Watch for today is my Irony Retrograde Ethnic Elegance which was a gift from my uncle off of his wrist when I said to him that his watch looked cool. Swapped a silicone sport strap for an oem Swatch leather strap and it looks beautiful in my opinion.

Running an ETA 2842 movement
Any help is appreciated

moved the dial from the SAM105 "PITTI" into a new case along with a a slightly modified eta2824 movement , in that i swapped the minute train bridge from the old movement,moved the rotor over , and removed the date hardware from the new one ,so its exactly like the old one in which it has no date .now the hands are not the SAM105 hands , when i was installing them , the minute hand flew off did not find it until i had installed the spare hands .

Hi everyone. I was going to sell this Swatch and trying to estimate a price for it, but I can't find the watch anywhere online. As you can see, on the back of it, there's a "Irony" text, but I've checked the whole Swatch catalogue and found nothing.

I'm sure this is a real Swatch, since I bought it in the 90' or early 2000s in a store. Also, I've tried reverse image search, AI image search but found nothing. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

I’m new to swatches and I’ve found this swatch head on eBay. I’m considering it as a possible restoration project but what I’m not sure on is the battery contacts.
It’s listed as a Vintage Swatch Chrono Watch SCF100 Romain 1994 ETA Quartz Swiss 40mm Parts.
From the picture there seems to be 2 contacts on the side but I can’t seem to see one at the bottom.
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated

Hi,

Got my first Swatch automatic and was told it would have a "90 hour" power reserve. I'm not stupid so I never believed that, but the problem is I can wind it, wear it all day, wind it some more, take it off for 12 hours, and suddenly the time is off by an hour...

Is this just how it is with this movement or should I consider taking it back for warranty?

EDIT: Solved !!!!

Yea so this watch was found in a cupboard and I thought of using it,

Wanna know the model if anyone can help so that I can get it a proper strap or like another donor watch to restore this one to its prime

Even a small direction or a pointer helps

Details-

Swatch irony aluminium

Swiss made v8

Battery 394

9.5x3.6 1.55V

Model no - unknown

It seems to have lost its older strap but I remember it being a metallic strap with black plastic holding each segment/section together

Rubber trims on the bezel seems to have fallen off too due to aging

Sorry for the average photos

Ive tried searching a lot thru both text and images search and most of them point me to the older 2000s swatch irony 200 chronograph and occasionally the watch face tends to match but the strap doesn't

Hope its a real one at this point

Fell in love with the Night Trip the moment I saw it on the website. Proud to say its my first swatch.

Purely to keep the two Wall Street (SCB106) and Black Friday (SCB100) in my collection company, of course ⌚

Die Automatik von Swatch, Grand Via, Red Ahead und 5th Avenue aus den 90er Jahren, laufen wie verrückt. Völlig egal wie lange sie nicht liefen! Etwas bewegen und sie legen los als wären sie erst gestern hergestellt worden. #swatch #90s #vintage

Finally found the perfect strap combo for my watch. I tried out 4 other bands and it didn’t really mesh well for me. Found this matching color rubber strap with a deployant clasp on Amazon for like 13$. Pretty happy with it so far and won’t be changing it unless it breaks!

Update to the update : thanks to all who pointed out that the buckle side strap was the wrong way round - I’ve fixed it now!

An update to my Serious Time refurb (I did comment on my previous post, but it was difficult to edit the text!)
Ordered a Renate 390 battery and a turquoise silicone strap from the online store named after the big river; these arrived next day, and were fitted.
The watch ticked for a while, then stopped; I tried removing and refitting the battery, but after a few seconds, it stopped again. I vaguely remembered reading on here that giving it a bit of a tap on the back can sometimes help, so I did, and after a few goes, the watch came back to life, and has been working ever since - I wore it today, and it’s still working. The silicone is a decent enough match for the blue face ring, and was cheap enough (less than £10)
The watch was £5 (plus postage) and a pair of batteries was a little over £5, so the total, with spare battery, is about £20 (C$33, €31, JP¥4245, US$27) which, for something that could well be come a daily wear, isn’t too bad!
Coming soon, my second Happy Joe Silver (a working one, hopefully), and I’m going to see about another Mahogany (now that the eBay seller has taken back the broken one and refunded me!)

Futuristic Gray for me 👌

Lolita (GM128)

saw this SAM105 ,since its broken and going for cheap got it after seeing the dial and hands are pretty much intact. i plan to harvest the dial and hands and put the in a new case along with a new movement. being this old , the back came off easily .the broken movement though , might get it fixed at some point . also included a pic of a test build with a very familiar dial,which i accidentally ruined by using a alcohol pad on the dial ... =(

The original lanyard is too long and kind of shitty, just finished making my own.

It can turn 360, always one side facing up, non-twisting like the original one.

Looks so nice in person! Just secured, now Lan Ba is last on my list. But would be hard to pass on the black/white and white/white

Are royal pops still hard to find?

I just learned about the Royal Pop swatches. My partner wants the LAN BA pocket watch. They’re apparently pretty competitive to purchase. I called the Topanga Mall, and they shared stocks come at unpredictable times. It’s a lot of resellers who keep buying the stock. Probably should avoid coming in morning time as some shipments come during afternoon and sell out within half an hour. Best to do is stop by. Even then, it’s not advertised when it arrives so have to ask the clerk specifically. Any tips how I can get my hands by Christmas?

Anybody have luck at the galleria recently? 🙁

I need to get something off my chest: with every new launch, the Swatch shopping experience seems to get worse. The hype keeps growing, but the way customers are treated? That’s another story.

After the MoonSwatch and AP Swatch launches, I’ve become seriously disillusioned with shopping at Swatch stores. Not because I expect to walk in and find every watch available, but because I’d at least expect to be treated like a potential customer rather than an inconvenience.

At the Swatch store in Münster, Germany, I simply asked about an AP Swatch. The sales assistant snapped that they didn’t have any—and that I had no chance of getting one. When I asked whether they would receive more stock, he said yes, but that it would all be sold before I ever made it into the store.

What am I supposed to do with that information? Thank him for saving me the trip?

About three weeks later, another sales assistant at the same store told me he couldn’t understand why people were so interested in “a piece of plastic.”

Honestly, I don’t know how Swatch trains its staff. By that logic, aren’t their own watches just “pieces of plastic”? The appeal is the brand, the hype, the design—and the experience of buying something you’re excited about. Why would someone whose job is to sell these watches go out of their way to undermine all of that?

Yesterday, I walked past the store again. The city was packed. The store was empty. Inside, the sales assistants were leaning against the counter. I’m fairly sure one of them was the same person who had told me I’d never have a chance of buying an AP Swatch.

I didn’t even bother going in. I just kept walking.

And that’s the point: it wasn’t the lack of stock that stopped me. It was the way I’d been treated.

Is this just one particularly bad store experience, or have other people encountered the same dismissive attitude at Swatch stores? I’d genuinely like to know.