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November 20, 2025
Swatch’s New OpenAI-Powered Tool Lets You Design Your Own Watch
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TL;DR
- Swatch introduced Swatch x You in 2017, a platform for customizing watches.
- The new AI-DADA tool uses AI to generate unique watch designs from text prompts.
- Each AI-DADA watch is marked as '1/1' to emphasize its uniqueness.
- Users are limited to three prompts per day on AI-DADA.
- Swatch has implemented guardrails against inappropriate or infringing designs, with further restrictions from OpenAI.
- The AI model's dataset includes over 40 years of Swatch designs, collaborations, and art.
- Swatch will own the rights to all AI-generated designs and customer data.
- The AI-DADA platform is currently limited to the New Gent watch model, not the popular MoonSwatch.
- The complex manufacturing process of MoonSwatches makes personalized versions difficult to produce currently.
- Swatch CEO Nick Hayek Jr. has not ruled out future customized MoonSwatches.
- AI-DADA will launch in Switzerland on November 21st, costing ₣170, with plans for wider international availability.
- Other Swatch models are expected to be added to the AI-DADA offering in the future.