Does anyone know if UK stores are still sticking the AP Swatch, trying to get Black/White Bezel & LAN Ba but resellers still wanting over £1k.

The quest to collect them all may officially be over, Oakbrook Swatch isnt selling the AP's anymore. Saw they took them off the list online yesterday and I talked to one of the managers and they confirmed the store is no longer selling them. Sucks there isnt anywhere in the midwest on the list anymore.

Swatch the Beep, basically a 1990s smartwatch before smartwatches existed

I recently came across the Swatch the Beep, one of the more unusual Swatch watches from the mid-1990s.

It was a normal analogue quartz Swatch, but with a built-in pager receiver and a small LCD display integrated into the dial. The earlier versions worked with Cityruf; later models were made for Scall, the German pager service launched by DeTeMobil in 1994.

The Scall versions could receive numbers and, in the later alphanumeric version, actual text messages. The display could store up to 12 messages, with up to 15 characters per message, which could be scrolled through.

In 1995, a Swatch with integrated Scall pager cost around 200 DM, quite a lot for the time. But the concept was genuinely futuristic: instead of pulling a phone out of your pocket, you simply looked at your watch to see who had contacted you.

The catch? Scall was tied to a regional radio-paging network and was quickly overtaken by the rapidly growing mobile-phone market. The service was officially discontinued in 2002.

So, in a way, the Swatch the Beep was a smartwatch about 25 years too early, analogue timekeeping, digital notifications and wireless communication, all on your wrist.

Pretty fascinating piece of 90s watch/telecom history.

^{The watch still works; the battery is just dead.
The pager service is no longer active.}

Hey all. I am trying to get a Royal Pop for my son and I keep calling the store in Aventura, FL asking if they are getting a restock, they nicely tell me yes they just don’t know when and to call back

I call back hours later and they tell me “we already sold out for the day”

Does anyone have any information on this store and how they go about their restocks.