Are these watches being used as an incredible marketing/promotion product.
Has Swatch ever had so much free publicity?
By limiting supply, deliberately or not, they are getting a lot of customers into their stores.
Whether they make an alternative purchase or not I don’t know, but they must be getting some additional sales?
Keep the rumours going, and staff unsure of what is going on, and people just keep on visiting the store.
I’d like to think that they are attempting to fix the leaking colour problem, and will, when it suits them, release to the mass market via online sales. I suspect that they could easily sell millions of these, probably at £150 profit per watch.
The first was the 'How Majestic' model (GZ711) as you pictured above and the second was a Piet Mondrian watch (SUOZ344).
If anyone fancies getting the Mondrian watch then the best place to get it seems to be First Class Watches, https://www.firstclasswatches.co.uk/...oz344-p-87637/, where it is discounted from RRP and you can easily get an additional 10% discount code.
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I’ve lost all interest in these now but it hasn’t stopped my son from pining for his first “speedmaster”. I’m more tempted with the other suggestion on this thread of a Buliva chrono for him.
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For someone wanting to scratch the Speedmaster itch without paying the price for a real one, I rather like these TV dialed homages by Omologato...
https://www.omologatowatches.com/panam/pantbl
Keep thinking about grabbing one. Probably a more sensible purchase at 2x the price than a cheap swatch.
I still have yet to buy one of their watches but a friend of mine is a repeat customer, and they seem pretty good at building a relationship with good customers which is nice to see in this day and age.
I've had three of the Bulovas now. They look like a great idea, but they're just too big to live with. The lug to lug is something ridiculous like 52mm+, which even on my chubby wrists just looks ridiculous. It sticks out both sides.
It also needs a wider strap than the 20mm lugs will allow. I tried a bund on one of them, which made things a little better, but I still sold it.
Having had my Moonswatch for exactly two months now, it's definitely a keeper.
Dubai Mall Swatch had their display out last night but no models to sell. The guy reckons they’ve been getting about 20 per week of random colours.
Having now seen them in the flesh, the Apollo looks like a toy. I’d still consider a moon or mercury at retail price though.
Want a Swatch bioceramic in interesting colours that you can actually buy? These look nice (at 47mm diameter though).
https://www.swatch.com/en-gb/colors-of-nature.html
Trying to decide between the Desert and Canyon (I like the red dial but the pink strap, hmm...).
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^^^ sun gone to my head… meant to say the Alaska inspired one (ie, mission to mars).
And now available on eBay. All be it fakes, for the bargain price of £99.00. NOT
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/354113770...mis&media=COPY
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Things have definitely quietened down on the demand. When I walked past the other day there were only about 10 people in the queue.
This was an unexpected Father’s Day gift and I must admit, I’m positively surprised. It’s a fun watch that I can see myself wearing at the beach etc this summer. Even the strap isn’t too bad.
I still would like to try one of these, not paying above but hopefully if it slows down they will go online!
I'd still love to get my hands on one of these.
If they're ever available to purchase for RRP online...
...Count me in.
I'm travelling through London a week on Monday. I will certainly try and see how the queues are.
(Before anyone gets excited, this is a brief review of one of the 'Colors of Nature' watches, not the Moonswatch.)
Well, I've just taken delivery of a Desert. The RRP is £112 but it can be purchased with a discount (down to £87-£90ish) from a couple of UK online Swatch ADs.
For £100ish it's frankly a tad underwhelming. It looks nice enough, the online pics do give an accurate idea of its size and colour, but the build quality is poor. The 'bioceramic' is... err.. plastic. What was I expecting? Well, plastic, and I got plastic. The crystal is super-cheap sounding plastic (could be cheapest of cheap thin acrylic or something else). The silicone strap (which has a pleasant feel) is nevertheless too short. I have to have it at the last hole on my wrist. If my wrist was any bigger then it just wouldn't fit. (Other Swatch watches do fit me fine with at least one hole to spare). The quartz movement has a ghost date position (no date on the dial) but, worse, it doesn't hack! What, a quartz movement that doesn't hack! How cheap do Swatch need to be?
I certainly wasn't expecting a Rolex Oysterquartz but other manufacturers (e.g. Casio) do better, way better, for £100ish. Even Swatch can do better at this price point.
Nice visual design, nice idea, but failed by cheaping out. Verdict: Spend your money elsewhere.
Hi all - I am (hopefully) in London tomorrow with work. Any idea which Swatch shop to try first or is it just pot-luck?
Thanks
Swatch are saying now that these won’t be available online but in stores only so the madness will continue by the looks
https://professionalwatches.com/moon...duced-further/
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They've said that for quite a while now.
I've read a few accounts now of people buying from resellers and receiving a fake..
I think the chrono not working was the main one..! Also, some of the caseback text missing or misspelled, battery cover not an actual battery cover and instead the whole caseback removes, colours not being a true match, S missing from under the 'crystal', printing on the strap misaligned and poor...