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.
The moonswatch in itself is already a really bad value watch tbh
The blancpain is more painful pricing
Even on this sub there are far fewer people posting their Swatch x Blancpain.
I think it’s a combination of things: the higher price-point, Blancpain being less popular than Omega, and the watch craze is starting to die down a bit. People had lots of free time and extra cash during the pandemic years - that’s been changing this past year or so.I think you’re right on all points. I’m surprised they didn’t just do a Seamaster instead. I assume they’re waiting for the next Bond film and we’ll see a Swatch X Omega Seamaster X Bond watch.
The MoonSwatch was cool cause the colors made sense and actually looked good. None of the Blancpain colors look good.
I just looked them up for the first time and they look like plastic children’s toys that you’d get at Walmart.
What immediately turned me off is they are not serviceable. If it breaks down…which it will…you get to toss in the garage.
This is the problem with BlancPain as a whole. Good product, but massively overpriced.
As others have stated they are overhyped “watches” that can’t even be serviced. People paying hundreds for a disposable watch.
The watch community seems rather disdainful of both of them overall. Flawed watches for high prices is my impression of the general discontent with them.
Of course it is. Nobody other than watch enthusiasts ever heard the name Blancpain before.