It has been a bountiful year for 15-year-old indoor skydiver Kyra Poh. The Singaporean teenager recently took home the freestyle junior champion title at the 2nd FAI World Indoor Skydiving Championships that took place from 18 to 23 October 2017 in Laval, Montreal, Canada. Not bad considering that this was her first Freestyle Junior World Championship title. Poh triumphed, beating … More
In April 2017, Swatch launched their Skin collection at indoor skydiving centre, iFly Singapore located on Sentosa Island. The star of the Swatch Skin collection launch event, apart from the watch novelties, was none other than fourteen-year-old indoor skydiver Kyra Poh. We applaud this as it is a brilliant idea to have “a world record holder” who is local to … More
Products that are risk-flagged, in a sense, serve as alerts to indicate some level of risk involved if one were considering dealing with such items. For us, timepieces that are “wrist-flagged” (pun intended) are watches worthy of mention or perhaps recommendation, or even both, for noteworthy reasons. The Swatch Cherry-Berry / SG50 (GR154N) Special Edition in red and the Swatch … More
Is the complete assembly of a mechanical watch on a fully-automated production line an abstraction? At this juncture, it is good to recall that just over 30 years ago, Swatch produced a simplified quartz wristwatch comprising 51 component parts on a fully-automated assembly line. The result was affordable Swiss-made watches. After 30 years, progress would have been made in watchmaking … More
When is a Picasso not truly a Picasso? When it is an art piece drawn by French artist Christian Chapiron. Well, sort of. Chapiron, alias Kiki Picasso, goes down in Swatch watch history as the gentleman who helped launch “the love story of Swatch and art” in 1985 when the “Kiki” was launched. That is because the “Kiki” watch is … More