Swatch Launches Watch with Mobile Payments The latest watch from Swatch isn’t a smartwatch but it does something that some connected devices are not yet capable of—making mobile payments. The new timepiece is currently available only in China but will be coming to the U.S. next year. The Swatch Bellamy, which went on sale in China on Wednesday, is an analog watch that allows users to p...
Swatch Makes a Statement with Sistem51 The proliferation of smartwatches and other wearable devices isn’t the only issue that the Swiss watch industry has to deal with these days. One of the biggest manufacturers of Swiss timepieces has created an innovative new watch that has competitors nervous. Last year, Swatch launched the Sistem51, a watch totally different from what buyers have come t...
Swatch Collection Expected to Bring $1.3M at Auction When most of us hear “Swatch Watch” we think of that brightly colored plastic band that we picked up at the mall and tossed into a drawer when the battery died. Maybe we should have held on to those relics of the 80s and 90s since one collector’s cache of Swatches will be going on sale this week—for over a million dollars...