3. Maningue
Hope ("Much Hope") (canvas)
by Cremildo
Walter Zandamela (Mozambique); 4. Kilts
On The Royal Mile (canvas)
by Ilse
Woodhouse (United Kingdom); 5. Balikbayan
(canvas) by Mark
Justiniani (Philippines); 6. Reog
(canvas) by Arianni
Kurniawati (Indonesia); 7. Cuba
(canvas) by Dayami
Hayek (Cuba); 8. Kilim
Of Pirot (canvas)
by Vojin Popovic
(Serbia); 9. Joy
Stamp (canvas)
by Ivan Petrusevski (North
Macedonia); 10. Mr.
Gukki (canvas)
by Stian Borgen
(Norway); 11. Colours
Of Cyprus (canvas)
by Carolina
Alotus (Cyprus).
- Platinum Jubilee of Elizabeth II special.
On 06-FEB, Queen Elizabeth II will become the first British Monarch
to celebrate a Platinum
Jubilee, marking 70 years of service to the people of
the United Kingdom, the Realms and the Commonwealth. To
celebrate the Platinum Jubilee (festivities in early June), Swatch
has issued a special Gent How Majestic
(GZ711, 83 GBP). Check out this video
by Carlo Giordanetti for a close-up of the dial and the change of
colors during the days... Great idea! The watch is
packaged in a nice special packaging.
Update: In
honour of Her Majesty’s Platinum Jubilee and the How Majestic Swatch,
the London Carnaby Swatch store was appropriately
decorated in May. Great job!
- Beijing 2022 Olympics SwatchXYou specials.
Six SwatchXYou watches are now available for the Beijing 2022 Olympic
Winter Games in February: 1. Alpine
Ski (canvas);
2. Cross
Country (canvas);
3.Hockey
(canvas); 4. Skating
(canvas); 5. Sled
(canvas); 6. Snowboard
(canvas).
Additionally, three of the SwatchXYou designs are presented as
prefabricated SwatchXYou on a special Beijing
2022 Collection section on the Swatch website (104 GBP
each): 1. Ice
Hockey (SUOK136-028); 2.Snowboarding
(SUOK145-013); 3. Ice
Skating (SUOK147-004). Update: The press
release for the Olympic SwatchXYou specials shows a seventh
SwatchXYou All Sport
which is not (yet?) available online. Thanks to Joachim Meyer for the update.
- RIP Billy The Artist. Rest In Peace Billy
The Artist. He made some great colorful
contributions to the Swatch universe, he will be missed. In
2009, he created two great Gent artist watches which are still hugely
popular: Afterdark (GZ204) and Morning Glow
(GZ205S). In the same year, we had the great G&P
event in Venice with a huge outdoor
live painting performance with Billy The Artist on
Piazza San Marco. No one who was there will forget that night,
it was crazy! We also met Billy later in 2009 at the Xmas
event in New York City. Those were the days, enjoying
life to
the fullest... Update: Here
is a tribute by a local news site covering the East Village of
NYC where Billy lived. There will be a celebration of Billy's
life on 20-FEB in NYC. Details in this Facebook event here.
Update: A few years ago (in 2009), a US based Swatch
collector commissioned Billy The Artist (and other Swatch artists)
for drawings on custom made Swatch folio boxes, these are really
beautiful and are shared here as a tribute to Billy: 1. Afterdark; 2. Morning Glow.
- Best Swatch Watches from the 2000s. Fratello
Watches online magazine has a nice new report: Buying
Guide: The Best Swatch Watches From The 2000s. An
(erm!) interesting selection in my opinion, check it out and think
about it....
- Kölner Karneval SwatchXYou specials. Two special
SwatchXYou watches dedicated to Kölner
Karneval (Cologne
Carnival) are available in the German Swatch Online Store:
1. Veedelliebe
(canvas); 2. Fastelovend
(canvas). Despite
the circumstances, Cologne Carnival is celebrated, with most
highlights in the last week of February and the first week of
March: Kölle Alaaf!
- Valentine 2022 specials / SwatchXYou. Three Swatch
Valentine specials for 2022 are now available in the Swatch Online
Store: 1. Bio-Sourced New Gent Half
<3 White (SO29Z112, 80 EURO, packaged in a nice red
box, glowing in the dark);
2. Bio-Sourced New Gent Half <3 Red
(SO29Z113, 80 EURO, packaged in a nice red
box, glowing in the dark); 3.
Gent Love O'Clock (GW718, 70 EURO,
packaged in a nice red box). A special
packaging for the two New Gent specials seems to be available as
well. Update: A special SwatchXYou Valentine
(canvas) is now available
in the Swatch Online Store. Additionally, six pre-fabricated
Valentine SwatchXYou specials are available (scroll
down).
- Beijing 2022 Olympics Volunteer / NOC specials. For
the Beijing
2022 Olympic Winter Games in February, NOC (National Olympic
Committee) specials have been issued as usual: A (so far unknown)
Bio-Sourced Gent Beijing 2022
NOC Hong Kong (SO28Z104D) in
a special red paper sleeve. For Germany, we have: Beijing
2022 NOC Germany (SO28Z104C)
with no special loop around the strap but a nice pin.
If you know of any other NOC Beijing watches, please let
me know. Update: A Bio-Sourced Gent Beijing 2022 Volunteer
special (SO28Z104) is distributed to
volunteers at the Olympics, 30,000 pcs have been produced, so it
should not be too hard to get. It is packaged in a special
red paper box. The strap and the loop are different compared to
the NOC specials. Thanks to
Tak Lun Lee, Thomas Chan, and to Daniel Licata for the photos.
- Berlin Hauptbahnhof store opening / SwatchXYou specials. On
13-JAN, a new Swatch store in Berlin
Hauptbahnhof (central train station) will be opened.
Two new Berlin related SwatchXYou specials (with lots of local
specialities and tourist attractions such as Currywurst, Brandenburger
Tor, Fernsehturm, ...) are now available in the Swatch
Online Store Germany: 1. Berlin1
(canvas); 2. Berlin
Colored (canvas).,
designed by Hülpman
(Felix Aaron Hülpüsch). Six
different prefabricated SwatchXYou based on his designs are
exclusively available in the new Swatch store. During the store
opening celebration on 13-JAN, Hülpman will create a live
painting... Update: Here
are a few photos and videos from the in-person and virtual (hybrid)
store opening celebration. Swatch Club Collectors were able to
purchase a prefabricated SwatchXYou
and they received one of 54
pieces of the great custom artwork, signed
by Hülpman. This is artwork
13/54. Here
is a press report about the new Swatch store in the central train
station of Berlin.
- Laax Open 2021 PAY! special. The Laax
Open snowboarding event
takes place from 11 to 15-JAN in Laax, Switzerland. A special
limited edition Big Bold SwatchPAY! Laax
PAY! (SO27B120C-5300, 130 EURO) has been issued, it has an
extra long oversize strap for a
comfortable fit over ski/snowboard jackets (great idea! why not
earlier :-) A free regular-length watch strap is also included
with the watch.
- Swatch collection book / 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. Update:
At the end of DEC-2021, the printed Thirty
Years Of Swatch Collecting book became available in a
numbered and limited first edition of 40 pcs.
It is thick and heavy (more than 3 kilograms!).
- Older swatch news. Click here
to read older swatch news with more pictures and info. Check it out if
you haven't!
- 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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