Swatch Sistem 51
#152 of 166 in the community watch ranking · 18 head-to-head votes
What makes it stand out
Swatch, often dismissed as the maker of plastic-cased, quartz-driven, mass-marketed timepieces for limited budgets and trend-driven youth, made the watch world sit up and take notice when it unveiled the Sistem51 in 2013. Priced at an astounding $150, the watch contained an innovatively designed 51-part mechanical movement with five assembly-line produced modules held together by a single central screw. Swatch has since expanded the collection from its original handful of models, including this one with a bold blue 3D-textured dial and a matching blue silicone strap.
Read the full story
Flip the watch over to get a glimpse of the groundbreaking self-winding caliber through a caseback window.
At a glance
- Material
- Blue plastic case; synthetic strap
- Case size
- 42 mm diameter
- Case height
- 13.9 mm
- Lug to lug
- 50.6 mm
- Movement
- Automatic
- Water resistance
- 30 meters
- Crystal
- Mineral
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How the crowd sees it
Swatch Sistem 51 has won 6 of 18 matchups (33%). Its community score is 838 crowns. It’s early: a few votes can still move this watch considerably.
Crowns are an Elo ranking score, not a star rating or a measure of manufacturing quality.
