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Old 9 December 2010, 10:53 PM   #1
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Icon20 It all started back in the 80's

My passion for watches comes from childhood, but only started collecting them back in the 80's... Here are some swatches in my collection ;-)

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Old 10 December 2010, 10:25 AM   #2
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Nice, I recall these at my college (UCLA) days, they were hot!
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Old 11 December 2010, 01:00 PM   #3
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Dude the colors the colors..
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Old 11 December 2010, 01:11 PM   #4
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Love em!
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Old 12 December 2010, 01:20 AM   #5
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Dude the colors the colors..
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Old 12 December 2010, 01:22 AM   #6
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Love em!
I treasure them... Especially the 1st models. My 1st was "Sir Swatch"
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Old 12 December 2010, 11:27 PM   #7
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It`s really great to see all those old Swatches! It looks like time capsule or something!
Now I`m sorry that I was not into Swatches during the eighties, I was more like Casio fan!
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Old 13 December 2010, 09:39 PM   #8
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It`s really great to see all those old Swatches! It looks like time capsule or something!
Now I`m sorry that I was not into Swatches during the eighties, I was more like Casio fan!
I had my share of those too ;-)

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Old 14 December 2010, 12:24 AM   #9
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very.... 1980s
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Old 14 December 2010, 08:19 AM   #10
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very.... 1980s
Funny that the current collection is very retro... They remind the original ones
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Old 5 January 2011, 03:57 AM   #11
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Haha, brings back memories. Nice
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Old 6 January 2011, 10:50 AM   #12
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Haha, brings back memories. Nice
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