• Cyber Bishop
    • 9 years 4 months ago
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    		 I know that you have to remember these. Almost everyone I know had one or more.
    Since 85 I have had somewhere in the neighborhood of 40 Swatches (my parents would buy me one or two for each new school year plus what i would save and buy).

    Presently I have 6 that are fully functional, 5 that are pretty much dead and somewhere around 15 in a box in my mothers mini storage unit.

    I normally swap them around every couple of weeks.
    I am presently weraing my grey pinstripe one. I will have to take pix of them and post them here.

    Since I got my first Swatch in early 85' it has been the only brand of watch that I have worn on my wrist.
    20 years and going!!
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    • skaterboy572
      • 9 years 4 months ago
      • Posts: 135
      		 i tooootttallly still wear my swatch watch. even though its not that old.
      The swatch is making a comeback!
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      • System
        • 9 years 4 months ago
        • Posts: 74809
        		 I loved my Swatch watch! I had a few, but my favorite was like hot pink and black. I remember the hands on the watch were neon green and glowed in the dark.
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        • Jason43
          • 9 years 4 months ago
          • Posts: 1553
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          		 I had a couple. One had a black band, a silver case and the face of the watch was clear so you could see the gears moving. Pretty sweet.

          The other one had a nean raibow keyboard-like patern on the band and the watch itself was neon green. And it was flaming :oops:
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          • jadedoz
            • 9 years 4 months ago
            • Posts: 710
            		 I had a pink swatch watch, I've still got it around somewhere. Now I'll try and find it
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            • Badkitty
              • 9 years 4 months ago
              • Posts: 922
              jewels1978 wrote:
              I loved my Swatch watch! I had a few, but my favorite was like hot pink and black. I remember the hands on the watch were neon green and glowed in the dark.


              I so had the same watch and it was my favorite too!

              Anyone remember the huge swatch watch clocks?
              I don't know about you, Miss Kitty, but I feel so much... yummier
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              • Thew
                • 9 years 4 months ago
                • Posts: 189
                		 i could see a Swatch come back
                especially since 80's fashion is all the rage right now
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                • nippythefish
                  • 9 years 4 months ago
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                  		 I had a few growing up....only problem was I had to keep them in a box at night because they ticked so loudly they'd keep me awake, even across the room.
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                  • Cyber Bishop
                    • 9 years 4 months ago
                    • Posts: 2796
                    Thew wrote:
                    i could see a Swatch come back
                    especially since 80's fashion is all the rage right now

                    I can see this also. They only sell them in certain stores now unlike in the 80's (I even remember a Swatch store in the mall) when you could find them in Dillards and JcPenneys. Now it seems only some watch shops handle them.



                    nippythefish wrote:
                    I had a few growing up....only problem was I had to keep them in a box at night because they ticked so loudly they'd keep me awake, even across the room.


                    Yeah they do tick loudly..

                    I am wearing my grey "pinstripe" one right now.
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                    • System
                      • 9 years 4 months ago
                      • Posts: 74809
                      		 In 84 I got a Swatch JELLYFISH, the totally clear plastic one. I wore it all the time until you realized that the clear plastic just got dirty and dingy from your body oils. I still have it in a drawer or box somewhere...and its probably still filthy and discolored from wearing it all the time. :P

                      Of course this was before *everyone* had a swatch, and then people started wearing like 3 or 4 of them at a time.

                      I remember it being quite the conversation piece, people coming to check it out "is your watch broken!?", etc.
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                      • System
                        • 9 years 4 months ago
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                        		 LOL! Mine was the regular swatch and had a watch band that was red on one side of the watch, blue on the other side of the watch, the ring around the watch was yellow, the face was a plaid and I had a bunch of different colored rubber swatch guards that were changed on and off, put on in multiples or twisted togeather frequently.
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                        • System
                          • 9 years 4 months ago
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                          		 I dont know if this was cool other places but where I grew up in Omaha we would where like 4 to 8 swatches at a time. My fave was a brown band, brown body w an Indian head of some sort on the face.
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                          • Cyber Bishop
                            • 9 years 4 months ago
                            • Posts: 2796
                            killerbee402 wrote:
                            I dont know if this was cool other places but where I grew up in Omaha we would where like 4 to 8 swatches at a time. My fave was a brown band, brown body w an Indian head of some sort on the face.


                            By late 85 early 86 almost everyone was doing this.

                            I wish I could find my "Don't Be Too Late" one I have (box somewhere in storage)..
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                            • System
                              • 9 years 4 months ago
                              • Posts: 74809
                              		 When I was in Rome there was a Swatch store. I went in but couldn't afford any of them.

                              Damn my lack of funds.
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                              • Jason43
                                • 9 years 4 months ago
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                                		 Check this:
                                https://www.squiggly.com/swatch/p/subcat/s/standard_gents

                                It would seem that Swatch reissued all their 80's watches. I found both of my old ones on there and even ordered a replacement band for my flaming neon swatch(officially the "coral gables";).
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                                • TheWizard241
                                  • 9 years 4 months ago
                                  • Posts: 452
                                  Badkitty wrote:
                                  Anyone remember the huge swatch watch clocks?


                                  lol...we used to have cheesy magazine and cassette drives in middle school all the time. you'd get so many points for selling magazine subscriptions, or cassette tapes and you could trade them in for prizes...my brother cashed in his points for 1 of those swatch watch wall clocks and he hung it up in our room, but the wrist band part of it always fell off. cheap piece of junk!
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