I hate to say it, but it’s a disposable plastic watch.

 

Disposable is relative.

The thing costs £300 or so if we want to believe google.

£300 I could get a return flight with a real airline from London to the continent.

 

made me look... swatch specs are -

MISSION TO MERCURY SO33A100



Case material: Bioceramic



Case diameter: 42.00 mm



Case thickness: 13.25 mm



Lug-to-lug distance: 47.30 mm



Movement: quartz



Water resistance: 3 Bar



Strap: VELCRO®



Swatch should sort that out for you under warranty.

It happens.

heard of instances like these even with Glycine... heck this is glycines disclaimer. -
"NOTE: Glycine strongly advises NOT to shower with your watch, regardless the water resistance. Due to the temperature differences, the air in the watch can still condensate, even when it's a diving watch."
Even if its a diver mind you... smh.

same with Hamilton.

just a bit of bad luck.

 

made me look... swatch specs are -

MISSION TO MERCURY SO33A100



Case material: PLASTIC



Case diameter: 42.00 mm



Case thickness: 13.25 mm



Lug-to-lug distance: 47.30 mm



Movement: quartz



Water resistance: 3 Bar



Strap: VELCRO®



Swatch should sort that out for you under warranty.

It happens.

heard of instances like these even with Glycine... heck this is glycines disclaimer. -
"NOTE: Glycine strongly advises NOT to shower with your watch, regardless the water resistance. Due to the temperature differences, the air in the watch can still condensate, even when it's a diving watch."
Even if its a diver mind you... smh.

same with Hamilton.

just a bit of bad luck.

Fixed it.

 

Since it is plastic, it might not be fully sealed or have a gap somewhere within the case/crystal?

I would contact Swatch.

 

It should be laser or ultrasonically welded. Did not had much problems with Swatches and condensation in general.

 

Warranty if you ask me. Swatch would have to confirm of course. Yes it's a disposable plastic watch, but disposable items should still live up to their design operational life before they are disposed.

 

Its disposable, there's nothing you can do even if you knew what the problem was. Rip the battery hatch out, thrown it in a tub of rice overnight, and get that thing on eBay and out the door for a nice margin before anyone notices!

 

Remind me to never buy a watch from you 🫣

 

Moisture intrusion is often not included in the warranty. Even if the rating is 3 bar. Swatch, being Swatch, may choose to do the customer facing thing in this circumstance though.

 

I believe the only real way that moisture can get inside one of these is through the pushers, or if the crown was left pulled out.

 

If you see a white powder inside afterwards, then you can be sure to blame it one the pushers...

 

 

Disposable watch. Time to dispose?

 

It’s a plastic quartz watch. It prolly cost about $15 to make and is worth maybe twice as much. Those who paid thousands for it, I have no pity for……

 

Probably costs as much as your average Invicta to make and just as crappy.

 

Not necessarily a problem, according to Casio:

”The inside surface of the watch glass may fog when the watch is exposed to a sudden drop in temperature. No problem is indicated if the fogging clears up relatively quickly. Sudden and extreme temperature changes (such as coming into an air conditioned room in the summer and standing close to an air conditioner outlet, or leaving a heated room in the winter and allowing your watch to come into contact with snow) can cause it to take longer for glass fogging to clear up. If glass fogging does not clear up or if you notice moisture inside of the glass, immediately stop using your watch and take it to your original retailer or to an authorized CASIO service center.”

What should I do if the inside of the glass becomes fogged? | CASIO

The inside surface of the watch glass may fog when the watch is exposed to a sudden drop in temperature. No problem is indicated if the fogging clears up relatively quickly. Sudden and extreme temperature changes (such as coming into an air conditioned room in the summer and standing close to an...

www.casio.com

 

Part of the space experience

 

 

Wouldn't be surprised you have to pay the bin men to take and bin it.

 

...as an aside, you may want to clean your watch before showing it to the Swatch people....

 

Great watch!
I'd go in and ask them about it while it's in the warranty period and see what they have to say

 

Well the water didn't teleport into the watch, it must have gone in through a seal and then capillary actions sucks it in. Three bar or atm is industry jargon for splash proof and that is a very small splash. If it had been sold for what it is truly worth then you could either crack it open to dry it out or throw it away.

 

I would pop open the battery hatch, give it an opportunity to dry out. And not worry about it if it works once you seal it up again.

 

To those who submitted helpful responses to my question, thanks.

To those who clicked on this thread to post irrelevant jabs and criticisms, it’s just a bit sad really

Thanks all!

 

I happened to notice my Moonswatch has some condensation under the crystal.

Guess the quality of Swatch watches is not what it used to be. As a kid I wore all kinds of Swatch models in the pool, bath tub, shower, .... never had any problems.

Go to a Swatch dealer and have it exchanged under warranty. Or ask them whether they have a more robust model to give you in exchange. They probably still have diver style Swatches these days (?)

 

They do it’s called the Blancpain fifty fathoms 😉

 

It’s possible the watch was assembled in a humid environment. You might not have noticed a problem before, but now the cold weather is here, the moisture has condensed.

The Swatch warranty might not cover you for water ingress, but if the moisture was there to start with, they might fix it for you. This might be nothing more than opening the watch up and leaving it in a dry environment for a while.

 

It’s possible the watch was assembled in a humid environment.

Given the size of the factory involved I'm sure we'd have heard of more of this if it were true!

As I recall, Swatch says that 30m is at least splash-proof. If the watch was splashesld onto it, and got in via the pushers when it shouldn't have, I don't see why you can't take it back where you bought it and get them to exchange it. The only other entry point for water is the little battery hatch on the back, and that has a rubber gasket. Conceivably that might have worked itself loose to allow sweat in.

As others have said, it's a sealed/welded unit that can't be dismantled.

 

Pull the crown, take out the battery, if you have silica gel to put close to it and inside a container go for it otherwise put it close to a ventilated heat source, rice is not effective.
It is what it is tho, as many pointed out, this thing was not built to last so this kind of stuff is to be expected and hard to deal with too since you can't really open it.

 

If you Google “ice cube test watch” (for example) you will see that pretty much any watch that is taken from a warm environment to a very cold one can develop some minor and temporary fogging on the inner side of the crystal. This includes Omega and the likes. It is because cold air can hold much less moisture than warm air, so condensation happens. And since the crystal is now the coldest part of the watch, in contact with the outside cold air, this is where the fogging appears. Any trace of moisture in the air inside a watch will result in minor fogging under such circumstances. As long as it is temporary, minor (no actual droplets formed) and limited to a small area on the crystal, the movement/electronics should not be affected.

On this very forum, about an Oris fogging when going from warm to cold: “perfectly normal”

https://www.watchuseek.com/threads/fog-after-temperature-change.4908061/

 

Some fogging in some conditions is perfectly normal, though extent of this "normal" vary like "mint", "tough" etc. in the eyes of WUS posters.
If whatever OP shows goes away in a minute and it appears when exposed to chilly 0 or below 5-7C outside ... it is normal. If it observed in a warm room... different story.

 

I just don't get all that hate against the moonswatch. A watch designed by Omega, produced by Swatch, and covered by warranty.

And fog/condensation looks like a straight out QC problem, warranty case.

 

I just don't get all that hate against the moonswatch. A watch designed by Omega, produced by Swatch, and covered by warranty.

And fog/condensation looks like a straight out QC problem, warranty case.

"designed" by Omega is a ***** of a stretch, but it's just badly made with a plethora of issues that have been beaten to death since release. That's the reason why people don't like it.

 

I don't know if this is right or wrong- but if that were my watch I would consider opening the crown and use a hair dryer on low heat on it. Try to get some warm, low humidity air in there that can absorb the moisture. Then let it cool somewhere very dry so that warm air inside, which is now humid, has time to hopefully escape through the open crown. Once cool and dry close the crown.

Could be worth a try...

 

Right idea, and this watch has a battery door that the OP could open. I’d then put it in a bag of rice or — even better — a ziplock with a couple desiccant gel packets (no dust unlike dry rice).

 

Even an open crown is still sealed as far as I know. That explains the 100m wr for push pull crowns. Screw down crown s have an additional seal against the crown and the tube or some variant of it and a thicker case and crystal.