From its earliest days, Swatch has treated the watch as a canvas—an object capable of carrying culture, color, and commentary. With the new Swatch × Guggenheim Collection, the brand deepens that ethos, partnering with Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection to reinterpret four defining works of 20th-century art as wearable design objects.
The collection brings together masterpieces by Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Paul Klee, and Jackson Pollock—artists whose approaches to movement, light, symbolism, and abstraction reshaped modern visual language. Three of the original works reside at the Guggenheim in New York, while Pollock’s Alchemy belongs to the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, creating a transatlantic dialogue echoed throughout the watches themselves.
More than reproductions, these timepieces translate painterly gestures into form, material, and motion. A shared design detail—a double-length second hand—quietly nods to time’s elasticity, reinforcing the idea that art history and contemporary life are constantly in conversation.
Degas’s Dancers with Swatch x Guggenheim
Guggenheim x Swatch Collection featuring Degas.
Guggenheim x Swatch Collection featuring Degas.
Inspired by Dancers in Green and Yellow (1903), Degas’s Dancers captures the grace and discipline of the ballerina through a cropped, intimate lens. The dial focuses on the feet of a dancer mid-movement, while the strap unfurls soft tulle-like forms in sun-washed yellows and greens. It’s a poetic interpretation of Degas’s obsession with motion and repetition—where practice becomes performance with Swatch x Guggenheim.
“Through the Art Journey initiative, masterpieces from the Guggenheim Museums in New York and Venice come to life in a new, unexpected form… reflecting our shared commitment to making art accessible to broad and diverse audiences.”
— Karole P. B. Vail, Director, Peggy Guggenheim Collection
Monet’s Palazzo Ducale
Guggenheim x Swatch Collection featuring Monet.
Guggenheim x Swatch Collection featuring Monet.
With Monet’s Palazzo Ducale, Swatch turns light itself into a design feature. Drawn from The Palazzo Ducale, Seen from San Giorgio Maggiore (1908), the watch layers Impressionist brushstrokes across dial and strap, evoking Venice’s shifting reflections. A hidden glow-in-the-dark effect reveals a warm orange radiance after UV exposure, a playful nod to Monet’s obsession with atmosphere and time of day.
“Swatch understands Time as few others do, and their generosity will ensure that these priceless works of art can be enjoyed by the public for decades and centuries to come.”
— Dr. Mariët Westermann, Director and CEO, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation
Klee’s Bavarian Don Giovanni
Guggenheim x Swatch Collection featuring Paul Klee.
Guggenheim x Swatch Collection featuring Paul Klee.
Whimsical, coded, and deeply personal, Klee’s Bavarian Don Giovanni reimagines Paul Klee’s 1919 painting—often read as a veiled self-portrait—as a graphic, playful object. The central figure climbs a ladder across the dial, while the names of five women appear on the strap. A rotating calendar wheel changes color daily, echoing Klee’s own confessions about shifting infatuations and creative moods.
“Four masterpieces, handpicked by the curatorial teams and reimagined by Swatch as ‘art for the wrists’—a meaningful step in bringing art closer to people, across the world.”
— Carlo Giordanetti, CEO, Swatch Art Peace Hotel
Pollock’s Alchemy for Swatch x Guggenheim
Guggenheim x Swatch Collection featuring Jackson Pollock.
Guggenheim x Swatch Collection featuring Jackson Pollock.
Perhaps the most visceral of the quartet, Pollock’s Alchemy channels the raw energy of Alchemy (1947), created at the height of Jackson Pollock’s drip-painting breakthrough. Explosive splatters race across both dial and strap, mirroring the physicality of Pollock’s process. The resulting Swatch x Guggenheim watch feels untamed, kinetic, and unmistakably modern—an homage to abstraction as lived experience.
“From our earliest collaborations to this latest tribute, we and the Guggenheim have bridged art and daily life… supporting initiatives aimed at safeguarding artistic treasures for generations to come.”
Available globally from January 15, 2026, the Swatch × Guggenheim Collection continues Swatch’s long-standing mission to democratize art—transforming museum icons into everyday companions, and reminding wearers that time, like art, is best experienced in motion.
Guggenheim x Swatch Collection.
Guggenheim x Swatch Collection.
