I am curious, the 'Swatch" watch - battery powered? If so, does it have the swatch battery (essentially sticks out a little with a slot in it for a flat head screw driver)? Does the band connect with the special "swatch" connector? Swatch does that to force you to buy replacement bands from them. Sort of has notches in it.
I was in a swatch store in Hong Kong yesterday and I double checked, 100% of all their battery powered watches was as I mentioned.
Michael
Ahhh, ok, this is serious proof that the f-price watch is a knockoff after all, because:
Yes, it's battery powered and,
No, it does not have the proprietary Swatch battery/slot/connector.
However, re:
lppenguin's
extremely thoughtful post just above:
So they copy the good stuff and change the name and sometimes logo slightly. The change is often nothing more than to add or change a letter in the name.
The name on the "Swatch" watch is "Swatch" in what looks to me like the exact same style real Swatch watches use and it
does have what looks like an exact replica of the Swatch Swiss flag on it that they also use.
For these reasons, as well as it's relatively high build quality, I surmised that it could well indeed be
basically genuine -- perhaps a discontinued model made on the same assembly line and with the same quality components after that factory's contract with Swatch to make this watch had expired.
And I reread the post and cannot see how Fossil got mixed up in this, maybe a typo by OP?
Nah, no typo, not that I'm not prone to them.
Wish I now had a screen shot of the original listing, but the watch was explicitly described in their copy as a Fossil brand watch. Lots of confusion, even by me in the way I presented this deal here, between the Fossil designation in the listing and the "Diesel Time" mark on the watch itself. Sorry for all that.
The deal now is $4.62 with free shipping. Hard to lose on this deal regardless.
Bottom line, this is the way I felt. :thumbsup:
Additionally and again, I can say
this since I now have one . . . the "Swatch" watch, knockoff or no, is of admirably decent build quality that both looks and feels good, which augurs well for the year or so of non-embarrassing beater duty I'll get out of it.
I'll say it one last time: the "Swatch" watch was a great, great deal imho.