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14 unusual facts about Swatch


Adam Gussow

Gussow's other musical credits include five months with the bus-and-truck tour of Big River; commercials for Coca-Cola, Nestea, and Swatch; and two decades as a harmonica instructor at the Guitar Study Center in New York and Jon Gindick's harmonica jam camps.

Belouis Some

The video for the second release "Some People", also directed by Thorgerson, was used as a Swatch television advertisement in the U.S.

Charles Kaisin

He has carried out projects for the offices in Paris of Le Louvre Abu Dhabi, for Swatch, for the MAC's (Museum of Contemporary Art Grand-Hornu, Belgium), for the luxury house Delvaux, Royal Boch and for the fashion brand Chine Collection.

Christian Hosoi

This, combined with major endorsements with Converse, Swatch, and Jimmy'Z, as well as receiving a pro model wheel, the OJ II Hosoi Rocket through Santa Cruz Speed Wheels, earning Hosoi more money than he had ever dreamed of.

Christian Michelides

In the 1980s, Michelides was a collaborator for the newly founded magazine WIENER; he then joined the ad agency GGK Wien and the marketing team of the Swiss watch Swatch in Biel.

Fulvio Bonavia

Though he has shot ad campaigns for a wide range of international clients, such as Adidas, Heineken, Swatch, Amnesty International, and Alitalia, he is best known for his campaigns for automotive companies including Jaguar, BMW, Saab, Alfa Romeo, Daimler-Chrysler, and Audi.

Gérald Poussin

After publishing albums of comic strips such as Tendences d�biles (1979), Papiers Gras (1981), Aventures de Buddy et Flappo (1983), and Le clan cervelas (1986), he became a painter, sculptor, illustrator (of Fables de la Fontaine 1996), poster artist, furniture maker, carpet designer, jewelry designer, and watch designer, most notably for Swatch.

Julien Vallée

He has created works for many international clients including MTV, Swatch and the New York Times Magazine.

Matteo Thun

Between 1990 and 1993, he worked as the Creative Director at Swatch.

Murder of Sally Anne Bowman

She took part in the Swatch Alternative Fashion Week in April of the same year and described her experience there.

Nicolas Hayek

Hayek played a decisive role in the recovery of the Swatch Group with its watch brands Swatch, Blancpain, Omega, Longines, Rado, Tissot, Certina, Mido, Hamilton, Pierre Balmain, Calvin Klein, Flik Flak, Breguet and Lanco.

Peetu Piiroinen

He won the 2008/2009 Swatch TTR World Snowboard Championship and received much favourable press in his native country of Finland.

Robert Mazlo

He also designed watches for ETA SA (Swatch and Rockwatch) and collaborated with ST Dupont for the design of barrels and clips set with diamonds.

Zeus B. Held

In 1995 he wrote and recorded the music for a worldwide advertising campaign for Swatch.


Endura

Endura Watch Factory, a "Private Label" watch manufacturing company of the Swatch Group

Grey Organisation

GO’s recognition begun to grow outside of the art world when Lynne Franks launched the Grey Organisation into the 1980s' world of PR; modelling for Katherine Hamnett at The Albert Hall and Yohji Yamamoto in Paris; supporting Red Wedge; meeting Neil Kinnock at the Houses of Parliament; and promoting Swatch watches.

Marijne van der Vlugt

Marijne started her career as a VJ for MTV Europe Central from London in the early 1990s and hosted such shows as Alternative Nation (every Wednesdays from 23:00), and the fashion world show The Pulse with Swatch.

Robbie Maddison

Maddison's sponsors include Red Bull, Skullcandy, Swatch, Dunlop Sport, DC Shoe Company, Arnette, KMC, KTM, mophie, Parts Unlimited, Crusty.com, Stomp grip, Cernics, FMF Racing, VP racing fuels, Amerigas, Acerbis, Works Connection, Hammerhead, and Pro Taper.

Swatch Internet Time

PHP's date() function has a format specifier 'B' which returns the Swatch Internet Time notation for a given time stamp.

The Ultimate Prom Nite

The prizes for the Ultimate Prom King and Queen included Celebrity Fitness membership, return trip tickets to Gold Coast, Australia by Air Asia X, an appearance together in the 8TV Quickie, Swatch merchandise, and RM10,000 cash each.

Yoandri Kindelán

Yoandri Kindelán Álvarez is a male beach volleyball player from Cuba, who participated with Leonel Munder in the SWATCH-FIVB U-21 Men's World Championships in Mysłowice, Poland finishing in the 29th position in the Qualification Tournament.