Swatch Chrono Plastic Collection
Swatch presents for the summer time a stylish range of mono colors and designs for the popular Swatch Chrono Plastic Collection with 10 new models built for sports and fashion-minded men and women of all ages.
5 New models have a bright monochrome dial with a very white plastic case and an adjustable bracelet made of solid white plastic links. The all-white look gives an elegant touch to an otherwise rugged sports line. 5 Additional models feature tough structured white or coloured silicone straps and solid plastic cases. All models have the specific Swatch Chrono Plastic’s characteristic moulded plastic rotating bezel and easy-to-read dials.
Diaphane One collection contains only 4 watches, but they are each and every one pieces of watch art. The watches contain a Carousel movement, which is not exactly a Tourbillon, but they come close.
SVAK1000 Diaphan One.
The amazing creation of the Diaphane One is very special. Swatches are still considered a plastic watch with a low price tag, but Swatch this time clearly wanted to make a statement and show its heritage and its breed. The Swatch Group is the worlds largest watchmaker with lots of brands in several price ranges. In 2001 Swatch launched its 2222 Diaphane One watches for the ridiculous price of 3,333 euros! 222 pieces of this limited edition were decorated with rubies, diamonds and sapphires (the colours of the French flag) as a tribute to the new Swatch boutique on the Place Vendome – the only place where they were sold. This watch is an extravagant gimmick on the part of Nicolas Hayek, President of the Swatch Group and it was an immediate success!
The carousel movement moves inside the case what makes this watch so extremely special. The whole movement makes in one hour a full rotation.
SVAK1000 Diaphane One
Diaphane One Turning Gold
In 2006 Swatch repeated the fun by creating the Diaphane One Turning Gold. This watch is an expression of the watchmaker’s art and a break from its own traditions. Swatch made this luxury timepiece available in a limited and numbered edition of only one hundred pieces—and only in selected markets. A cheeky and ironic challenge to everyone’s expectations, Diaphane One Turning Gold is a luxury watch again with a carousel movement but also parts made in gold which makes this after the YGZ102 Victory Gold the second watch in gold.
The unique art of Diaphane One Turning Gold
Designed to astonish in both technical and aesthetic terms, Diaphane One Turning Gold is a ‘skeleton’ watch; the revolving movement is visible from front and back, its beauty evident from any perspective. The technically unusual, fascinating 25-ruby movement, which must be wound by hand, is mounted in a smoky translucent plastic case that evokes the core aesthetics of the brand’s more traditional and less exclusive models. At the same time, its blued-steel hands and nobly worked 18-carat pink gold flange, bezel and crown appeal to the most exclusive and refined of tastes. A brown leather strap enhances the exclusive look and feel of this exquisite expression of the art of luxury watchmaking.
SVAZ100 Turning Gold
SVAZ101S and SVAZ1012 Turn to Him and Turn to her.
In 2008 Swatch did this trick one more time with the SVAZ101S and SVAZ1012 Turn to Him and Turn to her. Swatch famous for its colourful and affordable plastic watches brought again in extremely limited editions two watches. Diaphane One Turn 2 Her, for women, was made available in a strictly limited, numbered edition of 50 pieces; Diaphane One Turn 2 Him, for men, will be available in a limited, numbered edition of 130 pieces.
Turn 2 Her, SVAZ101S
Turn 2 Her features a pink gold bezel set with 43 diamonds weighing approximately 1.5 carats in all. Engraved on the bezel at 12 o’clock is the limited edition number and the crown too is fashioned of lustrous pink gold. A brushed pink gold flange features engraved hour indices and a ring of swatch logos is engraved on the movement. Exquisite blued steel squelette hour and minute hands and the blued steel small seconds hand indicate the time. A white genuine alligator leather strap enhances and completes this exceptional luxury watch.
SVAZ101S Turn 2 Her
Turn 2 Him, SVAZ102S
Turn 2 Him features a nobly worked bezel in matt and polished white gold; the limited edition number is engraved on a white gold plate positioned on the bezel at 6 o’clock with a pair of black screws. Black screws mark the hours on the brushed white gold flange surrounding the movement and black squelette hour and minute hands and a black small seconds hand mark the time. A black genuine alligator leather strap enhances the elegance of this exclusive luxury timepiece.
SVAZ102S Turn 2 Him
The set of two.
In my opinion the Diaphane One collection watches are not the rarest Swatch watches, but they are a display of spectacular technical watch art in the most stunning way.
Happy collecting
Yes, a new edition of the “Offer of the Week”. This week we have some Swatch Irony Lady Lady for you.
This weeks discount percentage is:
50% Discount!
Win a Swatch Full-Blooded
During Easter Squiggly is going to have an Easter Egg search on Squiggly.com. The eggs will be hidden on Squiggly.com and the answers have to be given on Twitter.
The places the eggs will be hidden can be anywhere our website. It can be on the front-page, any information page like warranty, the Swatch Collections page… anywhere… That’s why it’s a Easter Egg Search!
What you need to do:
Make sure you follow @squigglyswatch on Twitter. We will let you know in time when we are going to start the Easter Egg search!
Date:
Monday March 29 till Friday April 2
Where:
www.squiggly.com & Twitter
How:
During this 5 day period, we’re going to hide one Easter Egg every day on www.squiggly.com. On twitter we will announce when the egg is hidden. The first one to reply to @squigglyswatch on Twitter with the right URL where the egg is hidden will win a Swatch! So be sure to follow @Squigglyswatch on Twitter!
Prices:
As Easter Eggs have many beautiful colors we are going to give away 5 Full Blooded Swatches. Each day a different color.
Click here to check out the Full-Blooded Watches!
Sometimes the designer department and the final control team need a vacation as well. They are human and they make mistakes. Some mistakes are only found on the prototypes, but some even end up in the final models.
Here are some examples of little mistakes in the design.
The GK 154 Cuzco has a misprint on the face :
The outer rim on the dial has 60 little notches indicating the seconds .Every 2nd mark is numbered with an even number except the first one followed by 4, 6, 8……. Oops..
And then there is the famous mistake on the Olympic watch YCS496g – Graphic Combination.
Also this watch has a misprint on the face:
The head of the figure in the Olympic logo was missing. And this was a mistake I believe that rocked the boardroom like an earthquake. The watch was immediately pulled from the market, but it was too late. Too many pieces were already on the market. Nowadays this is a modern collectable!!
The most secret misprint is from the YCS479 Earth Surface :
Swatch has never published this or communicated this misprint to anyone as far I know . The black dial has three sun brushed counters of which the top left counters is the minutes. On the silver minute dial you see 15 30 40 60.
40 should be 45
One thing I must confess: We at Squiggly only noticed the mistake a few months after the watch was released. So not only the designers are sleepy now and again.
There are many, many more of these designers errors. They are hard to find, but fun to find!!
Happy Collecting!
This model we did not stock before. The model was introduced earlier this year with the artist collection of the Spring / Summer collection 2010.
We are clearing out our Maxi Swatches. Nowadays they have become quite rare. So if you are interested in a LARGE piece of Swatch History, act quick and check out the Offer of the Week: Maxi Swatches!
Click here to go the Weekly Offers!
During Easter Squiggly is going to have an Easter Egg search on Squiggly.com. The eggs will be hidden on Squiggly.com and the answers have to be given on Twitter. The places the eggs will be hidden can be anywhere our website. It can be on the front-page, any information page like warranty, the Swatch Collections page… anywhere… That’s why it’s a Easter Egg Search!
Date:
Monday March 29 till Friday April 2
Where:
www.squiggly.com & Twitter
How:
During this 5 day period, we’re going to hide one Easter Egg every day on www.squiggly.com. On twitter we will announce when the egg is hidden. The first one to reply to @squigglyswatch on Twitter with the right URL where the egg is hidden will win a Swatch! So be sure to follow @Squigglyswatch on Twitter!
Pricez:
As Easter Eggs have many beautiful colors we are going to give away 5 Full Blooded Swatches. Each day a different color.
For Now:
Make sure you follow @squigglyswatch on Twitter. We will let you know in time when we are going to start the Easter Egg search!
During Easter, Squiggly is going to have a Easter egg search on Squiggly.com. The eggs will be hidden on Squiggly.com and the answers have to be given on Twitter. The places the eggs will be hidden can be anywhere on Squiggly.com. The front-page, an information page like warranty, the Swatch Collections page… anywhere… That’s why it’s a Easter Egg Search! J
Date:
Monday March 29 till Friday April 2
Where:
www.squiggly.com & Twitter
How:
During a period of 5 days, we’re going to hide one Easter Egg everyday on www.squiggly.com. On twitter we will announce when the egg is hidden. The first one to reply the right URL where the egg is hidden to @Squigglyswatch on twitter wins a Swatch!
Prices:
As Easter Eggs have many beautiful colors we are going to give away 5 Full Blooded Swatches. Each day a different color.
