CollectoMania Swatch The Club
Event, Duisburg, Germany, 10-FEB-2007
The Duisburg-Nord Landschaftspark (Country Park) is a massive industrial wasteland, measuring 200 hectares, which has been transformed over a period of more than ten years into a multifunctional park. At the centre of the park there is a decommissioned metalworks, the old industrial facilities of which are today being put to a variety of different uses.
So we arrived during a rainy saturday in the early afternoon near the Gebläsehallenkomplex (Blower house complex) and followed the "Swatch" signs towards the entrance:
waiting for the opening of the doors...
At exactly 3pm, the doors opened and a
long queue formed at the entrance.
In this first room,many tables were
decorated with large and small Swatch advertising posters and other
display props from recent collections. Each participant had
received a paper sheet where he could order items from this first room
up to 100 points free of charge. Small posters were 5 points,
displays holding 5 watches were 40 points and so on.
Skander is giving out all the details
Michael cannot decide quickly?!?
Later in the afternoon, the second room
(the "treasure" room) was opened to the public. Collectors could
enter the room in the order of the application fax for the event.
This room had many interesting things for
sale:
Lots of huge Swatch banners (one at least
20 meters
long [BoarderX]). Mainly stuff that was made for Club events
and that was not fully distributed (eg. Jackets for last xmas
event, T-shirts etc.). The only really old item was a "12 Flags"
display (about 140 cm x 50 cm in size):
The rest of stuff was from the current millennium (ie. the 2000s):
Sale! Sale! Sale! (Jackets were only 20 EUR each!)
I don't think that the green soccer box was sold
Long queues at the cashiers desk!
It is the automatic Punching with a special strap and a nice black paper sleeve. As about 80 club member participated at the event, only about 80 of the 300 specials were given out, so the CollectoMania special is quite rare.
Food was excellent, and we were
entertained with the Movienight of Extremesports video, and some more videos from
recent club events.
