Skip to main content

Swatch Watches

Remember those? As I was browsing eBay (bad place to be...) for Hello Kitty items to go with this bedding set for my daughter, I got side tracked. Happens often. So I was poking around and checking things out. Mark reminded me of the United Colors of Benneton, which reminded me of this really cool watch my sister had from there. She was five years older and it was such a cool watch. Anyway, so then I remembered the Swatch watches. I go searching in eBay and lo and behold I found my first ever Swatch. My fishy watch! I asked for it for Christmas in the fifth grade (note to self: that watch now is being sold as vintage??!! Crap...). My mom wrapped it in a shoe box so I would not know which one it was. I do not know what happened to that watch. Over the years I collected some more. I had one like this. I had one with flags all around instead of numbers. I also had the guards. Both kinds. I even did the whole take two of the rubbery kind and twist them and put them on the watch. The watch was really hard to read that way, but I bet my Swatch's were actually less scratched up. (Note: this is a really cool site that seems to have all the Swatch watches made in the 80's. some that you can buy still. Sadly, mine is not available. Though I did find it on eBay....) As I got older, plastic watches were not so cool anymore. So I got one like this. Still Swatch. And as time went on I moved on. To Fossil. Citizen. Even my husband bought me a beautiful Movado watch last year for Christmas. But now, sitting here, I wish I still had my fish Swatch watch. Somehow, I think, it might make this whole turning thirty thing better in some odd way. Me and my vintage, retro Swatch.
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Welcome, Little One

Both mommy and baby are doing very well. These are just a few from earlier today. More to follow later.
26 comments
Read more

And Just Like That.....

I made the fatal mistake of reading reviews and articles before watching a single episode of the show.  I knew full well I would watch every episode regardless.  I read anyway.  Spoilers? Not bothered.   Let me give some back story here.   At 17/18 my dream had been to go to a big city (Chicago was my thinking at the time), get my degree in journalism/editing/publishing and go work at a big time magazine.  Keep in mind we are talking about the mid 90's here so the idea that magazines would cease to be relevant was not even on my radar.  I had been editor of my high school yearbook and unbeknownst to me at the time, we were actually doing the yearbook by coding and would get printouts hoping we had coded copy correctly.  I just typed the copy I was supposed to type with the weird little codes that had been given to me on a piece of paper.  I would later discover this was actually HTML code we were doing.  Who knew?  This fu...
Post a Comment
Read more

I Need A Break Before *I* Break

Damn.  There is so much swirling around in my little brain.....So. Much. I am getting ready to enter my most personally difficult time of the year.  Emotionally.  I am also entering my most difficult semester (and LAST!) of college.  Oh, and trying to train for another half marathon.  There are many days as of late that I am not sure how I'm doing it or even why at times.  I am trying to keep it together, trying to keep a balance.  But sometimes I am not sure I am doing so well.  With so many plates to juggle, even if they are ceramic plates, I often feel as though I am dropping one (or more).   I am trying to figure out what I want in life.  What is important to me.  What I need versus what I want.  And how it all fits together with various parts of my life.  I'm learning that sometimes what you think is important is not so much and things that you didn't pay much mind to are actually more importan...
1 comment
Read more