Here is the extreme closeup of his watches:

He’s wearing Big Eclipse, just like he did in this other photo:

• Pick Me! » Wil Wheaton and Big Eclipse Swatch

He’s also wearing a Nautilus from the 1986 Spring Summer Collection. I was shocked to realize that I don’t actually HAVE this Swatch in my collection. I was sure that I had, but it’s not there. Here is the listing at Squiggly:

• Swatch Nautilus – Watch – GK102 | Squiggly Swatch Watches and Straps

It was an incredibly popular watch in its time and if you can find a new in box one now, it’s worth over two hundred dollars. Not bad for a watch that was supposed to be disposable.

Back to Wil, I’m always so sad when I see these old pictures of him. In almost every photo, he was smiling for the camera, but his eyes looked incredibly sad. His eyes didn’t match the smile. Now, when I see photos of him, he always looks really happy. I guess the teen years are hard on everyone.

Photo via: Wil Wheaton SuperTeen

Here is the official info from Swatch:

• Official Swatch Website: The Blum Collection

After the exhibit tours, it will be auctioned off by Phillipps de Pury. Here is a link to the Blum Collection on their site:

• Phillips de Pury & Company: THE BLUM COLLECTION
• View Entire Lot: Swatch The Blum Collection

This collection has prototypes for Swatches that are nearly impossible to find in their final form. They have seven iterations of Eclipses in a wide variety of colors that just make me green with envy.

Via: Swatch The Blum Collection catalog | SecondWatch Blog

Rodney Mullen is the skateboard dude at the end of the ad. The music in the background is Jewel by Propaganda.

Here’s one for the Aqua Love Swatches:

Here’s one that features my beloved Sir Swatch right at the end:

Here’s another commercial for the same collection. It’s poor quality, but so was television in The Eighties:

Here is a commercial featuring The Fat Boys for the Limelight Limited Edition Christmas Swatches:

Apparently, The Fat Boys were with Swatch way before my time. Here is a commercial from 1983:

This one features the very popular and elusive X-Rated Swatch:

This commercial from 1989 is beautiful. I don’t think I ever saw it back in the day.

Seeing old ads like these brings such a nostalgia for the Eighties for me. The bright colors, the X-sports, the lipstick-heavy girls and the Swatches all mix in a flux of the past.

I wouldn’t want to go back there, but it feels nice to remember.

Only five watches? I must have left the house in a hurry that day.

Only one of the watches is a Swatch. It’s the one on the right (his left wrist). It’s called Big Eclipse. I have a perfect one that I posted on Flickr long ago:

I also took a different Big Eclipse and made it into a faux Velvet Underground:

I love seeing these old Swatches in celebrity photos. It just makes me so happy!

It came out of magazine this month, but it looks so much like something from 1987 that I just had to keep it. The colors are so bright and her hair is spiked so high that it made me feel like I was seventeen years old again.

I have a nearly pristine version of this watch. I photographed it and posted the photos on Flicker here:

• Tonga | Flickr – Photo Sharing!

I sometimes forget how ubiquitous Swatches were during the Eighties. When I see a Swatch in an advertisement now, I’m completely surprised and it has been years since I’ve seen a celebrity wear a Swatch in a paparazzi photograph.

Photo via: Wil Wheaton SuperTeen, Submitted by lesliecrusher. 

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Here is the commercial for the Colour Code Swatches:

The postcard is advertising the new Swatch Club watch called Street Club.

Looks pretty cool!