Tuesday, July 7, 2009

:: Fab Finds :: S.TA.M.P.S. Watches



So while I was heading to Vancouver Island on holidays and for my brother graduation, I was riding the ferry and stumbled upon these fabulous finds, in the ferry gift shop of all places!

They are called S.T.A.M.P.S. Basically they are watch faces that come in all kinds of designs and colors that you can interchange with different colored straps. You buy the watch faces and the straps separate from each other, so there are a lot of options and combination to create.

Here is a little bit of the companies history:

"In 1996 the former brand manager of Citizen Europe, Mr. Andreas Schweneker and the former promotions manager of Swatch, Mr. Peter Gschwind come up with an idea for a watch resembling a stamp that would be available in a wide variety of designs and would have the ability to stick on multiple surfaces. Once settled on this idea they then recruit Mr. Elmar Mock one of the inventors of SWATCH for the technical development of this new idea.

After many prototypes and designs the first STAMPS watch emerges in the form of a vertical strip of 4 connected watches. Each watch has the ability to be snapped of the strip and used individually. The initial STAMPS line-up comes in 36 different designs. "


The watch faces sell for about $27.00 CAD and the straps about $20.00 CAD. Places i have found that sell them thus far are BC Ferries Gift Shops and Fab Finds Boutique (in Downtown Duncan) you can also see the whole collection at www.stamps.eu

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