Swatch Watches

[bumblelady]

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im still trying to get hold of one of those watchimals, they are impossible to find, i have it saved in a search from ebay, only ones in the us for $30

[Heather74]

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Now here's a cool Ad, and its the first one!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4WBjEXwABo

[chillyrose]

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I had one when with the changes faces whenI was a kid too - and I remember my uncle, who was a teenager in the 80s - had a GIANT one as a clock on his bedroom wall. Does anyone remember them?!
I think he still has it somewhere.

[justkim]

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I still got one of these and its in mint condition... it has a green kinda wooly strap and a green and red face with a sorta swiss looking design on it..ill have to take a pic of it

[chilligrape]

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I rememeber having a Swatch which had a fabric elasticated strap and you could take the watch bit off and swap it with someone elses Swatch.


edit: Doh!! I should have read ALL the posts first...it was a Pop Swatch x

[Paulos]

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I bought my "plastic" swatch in the late eighties. I had wanted one for years and I still have it somewhere though the original strap had to be replaced, I must find it, I loved that watch.

Having said that my watch at the present and has been on my wrist for the last 10 years is a Swatch, although not a plastic one it is what they call a Swatch Irony. I used to have a thing for watches and bought quite a few until I bought this one, now nothing I see can beat it.

This is the same model but not mine.

[Trickyvee]

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I had three swatches in all. The first when I was about 11. My parents got the wrong end of fashion stick and bought me a swatch but with a black face and plain black straps because it was 'stylish'. Nooooo! Whole point was for it to be as outrageously coloured and mismatched as possible! They later bought me a red and yellow strap for it to shut me up.

Next came the pop swatch with the material strap that I remember got really sweaty and manky, then I got another swatch self-winding watch as a present. This one had a colour scheme that Timmy Mallett would have been proud of but that fashion was dead and gone by then so I never wore it. It was hideous.

[Richard1978]

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I was talking about Swatches at the weekend.

My sister had at least one in the early 1990s.

[sixtyten]

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Found only picture of me wearing my Black Swatch

1987

[Heather74]

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I can only Imagine someone asked you the time and it was of course 2'o'clock

[sixtyten]

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Think someone asked me "Why are you wearing your Mum's teeshirt?" (which I was )

[darren]

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I bought my "plastic" swatch in the late eighties. I had wanted one for years and I still have it somewhere though the original strap had to be replaced, I must find it, I loved that watch.

Having said that my watch at the present and has been on my wrist for the last 10 years is a Swatch, although not a plastic one it is what they call a Swatch Irony. I used to have a thing for watches and bought quite a few until I bought this one, now nothing I see can beat it.

This is the same model but not mine.

tes i remember having one of these.
could never understand what the 3 smaller circles where meant for.
where they the times in different countries.

[Trickyvee]

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Found only picture of me wearing my Black Swatch

1987

Ha ha looks like the black swatch I had. Would have been the same year.

[Paulos]

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tes i remember having one of these.
could never understand what the 3 smaller circles where meant for.
where they the times in different countries.

No the first button operates a stopwatch and the three dials are minutes, seconds and 1/10th seconds for that.

[grhaffdd]

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A mates brother[who had a market stall] and I were talking, he asked if I had a watch,
I said no and he handed me a brightly coloured swatch. I got it pretty oily and in no time the strap
fell apart. I asked him about a strap and he just threw the watch in the bin and gave me another. This
happened 3 or four times. I still have the last one, but it's a plain looking one, I looked it up a
few weeks ago it's a "Dotted Swatch". I did consider getting a strap for it, only joking.