Received this yesterday:

“And now?” We asked ourselves, almost by chance, while quickly saying goodbye at the end of the Swatch exchange bourse last September in Melzo, which signalled the end (maybe )of the 'World Museum'.

“And now let's do something!” we said to ourselves.

We decided to start from the end. The last World Museum chapter has been the Bourse. Our first paragraph will be a bourse too.

This is because meeting in a Swatch bourse is something really special and precious to collectors, different emotions from those experienced at the events organised by Swatch Club. Wondering around the tables looking for the missing models, swapping, negotiating, looking at a very rare piece, filling a hole in the collection... These are all sensations a true collector cannot easily give up.

With this in mind we thought we could put together a GROUP of "friends" and "friends of friends", open to everybody, without any hierarchical role, and of course without any business aim.

Of course we are planning a web site. A kind of virtual “café”, a meeting point for sharing a passion, a round table for discussing initiatives, keeping alive the love for collecting Swatch watches.
We have not been able to finalise it yet, but work is in progress: we are developing some ideas. In addition to a Swatch blog ,we plan to build a dynamic virtual museum of never published items (prototypes, variants, production errors), so the contribution of all collectors will be essential.
We have other ideas but the please feel free to propose suggestions. We need active participators.

Oooops ! The site will be our virtual café for 364 days per year. But, as said, we plan the Swatch bourse as our first main event, with the objective of meeting and launching our “project” for aggregating experiences and knowledge, exchanging ideas , information and, why not, ideas , for building up a unique, unconventional, BIG group.

So, we start from the swap/bourse event (please save the date: June19th, 2011),but we have more plans. And we repeat that we are looking forward to receiving contributions from anyone who would like to participate, and be PROACTIVE

What else? Thank you for being so patient to read this long letter, and hope to welcome you in Melzo on June 19th 2011..….(we will give you soon more details about location and timing) and please , please please be part of the band

ARMANDO, FILIPPO,FIORENZO, MIRIAM, ROBERTO

Please forward this letter to all your friends that might be interested! Our best resource is “word of mouth”
THANKS AND SEE YOU SOON

Some pictures from the bourse can be found here: http://www.stay-tuned-to-sw.de/bourse_melzo.html