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What Ever Happened To Your Swatch Watches?
Unless you were a complete loser, you had
at least two or three Swatch watches when growing up in the 80s. If you
were really cool, you had a dozen or more and you wore two or three at the
same time. Why? God only knows. I did it, but I cannot, for the life of
me, remember why we thought it was cool. Like many of the things that
defined the 80s, Swatch watches were a trend that everyone seemed to
follow without rhyme or reason.
Swatch watches weren’t just watches – they were a culture. Everyone had
them and there were stores established dedicated to selling nothing but
these highly-coveted timepiece accessories. In fact, Swatch watches were
accessories that had accessories of their own. They sold Swatch watch
“guards” that went over the face of the watch. Again, everyone had them,
but I couldn’t for the life of me figure out any functional purpose for
them.
If you were really into Swatch watches, you could buy Swatch watches
called Swatch Pops that allowed you to attach your watches to your
clothing, Swatch wall clocks that were giant swatch watches that you could
hang on your bedroom wall and some people even bought Swatch watches to
wear as ponytail hair bands. Yes, a costly hair band, but a hair band
nonetheless.
If you still have a few of your old Swatch watches, you may be surprised
to find out they’ve become quite the collector’s item. Yes indeed, serious
Swatch enthusiasts never let the trend die and now they pay top dollar for
the Swatch watches of yesteryear. Bottom line is this – if you still have
your Swatch watches and you want to wear them, do so with pride (as long
as you only wear one at a time). If have them and you have no use for
them, sell them to a collector and you can make a pretty penny for those
80s Swatch watches you have lying around.
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