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[Swatch] X Blancpain seems to be a dud (alien.top)

submitted 11 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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[–] eta2750@alien.top 2 points 11 months ago

To be expected. Blancpain has never been a "cool" brand. The Fifty Fathoms is ugly and dated. Sparse to a fault, like those Unimatic watches. Just my opinion, to each their own. It's also $400 plastic watch that can't be serviced. The ETA quartz movement in the Moonswatch runs on batteries and objectively has a longer theoretical service life vs a sistem51 movement.

The color selection is hideous. There's no "Mission to the Moon" option available. Imagine a black on black bezel option with the iconic yellow/red no rads indicator...but of course people would never bother buying the real thing if that were the case. The Fifty Fathoms doesn't have the same mythological pull that the Moonwatch has.