The Official Watch Thread.

[DefTrap]

It must look better irl because all I'm seeing is a dragon and some pointless chinesey characters like you're a Christmas cracker ninja.

[wheelnut]

My SKX009J - slightly more sought after than the 009K. The J is made in Japan and the K made in Korea. Difference is that the J has made in Japan at the bottom of the face and also 21 Jewels stamped on the face.

[cheb]

Just spotted this.

Why would you want a Super Cub Special edition, when you can have a Bruce Lee!!!

https://www.fhinds.co.uk/watches/watche ... ion-W24174

I'm holding out for the Kendo Nagasaki tribute.

[Mr. Dazzle]

I tend to stay away from the Seiko 5 but am a fan of the SKX.

I had an older one that was spectacularly inaccurate, but the new movements are loads better, this new one seems to be at COSC standards, just a few seconds a day.

Yeah - I think the newer ones are hacking and can be hand wound as well?

My one has the hacking seconds so I set it bang on time (compared to my phone) when I got it. I've just checked it 10 days later and its lost pretty much bang on 30s...so about 3s a day. AFAIK that exceeds COSC specs I think?

'course, my phone is still bang on That doesn't get wound up just by moving about though.

[Mr. Dazzle]

I've heard from a few people they're actually a bit shit and cheapo, even by the standards of their price point?

Do like the red one though

[KungFooBob]

I've been waiting for the promised re-stock.

[Mr. Dazzle]

I've been waiting for the promised re-stock.

Just had a look, can't see them new anywhere and they're selling/asking high hundreds...they were like 200 quid new I think?

[Noggin]

I do want to get a watch (at some point), so I look here and then google the ones mentioned. Ok, most are mens watches, but I can look for women's versions. But damn, they are all soo BIG I have narrow wrists relatively small hands and short fingers (I know, a dream for some, but not when watch looking!! ) so most watches I see and have tried are just hoooooge

I rather like the blue Omega/Swatch, but again, it's huge and I'm not sure I'd want to tell anyone I'm wearing a Uranus watch on my wrist

[KungFooBob]

The first batch sold out pretty quickly, iirc you had to buy them from an official Swatch shop.

They promised a restock, but it's not happened yet (unless I missed it as they're all still sold out).

[Mr. Dazzle]

At least Rolex manage to make a virtue out of not having anything to sell.

[Mr. Dazzle]

See, told ya.

[KungFooBob]

Looking at the Moonswatches on t'bay, they don't seem quite as mental as they used to be.

You can get a boxed one in as new condition for between £275 and £350 depending on the colour, last time I looked people were asking £600 for them, which is mental when RRP was £250.

[Rockburner]

It's like an addiction, that's four out of the set I've got now.

I want to get one of them, just haven't been up to London to pick one out for months, last time I went the Oxford Street shop didn't have any. The other Swatch shop in London, Covent Garden, was refusing to stock them because, iirc, the manager got punched out by a "customer" because they had run out of the variant he wanted.

[v8-powered]

I did fancy buying one or two, but the hysteria put me off and wasn't willing to pay over retail.

[demographic]

Well it arrived. It seems to be all here, the box has all the paperwork, it runs like it probably should...not that you can really tell in 5 mins of observation!

Quite a lot chunkier than I expected. I dunno why, I just didn't expect a £240 watch to feel "Big". For no reason.

IIRC on yours the movement is 5.32mm thick, on the watch I replaced the crystal with the sapphire crystal it was pretty thick at 2.7mm (it had 200m rating) and alll that adds up, plus the back and a bit of clearance.

[Taipan]

It's like an addiction, that's four out of the set I've got now.

I want to get one of them, just haven't been up to London to pick one out for months, last time I went the Oxford Street shop didn't have any. The other Swatch shop in London, Covent Garden, was refusing to stock them because, iirc, the manager got punched out by a "customer" because they had run out of the variant he wanted.

I think it must have been the release day that was the cause of the near riots with the queues blocking up covent garden and street performers not being able to get on their pitches!

[wheelnut]

It's like an addiction, that's four out of the set I've got now.

I want to get one of them, just haven't been up to London to pick one out for months, last time I went the Oxford Street shop didn't have any. The other Swatch shop in London, Covent Garden, was refusing to stock them because, iirc, the manager got punched out by a "customer" because they had run out of the variant he wanted.

I think it must have been the release day that was the cause of the near riots with the queues blocking up covent garden and street performers not being able to get on their pitches!

It’s mental. It’s not like they’re a limited edition, they’re just trickling them out. They aren’t very nice either.

[Yambo]

I want to get one of them, just haven't been up to London to pick one out for months, last time I went the Oxford Street shop didn't have any. The other Swatch shop in London, Covent Garden, was refusing to stock them because, iirc, the manager got punched out by a "customer" because they had run out of the variant he wanted.

I think it must have been the release day that was the cause of the near riots with the queues blocking up covent garden and street performers not being able to get on their pitches!

It’s mental. It’s not like they’re a limited edition, they’re just trickling them out. They aren’t very nice either.

I'd say they're just taking the piss.

I saw this morning that Swatch are going to produce watches with Astro images embedded - there's a choice of half a dozen Hubble and JWST images to choose from. One of the images is my target for next week, the Eastern Veil nebula although I'm targeting just a part of it. I'm sure the Hubble image will be better than mine.

I doubt the watches will look good though, all the images would look way better in large format. Small, on a watch will look naff.

I'll find and post the link.

*Edit* Link: https://www.swatch.com/en-us/swatch-x-y ... gency.html

[Mr Moofo]

I've heard from a few people they're actually a bit shit and cheapo, even by the standards of their price point?

Do like the red one though

I went through a few weeks of wanting one - but none of the designs are actually that nice. A bit of research d=showed that the bio-ceramic casing was the usual swatch plastic (which eventually gets brittle and snaps at the lugs).

[v8-powered]

I don't put that much thought into it, like most things these days I don't think these Swatches have been built to last a lifetime. Buy it, wear it for a bit, throw it away or leave it in a drawer, whatever, move on.

If you're spending twenty grand on a watch then it's probably something you'd want to keep, but these type of watches have always been fashion watches that you wear for a bit then move on. I had a Pop-Swatch as a teen, it was cool for a bit, then it stopped working and I put it in the trash, it never caused me to get angry about it.
I really don't get the angst.

I was only looking at them as something different for a daily wearer, if I could have picked one up at retail I would have been wearing one now. Certainly wouldn't be buying expecting Omega quality, it would be in the same league as a boggo Swatch to me.

I can remember having a Swatch back in the day, Turquoise Bay it was called from memory - I got some solvent cleaner on it at work and it turned in to a sticky turquoise blob on my wrist