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[Swatch] X Blancpain seems to be a dud (alien.top)
submitted 9 months ago by greyblacknavytan@alien.top to c/watches@style.land
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I was walking by the San Francisco Swatch store and dropped in to take a look at the Blancpain collaboration. The Swatch employee said they still only had limited colors of the MoonSwatch available but every color of the Blancpain was in stock. I’m not interested in either but it confirmed my suspicions that the Blancpain isn’t nearly as popular as the MoonSwatch, especially at the higher price point.

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[–] MotherAd1865@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago (20 children)

Even on this sub there are far fewer people posting their Swatch x Blancpain.
I think it's a combination of things: the higher price-point, Blancpain being less popular than Omega, and the watch craze is starting to die down a bit. People had lots of free time and extra cash during the pandemic years - that's been changing this past year or so.

[–] greyblacknavytan@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I think you’re right on all points. I’m surprised they didn’t just do a Seamaster instead. I assume they’re waiting for the next Bond film and we’ll see a Swatch X Omega Seamaster X Bond watch.

[–] judahrosenthal@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Seamaster would get great but Swatch Group is desperate to make Blancpain relevant. So far, no good.

[–] XwoeX@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

They should start by shrinking the FF 3 millimeters

[–] Bob_Chris@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

Yeah they completely missed the memo that people don't want big watches anymore.

[–] 3d_extra@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

They could have tried a lot of other things first.

[–] J22Jordan@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

BondSwatch

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