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Recent Swatch info (Last updated: 02-FEB-2023)

• 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:
• Big Bold Biosourced.  The first two Big Bold Biosourced watches have been released (quietly):  1. Misty Cliffs (SB05P100, 109 UKP);  2. Bouncing Blue (SB05N105, 109 UKP).  Now where are the references SB05N100 to SB05N104?  Swatch is no longer using "Bioceramic" (SB03xxxx)?  Is it the same material?  Thanks to Cristiano Ianna for the information.
• Swatch Omega prototype from 1969?!?  Dayton Taylor from Switzerland recently found an interesting Omega prototype(?).  The shape of the watch case almost looks like the shape of a Swatch watch, especially the typical strap hinges on the back.  For the Swatch watch nerds:  Dayton has produced a detailed document where he collects quite a few indications that this prototype was already produced in 1969!  This would mean that the iconic Swatch watch case design from 1982 can be traced back to a much earlier, unreleased Omega prototype.  What do you think? 
• More than 1 Mio. MoonSwatches.  In this recent interview with Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Swatch CEO Nick Hayek states that Swatch has sold more than one million MoonSwatch watches between 26-MAR-2022 (launch day) and end of NOV-2022.  Meanwhile, there are more than 180 stores around the world selling the MoonSwatch (instead of 110 at the beginning.  Lots of other interesting info in the report (eg. about changes in the MoonSwatch production facilities in Switzerland).  Update:  This success implies that Swatch Is On Track To Sell 1.5 Million Units Of MoonSwatch In One Year (until the end of MAR-2023).  Never forget the MoonSwatch launch queues around the world on 26-MAR-2022.
• Valentine’s Day specials 2023.  According to this report, Swatch will release three special watches for Valentine’s Day 2023:  1. New Gent Receipe For Love (SUOZ353) in a nice special packaging with lots of special loops for the strap;  2. New Gent Biosourced Love To Go Around (SO29N107);  3. Gent Biosourced Purest Love (SO28W109).  The Valentine’s Day watches are now available online at Swatch.  Update:  Additionally, four different Valentine’s Day 2023 SwatchXYou are available in the Swatch Online Store:  1. Only One (canvas);  2. Cielo (canvas);  3. Love Explosion (canvas);  4. Love In World (canvas).
• New Hong Kong Bioceramic Pop-up store.  K11 Musea is Hong Kong’s pioneering cultural-retail landmark, located on the Victoria Dockside harbourfront of Tsim Sha Tsui (built on a historic site formerly known as Holt’s Wharf).  Swatch has opened a new Bioceramic Pop-up store inside of K11 Musea.  This futuristic store also sells the MoonSwatch watches and it features a red Fiat 500 MoonSwatch car (for the time being, not permanent), similar to the new Swatch store inside of the KaDeWe in Berlin. Source: @mingwatch_hk
  
• Daniel Craig wears a MoonSwatch.  James Bond 007 actor (retired) Daniel Craig was spotted wearing a Mission To Neptune MoonSwatch at the 2023 National Board of Review Awards Gala in New York City on 08-JAN.  Daniel Craig has some good connections to Nick Hayek :-) but even James Bond had to wait until 2023 to get his Mission to Neptune...  Source: @whatsdanielwearing
  
• Full Moon Celebration.  The January 2023 Full Moon, also called the Full Wolf Moon, will be on Friday January 6, 2023 at 6:08 PM EST.  Swatch joins the festivities with a Full Moon Celebration event at the Swatch stores in Paris, Zermatt, Edinburgh, Düsseldorf, Milano, New York, Las Vegas, Miami Beach.  At a similar sales event in Zurich in December, 50-60 Mission To The Moon MoonSwatches were available for sale.

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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, especially US and "Personaldienst" blister
• Folders, brochures, documentation, advertisement material 1982-86.

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