Swatch stories
This is my Swatch DB2L from their 1984 reissue line. The original model - long gone unfortunately - was the first watch I was truly passionate about. I was 16 years old and I wore it everyday in high school. I picked up a DB2L to scratch my nostalgia itch. The New Gent’s 34mm size certainly doesn’t wear as well on my adult 7” wrist as it did on my skinny teenage arms, but I still love it and the snarky sentiment of the dial.
I’m sure I would pay a ridiculous price for new old stock of the original if I ever found it.
Keen to know if anyone else has an early Swatch lurking around in their past that, like a first girl/boy friend, they just never got over.
(Btw - a bit of anti-glare coating wouldn’t go amiss on these things 😂)
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This is the sort of thing Swatch excels at, making fun and relatively inexpensive watches.
I'm still on the fence about picking up one or two for a change of pace.
that's a fun one! I've been thinking of getting a Swatch at some point, but there's a ton of choices. When I was 16 I was wearing a cheap casio that's probably very similar to the cheap casios I have now, but I was normal enough to only have 1 watch as opposed to the stash I have now.
I love it!! Here's my ol lovely
i got this one in 1993. it was my second watch i got after a flik-flak, when i was in elementary school. i was so fascinated because of the transparency and all the little moving gears. I wore it until it was totally scratched and the strap ripped off the lugs. that was the beginning of the journey.
after that i had a couple of more swatch watches like a scuba swatch, some steel swatches and some chronos until 2000 probably.
I've recently been on bit of a Swatch kick. Got the strap replaced (and free battery change) on one I got from Paris back in 2008. Also picked up a Skin Irony 42 with a steel bracelet which makes a nice change.
But that wasn't enough, just last week also got a bioceramic Big Bold that supports Swatch Pay. So that's five Swatch's in total over the years.