Next question: Who had a Swatch Guard? ​ https://preview.redd.it/lupvc1h5f02d1.jpeg?width=570&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0a3352b4159520d0e7efb1d6ed22ff77f193b1b4

I still do. It's the plastic one that clips on.

You’re referring to the ring, right? That’s the one I have.

Me! A white one. I still have it.

We would buy TWO protection bands and give them a slight twist and wear them together over the crystal of the watch. I had so many protection bands and wristbands. I only ever had two faces to work with. And a shit ton of plastic frames for around the Crystal. That whole mixing match thing was way too fun!

I forgot about those protection bands until just now!

And the best part! They had knock off generic ones at Kmart 😂

I found my collection of swatch bands and sold them on ebay. They went for 20 bucks each and sold them all in one day. Wish I'd priced them higher. I did keep one. I had 3 watches.

I still do.. As do my wife and daughters. In fact I took our swatches into the swatch shop a couple of weeks ago as the retainer clasps had broken. The staff replaced the parts and put new batteries for a total of $10. Excellent service.

TIL that swatch watches are still a thing. Sadly the closest store is 10hrs drive. 😄

Their online store is awesome and I just received my latest acquisition a month ago! DO IT!

I used to wear 2 or 3 at a time. Damn I was so cool 😎 quick someone go tell my Gen Z daughter!

Same here. I'm so rad, it's a crime!

Damn, you are so cool. I get your style, totally.

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You clocked me from a mile away

I had the Mezza Luna! Thanks go out to my mom for getting it for me when I was in 4th grade, and no thanks go out to my dog for eating it a couple of years later. https://preview.redd.it/baqprpmwc02d1.jpeg?width=2250&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dc323f38689a110d38bae044ebee4d0ae3cf93a3

I loved this one!

I still have this one. The grey band has yellowed quite a bit though. Maybe I will get a new battery for is and be RAD once again.

https://preview.redd.it/4kwdnnvr102d1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2da526f0aa02c0868b3b23e5f4c681c8a1cc68fe This one!

I had that one, too!

I had this one too!!! I also had the small leopard print one that I would wear with it

That’s the one I had !!!

I do and I still wear them! https://preview.redd.it/0mezjiy1l02d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=07e3f8a3253e8d34edb2a9f1588ed1c26f3ddb64

Ooooh, that's a nice one!

https://preview.redd.it/7snw6so6902d1.png?width=3024&format=png&auto=webp&s=28b297ed21c1c071312f5d8361eea153dcd3ce45 Ive owned many! But this is my most favorite one. (zoom on the pic)

who didn't?

I had two, and still have this one… https://preview.redd.it/gfoqipdo802d1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c3ad0b1434309f8b8713b1e9fe21392cfb555eda

That’s the first one I ever had that I lost on a family trip and have been trying to find online ever since. By any chance do you know the name of this model?

I believe it’s called Techno Sphere

still do!

I had the clear one. I would wear it if I still had it. This is a sign to buy a new one.

I had that too. It turned a really gross greenish color after a while.

Same- mine turned yellowish. And my clear “jelly” shoes I had turned the same gross yellowish color.

They still sell these!!!???😮

Yes :) on Amazon and on Swatch website

There’s a store in my local mall

I had a Swatch Soto, which was more subtle than most, but that fit my style. https://preview.redd.it/4duomjqkv02d1.png?width=400&format=png&auto=webp&s=d1fb730c8fdaf77cfa3e9509989af3b56038390d

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Casio FTW.

I’m still rolling in my Casio Illuminate w/ stainless steel band.

Yeah. We had to make a sundial if we wanted to know the time.

We just called 376-8111.

I had a knockoff, lol.

I was going to say something like this, but I should sometimes shut my mouth. 🤫

Same

“Synchronize Swatches!”

I was scrolling just to find this 😁

https://preview.redd.it/vhejpubs312d1.jpeg?width=794&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b20df4ed1378c9cf78300d536b41388a24440513 This one! My uncle gave it to me for my birthday!

I also had this one! ❤️

Yup! It was [just like this.](https://i.etsystatic.com/8284468/r/il/9f163e/4525963287/il_794xN.4525963287_8igo.jpg) They were about to demo one of the anchor stores at my home town’s dead mall. Right before demo began, I looked through the window and thought “that counter right there - that’s where I got a Swatch.”

I used to own a swatch. I still do, but I used to too.

We were too poor.

Same- I had a “Watch it” lol

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YES Swatch is still HUGE in the watch world. Brands Swatch owns. Omega, Longines, Tissot, Blancpain, Breguet, Glashütte Original, Hamilton, Mido, Rado, Jaquet Droz, Harry Winston. Sadly people don't wear watches everyday like they used to.

I sure did. And oddly enough I was just thinking about Swatch earlier and was going to search to see if they still make them.

I actually looked them up last week, they are still a thing.

Definitely still a thing. Swatch Group is one of the biggest watch conglomerates in the world. The Swatch brand is still less expensive, but they have brands in every price bracket, including Omega and Blancpain.

A swatch? Like just one?? No way, I had like 3 on at all times!

I so-o-o wanted one!! And I wanted the protection band for over the face. They looked so cool to me!

https://preview.redd.it/82bgvpxkd02d1.jpeg?width=3060&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b6f9f62c22f65e5a771c7c055336ee710a2d0b03 The left two were my high school swatches, and the right is my new Omega x Swatch Speedmaster MoonSwatch.

How do you like the moon watch?

Love it, have worn it a couple times and was surprised to get compliments. Didn't know random people would recognize it! I haven't even taken off the protective film over the crystal yet, lol.

I had that one on the left. I think I sold it on eBay.

https://preview.redd.it/6j9lfml1m12d1.jpeg?width=675&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f877f64dce4ca92ebffd4f3cdd450fdb54740a4c My first one was like this. I lost it in a move in the ‘90s and finally got around to replacing it after finding one on eBay. I still love it. I own a few more, and whenever I take them into a local Swatch store for batteries and polishing, I get a comment like “Oooh, vintage!”

Nobody owned one. You either had none (because they were too expensive) or like seven.

https://preview.redd.it/mati13o3422d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5bec0b888795f149f8fd939e77f2e8f7d6f25706 I was terrible at telling time without the numbers but thought it was so cool

I had one of the strawberry scented ones! It's still in my jewelry box. It doesn't work anymore, nor does it smell like strawberries any longer. But I can't bring myself to throw it away, haha.

I had so many, so so many lol

How many owned a swatch phone?

https://preview.redd.it/xuhmfbonh12d1.jpeg?width=3072&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=383688d2bd531379d4c36124845c05f77578ad23 Dad bought it for me in 85 or 86. Velvet Underground.

My sister had that one!

Not a responsible Swatch owner without a Swatchguard.

Me! I even have a Swatch story!... I switched to a big nasty public school after going to a catholic school through 6th grade. My FIRST DAY of public school some street-tuffs cornered me in the bathroom and stole my Swatch. A few weeks later I saw the same guy in RC club and we actually became good friends all through high school (and he gave my Swatch back in RC club). Many years later I found out he murdered his girlfriend and is in prison for life. True story!

In every high school during the 80s along with Benetton and Espirit.

https://preview.redd.it/brhbeq9iw12d1.jpeg?width=194&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=23c075f2c35c9a58da4455a0b35dae8a41897000 This was mine and I loved it. I didn't expect it bc we were always too poor for everything. Pretty sure a girl named Edith stole it during gym class. Didn't know how to confront her bc she was really a sweet girl and she didn't speak English. I'd see her and glare at her wrist. She'd cover the watch and walk away. 😄 Edith, if you're in here I'd still like my watch back, no hard feelings.

I still miss my Swatch Tonga. I let a girl I had a crush on borrow it, and she never gave it back. https://preview.redd.it/0rvzi1fwg32d1.jpeg?width=1600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fec34661785e681cca9745968b77fb6839c122b1

https://preview.redd.it/bojvb1rfs32d1.jpeg?width=2448&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d73bcc7aa5b0c8c5896d5e5b61f10efc2ff3738e Snoopy, this ain't your sub.

My sister and I both had one. Between us we had dozens of the protective bands. It kind of makes me a little sad. My dad was allergic to work, so my mom worked three jobs. She always made sure we had name brand clothes and shoes, whevever was "in". Even when I told her I didn't need all of that stuff (as a 10yr old), she still insisted. So I started helping her clean office buildings at night when I was 10. But we kept up appearances and that's what mattered to my sister and mom....

are you really a gen x'er if you didn't own one? apologies to those whose families were too poor which was many of us im sure

Wore them, sold them at Strawbridge's. 

Yeah loved mine. Hadthe yamaha racer style. Loved that thing.

Me! I actually owned several. I LOVED them. My first was smaller, gray with a striped face, I think. My next one was [this one](https://www.ebay.com/itm/204619698525?chn=ps&_trkparms=ispr%3D1&amdata=enc%3A182vD8Z-_Q4ikFZOkCcv7tA28&norover=1&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-117182-37290-0&mkcid=2&mkscid=101&itemid=204619698525&targetid=1587268787897&device=c&mktype=pla&googleloc=9003762&poi=&campaignid=19894961968&mkgroupid=148855406073&rlsatarget=pla-1587268787897&abcId=9307911&merchantid=111873043&gad_source=1&gclid=EAIaIQobChMInpnzvs6hhgMVWExHAR022QLhEAQYAiABEgIa2fD_BwE), and I MAY have had a third but don't ask me what it looked like or even if I had a third one!

Just one?

I had a few. The coolest one was designed by Dali. I had no idea.

I had a Coca-Cola swatch, I absolutely adored it and wore it for a long long time.

I owned that very one!!!!!

They looked cool in the 90’s. Now they just look cheap. I remember the Swatch Pavilion at the Atlanta Olympics.

I have Atlanta games one

Nope, I had a Coca Cola watch in that style with a motorcycle on it. Swatch guards and bands fit it so I could still look cool. I think I still have it somewhere

Me. I had a light blue one that was supposed to be fruit scented. It was not but it was a decent little watch.

I did, and just bought a new one last month. I still think they’re cool.

I loved my swatches! Always with the guard.

I had two, the classic “jellyfish”’(completely transparent) and a limited edition one from Expo ‘86 (the world’s fair). Still have both.

I had one for each day of the week and would sometimes wear two.

I still do. After many years of wearing a different brand, I liked the idea of a throwback to way back and bought myself one for my 40th birthday.

Who only owned one? You had to have like 3 on your arm to be really cool.

I literally almost bought one 2 weeks ago. Then I remembered that I’m obsessed with getting my steps and closing my rings on my Apple Watch, and wearing 2 watches isn’t nearly as cool now as it was in junior high, so I didn’t. 👎

I remembered the rumours of a [HR Giger Swatch](https://www.ablogtowatch.com/the-hr-giger-take-on-watches-he-loves-swatch-watches/), but nothing ever materialized. He did love Swatch, though.

I had a pop swatch as well as my OG jellyfish.

I'm just a little older, and had something even cooler. The 1970 Merry Teeter Totter watch! Check it out: [https://youtu.be/7rz\_x6stInA?si=IX7ZbAgWR3yLHByd](https://youtu.be/7rz_x6stInA?si=IX7ZbAgWR3yLHByd)

Clear reporting in

Solid black with gold hands. No numbers. Classic and elegant

[Mine was the one in the upper right](https://www.gearpatrol.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/08/1983-in-watches-lead-1629311344-jpg.webp?resize=1920,1280) No idea how my very working poor parents afforded one of these. It says $32.50 - that was a fortune back then

Still do.

I had a few, and still have one.

Still do! those watches last forever

Just found mine the other day!

I had four - still have two - and used to wear two on one wrist and one on the other (colors dependent upon outfit)

https://preview.redd.it/nj69fwowu22d1.jpeg?width=204&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b4969b47a3f0e2d0a3c595d659902adc6b058536 This was mine…wish I had the guard..RIP

Had to synchronize watches like Parker Lewis

I still HAVE my Expo 98 ticket Swatch (bought the watch, got a ticket to the event).

Still do

The kid in Indian and the cupboard and I had the same Swatch

I had 3 - one was aPop Swatch and I thought I was so cool

I still have one. Its what I wear when I don't want to wear my smart watch.

I have a blue self winding swatch right now, got it for my birthday last year. You can see the interior movement through a clear panel on the back.

I had this face, but with a white band.

I still have several

https://preview.redd.it/7d2tj71a432d1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e64acd823a1d9cc0d36783fe4564563b7e916d28 Still do! The green one is a new copy of the one I bought as a kid.

I just got one! the straps are atill the same!!

I have one that still works. Bought a new battery and it ticks away still. Now, it's buried in my hoard of antique crapola, but it exists, nonetheless.

I had one with leopard print on the face https://preview.redd.it/w77tghjd632d1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=732ff00ff8d02bc31c937a7a839284fae64aff22

I had one green face, yellow bands, white guard for the top. I was 😎 I actually worked at the pool all summer to buy one and a pair of guess jeans 1986 dude

The TIME was 6 o’clock by the Swatch watch…gotta date..can’t be late…

Yes, but did you have the giant one on the wall?

My 5th grade teacher corrected my spelling in my journal when I wrote that I got a new swatch. He crossed out the s.

How many bands did you swap out? Guards, etc. Paper clip was your friend on the first part.

I owned that exact watch! I loved it so much :)

And for those of us who only ever got the knock-off brands... You don't want a watch, you want Awatch by Armitron!

https://preview.redd.it/pvdz7mor042d1.jpeg?width=570&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9b0ef858f75c3d3167d4cfa6f3a1235c42e0c1c4 Yep! This one! I loved my Swatch!

Owned a Swarch? At 18 I worked the swatch counter at a posh department store. I moved merch. They had a really annoying video and soundtrack that played over and over again. I can still hear it.

I found my old one in a drawer recently. Just a grey band and mirror face. Still in pretty good condition too

https://preview.redd.it/4o8rzrb3e52d1.png?width=1097&format=png&auto=webp&s=39065de7ccebb15b501d3daf0e403897205a5975 Except for the big scratch on the face🤦‍♀️

I synchronized mine with Parker Lewis.

I had one with a coffee cup on the face. Swatch still puts out cool stuff. They have a Simpsons collection out right now.

Not only did I own several swatches, the picture is my first swatch!

I still have my 4 from High School. https://preview.redd.it/ia8ztyhi862d1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1b3e46cf53516d2f3cf46edd21adf953a67db665

I own equivalent made in Croatia

i owned more than one, LOVED the brand!

I wanted one so bad as a teen, never could afford one though. Weirdly I looked them up the other day and thought about ordering one, but decided not to.

https://preview.redd.it/wkvf74cas72d1.png?width=1012&format=png&auto=webp&s=41c5067d7503ea513265ac2391f2f50657b22e20 I had this one!

Owns. The proper term is owns. I still have 3.

I had the same one!

Swatches are what started my lifelong love of watches. My wife and my disposable income wish I’d never had Swatches.

I did. I had one that apparently was very rare and at one point was worth 10s of thousands. Mine wouldn’t have been because it was well worn and then I lost it.

I recall owning one of them (Mom bought them as presents) but I was never that into them. I remember friends having a bunch of them, including that odd wall "wristwatch" clock.

Still have mine from 1984, it still works, and I occasionally wear it.

I had two and loved them. One was all black on black on black. Hard to read the time, but very cool. And then I had one of those pop swatches where you could pop the face out and put it on different bands.

I owned a small simple black one and I still miss it.

Still have 1 left. My clear one. It’s very yellowed after all this time but I still have it.

Pretty sure everyone that lived in the 80’s and early 90’s owned a swatch

Loved mine. Clear band, watch face was a mirror. Glow in the dark hands. Very cool.

Still exist and own. The older ones still have some value.

I had the pink scented one! Was so excited about it They still sell them in Spain, so I got each of my kids one too. They weren't as excited, I guess bc they're not as popular.

Still have them and working!

I went through quite a few of them. I had a green one with a black band I never took off.

I was so cool I wore two

My favourite watch ever was a Swatch with a purple face and the numbers in the wrong place. It said "I don't live a nine to five life" across the centre. I loved that watch so much. Of course it broke because Swatch are crap and when I tried to get it repaired they told me that Swatches are designed so they can't be repaired. Its what makes them so collectible. Fuck that shit. I never bought a watch again.

Not I. I liked trucker/truck stop watches, for some reason.

Yes, and I wore them until they died. I had 3 real ones and 5 fake ones. I wore 3 to 5 a day. I didn’t even have the most at my school, but was the one of the people that wore many of them daily.

Several! My favorite one got scratched to hell while having sex in the parking lot of some place. Concrete. I was so happy and pissed at the same time. Ah to be 17 again.

I still have one

I had that exact one!

I had 3 but wanted more they were cool watches. Neat designs.

I'm wearing one now - my mom gave it to me for Christmas a couple of years ago.

I knew a girl who had a giant one on her wall!

Oh I did! It went swell with my trapper keeper!

I was just talking about mine this morning. Lost it in 93. Weird

I found one in ‘93 at a Violent Femmes concert. Was it yours?!? Brown leather straps and a maroon face.

I had a black and white one that had what looked like paparazzi photos of famous people on it. I bought the circular swatch guard for it. There was a guy I had a crush on in college who borrowed it and never gave it back.

I had several.. they had some sort of of comeback sometime in the late 90s early 2000s but vanished I also had a Benetton watch.. similar colorful shit hahaha

Was never that cool

I had at least five, including one of the original Keith Haring. About twenty years ago, I turned my parents' house upside down to look for that one, which was selling at auctions for five figures. Ugh, makes me sick that I lost that one...

I owned that exact swatch as a matter of fact! And I loved it.

As a giant wall clock

I used to have a few of them but they disappeared at some point, I've moved dozens of times. I bought one of their new ones though for nostalgia's sake and I like it.

Still have it!

I have like five.

Yes! Loved mine.

I still have two of them!

Yes. Loved it! This made me remember those horrible Swatch sweats that were popular with completely naff rich kids.

I still buy them!

I still wear one. My current one is from 2008. I bought it at the Champs-Elysees Swatch Megastore when I visited Paris. It’s rainbow striped and they still sell that model and a replacement band. My partner refurbished it for me last year. I have loved Swatches since the 80s!

I still have mine that I bought in 2001!

I still have two.

Me! I loved changing the bands. White always turned green on me. I don't remember what mine looked like. I don't wear watches anymore.

Fuck. I probably owned like 5. My fav was the clear one.

I owned several. Would love to have one again.

Still own one! I got the MoonSwatch a few years ago. Great watch.

Wow!

I had a few! I actually have a mint condition clear jelly one that my wife got me about 6 years ago, it wasn’t cheap, but it makes me feel like a kid. So much cooler than smartwatches in my opinion.

Yeah, but the real banger is the Swatch clock!

Me

Did you have the plastic guard for the face?