Why Swatch Watches Are MEH 

for a moment I thought it was a close up of some Japanese movement

@@nourw.1874 😂

I taught my lap top was failing...

It’s just a shame they didn’t include this level, (or any level) of serviceability in the Sistem51. Edit : just found out the new steel ones are serviceable

@@CS-oo6hs system51 are mechanical , no?

@@dixion1000 yes, I believe so

They might have made it solar powered and never have this problem ever again.

And they will buff out scratches on the face for free.

Exactly. That's why I love them. Grown up with them helps too.

spot on

Well yes, and i just love the crazy designs, that's why i have a bb spectrum pink taste and a bb burning lava

Collectibles.... that's what you call clear plastic stuff with a battery replacement like some chinese kids toy....

I want a couple of swatches because I want some clothing complements (and also read the time) but I have real watches

Spot on.

Agreed!

Wow. You are right about the name! For years I thought it was a combination of Swiss +watch: Swatch. Learn something every day...

Matthew Hernandez fun watches sure, but why does it have to feel toyish? And the cost aint that low for what it is... just because its a “second watch” doesnt mean it should feel like shit. Nothing fun about getting a bad deal lol with “swiss made” gimmick to inflate the price of an all plastic/all machine made piece of toyish fashion.

@@jw6871 You don't like Swiss stuff, we get it.

So is recommending a seiko, orient or timex for someone who wants a mvmt. Mvmt may be many things, but plain and boring design isn't one of them, unlike seiko, timex or orient, many of the, seem to be meh with their old school designs for most people, especially under 25....something watch snobs seem not able to understand. They think ''heritage" should trump a pretty design...who is out of touch there?

@@casualsuede personally the only thing I have against mvmt is the price. I don't value heritage too much. Sure if it's got it then that's nice, but I would never buy a watch purely because of that. I don't own a single one of the brands you mentioned.

@@eoghanmyers2330 I couldn't agree more

casualsuede No effort has been made by MVMT watches into the designs of their dials. People hate them because you can order like 10 of these same watches for less than the price of the mvmt rip offs from somewhere like alibaba.

In my country swatches are expensive, coming around $100 each. Which, in any good conscience, a G shock and a seiko 5s are the clear choice. I love the simpla watch style of them, and bought some during my trips, but never bought one in Indonesia, where I live. Strap wise, I just bought the fake chinese swatches and rip the bands, which ironically has metal buckle, although not in the plastic style.

Agree. I don't know what his problem is, but if he likes his Omegas and Rolexes, he should continue wearing them and leave the rest of us alone.

Mine was chronograpg alumium made both 2003 and it lasted only few years before the chronograph went crazy and misaligned. On the other hand Casio works like day one, I even have a Chinese copy of G shock both for $3 10 years ago and it works still perfectly with the first battery !

​​@@BrateTebra123u can readjust the chrono easily. Misalignment often happens after small shocks to the watch. I hope u didn't get rid of it. It's even in the manual of the watch. I think I just realigned the chrono of the exact swatch u r talking about some days ago. They are not digital casios, but they r okay watches imo :) and the alu Version is a gem for sure!

Yes also they are for fun but nice yo have one especially with funny colours for the summer time.

Kevin Haynes does the strap last?

Because it is Swiss gimmick, high quality long lasting craft!

23 years and still running

Swiss name stamp baby 😆

They were DW before DW was a thing...

My sister has always worn them since university. 5-8 years each one.

He has his head up his arse.

@@j0hnnykn0xv1lle he really REALLY does.

How can you need a watch?

@@emmi5010 Know the time ?

yes, thats why i love swatch, theyre fun! and do a perfect job at telling the time 😊

Some of the ladies' Swatches are smaller versions of the gents' watch. I have both Big and Little Eclipse Swatches. (Jan Griffiths).

john preston too expensive for what it is. “Second watch” only for middle class people lmfao anyone else sees the gimmick

Ive the Stockholm 1994 olympic automatic swatch, the remaining swatch i have had been broken except this one , and i rarely use it , keeping it as a collectors item

I love them as well! My dad gave me his swatches (Irony Chrono) that he bought back in 1995, I've been wearing them to school as daily watches, and they're still accurate and look good.

@@jw6871I wear a swatch watch on each wrist to flex my middle class wealth!

Exactly!!!!!

... and I've had 4 or 5 Swatches, already. And every single one's strap and buckle is highly flimsy. They crack and break in just months - if you're lucky.

$85 isn't disposable 😭

I’ve become not a big fan of swatch after realizing that a.) when I shell out money, I want to make and keep it mine and b.) I think swatch deserves a lot more criticism for basically creating a product that’ll directly contribute to pollution.

Not a big deal? Some of these swatches are 2x the price of cheap casio watch. And the casio ones are made of metal!

People are forgetting that these plastic watches pretty much saved the Swiss watch industry as a whole

I agree.

I am 52 and still have all my swatches from the 80's when I was a teen, as I took excellent care of them and they all still work, now they get alternated every couple of weeks. I agree with Brian Hartman, the plastic ones are not a gimmick, they are the foundation that started Swatches, the metal ones were the more gimmicky ones to me (and others).

the new irony models are the best, plastic is just sht...If you want plastic get a nice casio

For anyone growing up in the 80-90s, Swatches were everywhere.

As it should be

I like how he only hearted the few comments that agreed with him

@@iy42 just like how everyone else uses it? Yeah, so weird

@@dimitrijekrstic7567 sure, but it's a bit more obvious when they're so far down

lol glad i wasn't the only one

I completely agree with you. People tend to speak in an educated manor, about things they know absolutely nothing about.

I just LOVE hearing my Swatch tick. It’s very soothing and feels old school in the beat way.

I really don’t understand why people hate hearing watches tick so much. It’s really rather delightful when it’s not super loud, which my swatch certainly isn’t

Lol I fell off my chair laughing

I think he'd look better with a bit of a stubble. Tho, he's from UK right? Stubbles aren't their thing

@@MammothBehemoth i dont think he can grow a beard

@@MammothBehemoth why do you think the UK doesn't like stubble?

@@robbiecale3327 I always had that impression they prefer a 'proper' shave. Referencing only from shows, and a couple guys I met. I could be wrong if you're from UK and would tell me otherwise

Agree you just had to be there at the time it was a thing of the the era. It's not ment to be understood it was just the thing to have as a kid. Or a digital watch that the alarm played the yellow rose of texas. The young today over think it to much. Swatch was the original fashion brand when that was not even a thing. P. S don't sell them ever is still have 3 any my sister has the original all black with the diamond at twelve position in its original box from 1983.and its worth a lot now.

@@greamepenney5947 lol the young today love casio watches. Some products' value prop is plain to see, no matter how long they have been around. With Swatch, 'you had to be there' is not a good modern day selling point. I like that they are fun and pay attention to the neglected womens market. but they look quite cheap and gimmicky to me a lot f the time.

Totally not the same 😂😂

@@multipl3 Read where I said: "its the same". Nowhere..

I like your take, "a Rolex with Mickey Mouse on it". I like to interject mine: A Mickey mouse 🐀 Rolex!

Overpriced "bioceramic" watches that cost 400 eur

Apparently a 6 - 10K watch you can show off at your meetings. Meh.

Yeah I’ve always felt like they were a great choice for when you want a design peice on your wrist rather than paying 300 and up for a “nice” watch

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Nah, swatch missing the point FIRST with the price

Really? They replaced it for you for free? Is that one branch thing or all swatch thing!?

BigBoi Ganiga yes they exchanged it for free. I believe that’s company policy, but I‘m not sure about that. To be honest, parts like those buckles are fairly cheap.

Well, not in Indonesia. But its indeed a good business practice. For one, they kind of force you to visit their store, and wait for a bit for them to replace the buckle. Meanwhile you might attracted to buy a new one.

True, but you can get a casio to d that for less that £30, so there are better options for that job, cheaper as well.

@@jh565bb yes but are any of them styled like a swatch?

@@AidanRampair No but they are far superior and you wont spend stupid amounts of money on them, those watches are in G shock territory at the moment lol.

@@jh565bb yeah but people font buy a swatch for that. I have cheap casios (a DBC-611, an a700, a MTP) and a swatch Nine to Six. I wear the others more often and they're comparably built despite the swatch costing the price of two of them, but the swatch is one hell of a party piece.

@@AidanRampair They can be, it's just silly how made people went over these.

i wear the same watch - the construction of the case makes me happy- hard to get me to go to a model with a screw on back now

agreed, even though I appreciate the profile, replacing a strap for a discontinued model or trying something different like metal or nato are very limited.

robert H Given the explosion in nato & cloth/elastic band popularity in the last 10 years, you’d think they’d make their own natos with those Swatch case attachments. I do, however, see that some of their Scuba watches have cloth bands.

I remember the "Swatch Counter" in the jewelry section of the department stores during the mid 80's. They were so colorful and "hip", especially surrounded by older, more traditional brands. I also remember that the ladies' line had watches that smelled like strawberries, grapes and other fruits depending on the color of the watch. Pretty cool!!!👍✌

The nostalgia is indisputable

@@marsoelflaco5722 I remember those counters well. Dillard's had one, as well as J C Penney. I would buy a Swatch or 2 every other payday, as well as the guards and straps. And they'd replace batteries, straps, and buckles for free. (Jan Griffiths).

I remember when they went from the linear face guards that went straight across the crystal -- the thin plastic bands that looped over either wrist band and stretched across the face -- to the more rigid circular ones that snapped onto the case and went around the circumference of the face. People would also twist two of those face bands around each other for a candy-cane look. I'd like to see them bring either back!

@@vigorousera I remember some would wear two Swatches at once. Used to wear them with a bevy of bracelets (friendship bracelets, bangle bracelets, plastic bracelets, etc....)

not to mention they are not serviceable, which is a huge con if these watches are as unreliable as they are. i had 2 models and i considered them as more like a fashion statement, fun watches. but casio destroys them.

I can’t bring myself to pay Seiko money for something of lower quality than a Timex.

Awesome!!!

A lot of batteries there

@@fredsf1 Actually, I have 2 batteries that I use. My watches are stored without them. I only use the batteries in the ones I'm going to wear. I change watches frequently. (Jan Griffiths).

Hm..bad comparison. There are cheaper alternatives than a Swatch. For me they are like the "Apple" among the watches. You buy it because of the clean, uniqe design not because it's so much cheaper than a noname watch. It's not about luxury and showing off wealth but It's indeed also a lifestyle brand.

To be honest the Miyotas wipe the floor with Swiss quartz movements in terms of price/performance and IF I'm going for a "nicer" affordable quartz movement I'd go with a Seiko VH.

Hello. If you’re talking about the plastic Swatch he is reviewing, it’s actually called Warm Rebel SUOM702. It’s gray and not green and has orange hour markers and second hand. I own this one and they can be found online from time to time. Check eBay and Masters in Time. Good luck.

It’s funny because those are also swatch brands too

@@as-fo7ff Right. And a Bugatti is a Porsche is a Volkwagen.

omega hamilton tissot blancpain rado mido longines breguet will be here

"30m WR" is stand for 30 meter water resistant

@@blackbonestudio6189 Not really. It's 3 atmospheres/30m, but that doesn't mean you can take such a watch down to 30 meters and expect it to survive. A depth-rating of "30 meters" basically means "ok to get wet on occasion" - like washing your hands or getting caught in the rain. 30m rated watches are definitely not meant for swimming, let alone for diving. AFAIK, the only watches where the depth rating in meters actually means you can safely take it to that depth are ones that are also labeled as "Diver's" or "Diver". Like some Seiko Prospex models that will say "200m" and "Diver's" on the dial. And most of this stuff doesn't matter anyway... not even to professional divers. 200m dive-depth isn't just deadly to lots of watches, but to humans as well. You really need highly specialized equipment to go anywhere near that depth - max depth for experienced recreational SCUBA-divers is 130 ft/40m. Gotta remember that when you actually swim/dive with a watch on your wrist, the pressure of the water pushing against the watch might get rather higher than the actual depth you're at - because by moving your hand through the water, the water pushes harder on the watch than if it simply sat still at half a meter or a meter of depth. Personally, and knowing what I know now, I'd only take watches that are rated at least at 5ATM/50m or probably even 10 ATM/100m to go swimming. Still: I do maintain that none of my 30m Swatch-watches ever suffered any damage from taking them into the pool/ocean - but perhaps I just got lucky.

I don't about that, seiko, citizen, casio all do very nice affordable watches, id even say brands like sekonda, timex and lorus, make some excellent options for that low price point. Im wearing a 70s citizen 21 jewel day/date at the moment, doesn't miss a beat, id recommend looking into them if you are looking to add to your collection.

I don't agree I think their System 51 watches are a good everyday watch and the other ones are perfect second / occasion / fun watches

How's the r32?

Thank you! I could buy other watches, but why? I love my Swatches. Every time I look at my wrist, it brightens my day.

is so horrible nobody wants it

If you really like the minimalist look of a black/white Casio, I would go for the Casio MW-59. It is not the cheapest, but it has water resistance of 50m.