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Swatch Launches Watch with Mobile Payments
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
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 Smartwatch Coming This Summer
Swatch Smartwatch Coming This Summer The Apple Watch will have one more competitor in a few weeks, at least in two major markets. The Wall Street Journal has reported that Swatch CEO Nick Hayek made the big announcement at the company’s recent shareholders meeting. The Swatch smartwatch will not get a worldwide launch but will be available sometime this summer in Switzerland and “one b...
News to Watch This Week
There’s a new smartwatch coming this spring, but it’s not from Apple. Also in the news are a racy new timepiece that’s built for speed, price hikes on some major brands and a ritzy Big Apple boutique. Swatch Plans Smartwatch The world’s top makers of fine watches seem to have reacted to the coming of the smartwatches in stages similar to those of dealing with grief. At firs...
My New Automatic Swatch Jelly Fish
View the Automatic Swatch Jelly Fish photo gallery. In the 80's, where I went to elementary school, the more Swatches you owned, and the more you wore simultaneously, the cooler you were. I wasn't very cool because I only had one, but the one I had was, and still is,...
easyWatch Wants to be the New Swatch
easyGroup is a "business incubator" with a portfolio of companies from easyJet to easyPizza. It is essentially a brand, like Virgin, which is used to explore new and eclectic business opportunities. Their newest venture: the easyWatch. According to this Reuters article, the idea behind easyWatch is to fill the void...
Swatch Internet Time
I came across an interesting site recently called timeanddate.com which has answers to pretty much any and all time/date related questions. Among their many articles and resources, I found an extremely thorough explanation of Swatch Internet Time, including a tool for converting Internet Time to "standard" time in about 130...
Swatch’s New Scuba Collection: the Swatch Fun Scuba
Swatch continues to impress me with watches that are not only fun and affordable, but useful. First, I was won over by the Swatch Paparazzi, and now, as a recreational diver, the Swatch Fun Scuba. The Swatch Fun Scuba comes in seven distinct styles, all but one (the black "Moray's...
Review of the Swatch Paparazzi MSN Direct (SPOT) Watch
View the Paparazzi photo gallery. View the MSN Direct photo gallery. The Swatch Paparazzi is a refreshing and welcome addition to the existing line of MSN Direct watches. It's not that the existing models from Suunto, Fossil and Tissot are lacking -- in fact, I think they range from good...