Swatch Collectors Forum.

by **Rob** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 10:25 pm

It is final now! This week Hans van Buuren with the help of Michael Wägele, Marcel Hoogenraad, Rob Versteeg and Martina Matesova have finished a tremendous job.

The new Swatch-clopedia is ready!! It will be sent to the printer tomorrow and December 1st it will be released officially!

1. The book will have a bit bigger size, 22x22 cm, so it will be the same height as the old book, but a few centimeters wider.
2. The book will contain all Swatch watches from 1983 till 2008.
3. The book will also contain the full Swatch Bijoux collection and the Flik Flak collection.
4. The book will no longer contain the prices. The prices will be added in a separate small index.

For all these things we have had our reasons. Nowadays the Swatch company is our biggest customer of this catalog and they have never liked the prices in the catalog. The addition of the Bijoux and Flik Flak makes this book a great asset for the stores.

For the collectors the lack of prices doesn't help, but we hope to have relieved this problem by adding the loose index. Nowadays the prices can be found on the world wide web at squiggly.com, or on Ebay, so we think it's not that important anymore.

Pictures will be added to this topic tomorrow and here you can add yourself to the wish list for the new Swatch-clopedia!

http://www.squiggly.com/nl/swatch/swatc ... -CLOP4.htm

by **masas** » Fri Oct 31, 2008 3:36 pm

Hello Rob,

I'm glad that we will have an up-dated book, the Reference Book for all Swatch Collectors.

I agree with you, if you deliver the book with prices as an index, I think it's not a problem.

I already ask in the Squiggly website for being informed when the is available!

Regards,
masas

by **Jeroen** » Sat Nov 01, 2008 12:14 pm

jeroen

by **always-surprising.com** » Sat Nov 01, 2008 1:19 pm

Nice new cover!!

cheers
always-surprising.com

by **fizgig** » Sat Nov 01, 2008 11:02 pm

It looks great and it must be great! Already many thanks go out to the people who made it all possible! Great jobs guys and girls :1up

I will live up to the moment the new "bible" will be in stock

by **Nep** » Sun Nov 02, 2008 10:33 am

Interesting book.....good job! :2up

Cheers.

by **swatch.home.pages.de** » Sun Nov 02, 2008 11:04 am

Rob wrote:The new Swatch-clopedia is ready!!

more than 1000 pages?

by **Rob** » Sun Nov 02, 2008 3:27 pm

We increased the size of the pages to 22x22 cm, which means we can put a lot more watches on one page. Because of this we now have 840 pages. If we would have kept the old format, we would now have around 1300 pages of Swatch fun and data. :-)

by **Jeroen** » Thu Nov 06, 2008 9:06 pm

Today we received the first proto type of the new The new Swatch-clopedia

Here a secret preview of the new Swatch-clopedia

Marcel is happy to see the book

The rest is top secret :wink:

Jeroen

by **lauramoncur** » Fri Nov 07, 2008 4:41 pm

I can't wait until it's available for purchase!

by **masas** » Sat Nov 15, 2008 6:31 pm

Hello Rob,

Are you preparing a Special version like you did for the last one?

Regards,
masas

by **Rob** » Sun Nov 16, 2008 9:53 am

Dear Masas,

No, this year no special edition. This year we have created the Bijoux and Flik Flak on our website, we have rented a shop, created a complete new interior, made a new Swatch-clopedia and we have re-arranged our entire back office from our website and are now working on an update of the site, so it will be more friendly for the users... Oh and I forget we're also planning our own Bijoux line made from .925 silver and precious stones.
For me this is enough for one year...

Next year we will create a new website www.mastersintime.com with other brands and maybe even our own watch line. This line will be da bomb.....just need time to set it all up.
I know this is all less interesting for you Swatch collectors, but at the moment Squiggly is totally dependent on Swatch and I feel we have done great all those years, but we should spread the risk a bit more. This doesn't mean of course we will do less in Swatch. I have already hired more staff. Jeroen will continue to bombard you with Swatch, while other people will take care of those other brands...

Just to let you know...