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Blag yourself a Collector’s Edition “Winter Exclusive” Vannen Watch by Chris Bettig for Christmas! Only 100 Worldwide.
The competition is very simple, all you need to do is complete the sentence and then the very “Best Blag for Bettig” wins this cracker of a prize! Christopher Bettig will be your judge, so please, be inventive. Complete the following sentence:
“All I want for Christmas is Bettig’s Vannen because…”
Whoever gives us the very best blag will win the Christopher Bettig Vannen. There are only 100 watches worldwide so this is a really a very, very awesome and super collectible prize up for you bunch of blaggers!!! Prize is courtesy of Vannen Watches and comes blind packed in a limited edition Snow Pack. You may even be lucky enough to win a much coveted “Silver Snowflake Chase” version which is super rare, limited to only 10 watches worldwide and is strictly a surprise colour variant. The “Silver Snowflake Chase” is signed, numbered and screenprinted by the artist himself, Chris! If you end up with the snowflake watch, we guess that means you’ve got good luck and blagged yourself a double cracker. Congratulations!
Entrants have EXACTLY one week to give us their “Best Blag for Bettig”. This gives us just about enough time to deliver your prize before Christmas. Closing date for entry is Friday 18th December 2009.
Vannen’s latest crew member and artist of the “Winter Exclusive” prize, Christopher Bettig, will be judging your entries!!!
Chris is a French / American artist currently based in LA, his work has been featured in solo exhibits in LA, NYC and San Francisco as well as in group shows in Japan, Australia, North America and Europe. Several international publications have also featured his work such as Lucky Magazine and The New York Times. In 2004 Chris founded The Mountain Label, where he handles a wide range of design projects for: Analogue Books, Arden B., Carhartt-Europe & Japan, 2K, Circa, Converse, Fila, Nike, Nili Lotan, Poketo, Puma, Urban Outfitters, Threadless, Vannen and more.
How to enter…
Simply post a comment with your best blag using the form below. Alternatively, you can enter the competition via Twitter by tweeting your blag plus the following hashtag: #bettigblag @theneonhive
Please be sure to use the correct email address* if entering via the comment form, or be available on twitter to reply to a DM, as we will be using this method of communication to contact you and arrange delivery of the prize!
CLOSING DATE: No later than midnight December 18, 2009.
WINNER: The winner will be announced on December 19, 2009.
OTHER INFO: UK only competition. Sorry but we cannot guarantee Christmas delivery outside of the UK so made the decision to keep it UK only. This is not an opportunity to solicit any x-rated wares. Spam will be trashed.
* Your email address is required only so that we can contact you if you are the winner. Email addresses will not be posted on the website nor will they be given to any third parties who may try to sell you a three-legged llama with one eye.
Competition Promoter: The Neon Hive Ltd. (UK) click here for full terms of the promotion.
December 12, 2009 | Tags: Art, Christmas, Christopher Bettig, Competition, Fashion, Vannen
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…the watch is awesome. But hey, I don’t live in the UK, ergo I don’t qualify, henceforth I may write a bit more then. I am of a rather opinionated disposition, and there is nothing I don’t hate about Vannen. Double negative = a positive? Fine, what’s wrong with being positive? I have 3 Vannen watches. I keep them on different time zones. Yes, I know there’s an iPhone app for that. But can you strap your iPhone to your wrist and set it with permanently cool wallpaper? Oh, you can? Huh. Well, if you do that, hats off to you, but you just bought Steve Jobs another Pixar. Why not support a great little Los Angeles operation, individual artists and shops/sites like this who dedicate themselves to the success of niche brands–to the extent of giving you cool stuff for free!
Posted by Jeremy Brautman (Twitter: @jeremyriad) on December 13, 2009 at 1:16 am…I already have the other 99
Posted by Ed Morris on December 14, 2009 at 1:38 pm…because having never heard of this spectacular brand of watches and now, realising how extremely cool they are, I don’t think I can carry on life without one. So basically, if you don’t want my death on your conscience then give it to me!
Posted by George Fisher on December 14, 2009 at 1:40 pmOk, so that’s not true. I don’t have the other 99 nor do I even have one. All I want for Christmas is Bettig’s Vannen because Chris promised that he would give me one (a watch) at his Oct 9th ‘Foreverever’ exhibition at the DDR Projects in Longbeach and I would like to think he is true to his word!
Having flown out to LA especially for the exhibition I was over the moon that Chris showed up with his close friend Joel Speasmaker to discuss the inspiration behind some of his work and a number of my favourite prints; namely ‘pears,’ ‘we are not two we are one,’ but especially ‘whale of a tale’ which in fact was the inspiration behind my decision to become a whaler off the Japanese coast of Wakayama after graduating from University. Whilst some find my profession controversial, I find it incredibly rewarding and I have Chris to thank for this.
So what better way to show my appreciation to Chris than modelling his fine artwork, not just for Christmas but for life.
P.S. – this tale, whilst mostly routed in truth, may contain some elements of exageration, primarily those surrounding whaling.
Posted by Ed Morris on December 14, 2009 at 2:03 pmAll I want for Christmas is Bettig’s Vannen because I need something to go with the jumper Granny knits me each year.
Posted by Anonymous on December 14, 2009 at 11:31 pmThanks for your blags for Bettig, please keep them coming!!! Just a reminder that we need to you to leave your name and email address* so that we can notify you if your blag is deemed to be the best blag!
No name + No email address = No prize!
If you have already entered your blag, and forgot to leave your name or email address, just Say Hi! and we can update your entry.
*Your email address is required purely for the purpose of notifying the prizewinner. Email addresses are not published on this website nor are they given to third parties who may try to sell you a three-legged llama with one eye! Never have, never will.
Posted by Molly (Twitter: @theneonhive) on December 15, 2009 at 10:52 am… it’ll sell for more than coal. (I’ve been bad this year.)
Posted by Holly on December 15, 2009 at 12:24 pmBecause there will be NO white christmas unless this watch is on my wrist. Then we will be chasing the silver snowflakes together….
Posted by Charlie Oakley on December 15, 2009 at 2:36 pmBecause we are always forgettings how long we spend with our clients
Posted by Monkey & Dracula on December 15, 2009 at 2:46 pmAll I want for Christmas is Bettig’s Vannen because I need something to go with the jumper Granny knits me each year, so much so I had to come back and add my name.
Posted by Felicity Wade-Palmer on December 15, 2009 at 8:00 pmAll I want for Christmas is Bettig’s Vannen because it makes me drool! If I went to one I’d wear it to school! I’d like to add that I’d take it off before I went in the pool because I’m no fool. I’d treat it with care like a precious jewel. To deny me this watch would just be cruel, and I know that you are not as a rule!
Posted by James Shepherd on December 16, 2009 at 1:31 amI want the vannen watch cause it would help me realise how precious time is, this would then lead to me spending less time going to strip clubs and drinking and playing guitar hero and drinking and dancing like my dad and drinking and working and drinking and going to more strip clubs.
So this watch would improve my life… or would it!!!
Posted by Petey (Twitter: @theneonhive) on December 16, 2009 at 1:05 pmPete, you are totally busted! Don’t think we didn’t see you try and sneak your blag through!!! Hawk Eye is watching YOU! Competition closed to Neon Hivers. Word. Your entry is disqualified though the grounds for you having a Vannen in your life are pretty substantial. Mx
Posted by Molly (Twitter: @theneonhive) on December 16, 2009 at 1:11 pmAll I want for Christmas is Bettig’s Vannen because if I win, I will do the longest freedom run through the witterings known to man, then get a Bettig Vannen tattoo, then catch a plane to each nation of the world, take a photo of me wearing the watch in each capital, make a video and huge collage that also works on a website. People can follow my movements around the globe spreading the word of BETTIG x VANNEN. Peace in the middle east. x
Posted by JP Dangermouse on December 16, 2009 at 1:14 pmAll I want for Christmas is Bettig’s Vannen because at present, my wrist is a huge expanse of empty flesh, with nothing but a few hairs and a feint freckle to help me relate my meagre existence to time.
Posted by Matt Glass on December 16, 2009 at 1:19 pmWithout a watch, I’ve found it very difficult to nurse my ailing, disabled best friend back to some form of normal life. I keep arriving late for his bed baths and having to clean up an awful mess.
Without a watch, I am also struggling to honour my commitments as a broker of world peace. Only the other day, I was supposed to chair a meeting between the Israeli and Palestinian leaders, but I pitched up ten minutes late and the buggers had already traded blows, stropped off and vowed to kill each other.
My lack of a watch has also led to the breakdown of the Irish peace agreement in recent months (I really don’t want to go into that one. Very embarrassing), and me being late for everything has been proven by scientists to be indirectly linked to global warming.
Panda bears are rapidly becoming extinct – largely due to my timekeeping issues – and David Bellamy has launched a hate campaign against me after learning that the remnants of my last watch (which broke), are posing a direct threat to the chimpanzees of Western Africa.
City bankers have, in recent interviews, blamed the collapse of the economy almost entirely on my empty wrist, and leading doctors have suggested that, simply by slightly weighing down my left arm with some kind of timepiece, they expect to find a cure for AIDS, cancer and thrush.
Finally, by giving me the watch you’d ensure that Ed Morris doesn’t get it. Giving Ed the watch would be rather like giving Superman’s enemies the key to a Kryptonite mine.
I mustn’t go on. But if you’d like to hear more, please request my hypothesis, entitled ‘Why giving me that watch would save the world’. It’s a heavy-going read, but incredibly enlightening.
Good Mornings,
Posted by Mrs Saladu on December 16, 2009 at 1:19 pmI would very much like this beautiful timepiece to give to my hard working husband, Nigel. We have travelled to this simply enchanting country to discover the true meaning of life and love, and that we have. We have made true beautiful friends which will be in our hearts for every more, one day we hope to returns to Mbagwe and take gifts to our families. To do this Nigel must start getting to his networking appointments on time, without a timepiece this is very hard for him.
So this is why I ask you Mr Neon Hive is you could reach in to your hearts and show us such generousness, it will indeed make us both smile.
Most highest blessings.
Mrs. Sally Saladu.
All I want for Christmas is Bettig’s Vannen because it may help cure me. My left wrist currently suffers from a very serious condition referred to as lackofdecentwatchenitis. This condition, if not treated properly, will very quickly manifest itself into the more life threatening strain commonly referred to as, whatthehellisthetimeitis. Although not directly life threatening this condition does create many situations that can then lead to certain death, such as being late to an interview, resulting in loss of job opportunity, potential earnings and ultimately, after a long and miserable time on the street, death through starvation or nasty acquired infection! Please help!
Posted by Nick on December 16, 2009 at 3:37 pmBecause I currently only possess one watch and need one for the other wrist.
Yes, I know I only need one such chronograph in order to know the present time; but I live in constant fear that if I were to become lost in the wilderness, by being weighted down only on one side I would wander in giant, hopeless circels until tracked down and devoured by bears. “Why not throw the other watch away in such a circumstance?” I hear you say. Well, let me answer your question with another question: If I did that, what am I then going to trade with the savage, cannabalistic natives in return for safe passage through their territory? Think about it. I mean, wouldn’t you hate to be the guy who abandoned a watch in order to walk in a straight line, only to then become the subject of a future Ray Mears special where he points out that had I maintained possession of my valuables, I might still be alive today? I know I would. Don’t get me wrong, I’m a risk-taker – Oh, the stories I could tell you – but some things simply aren’t worth it.
Also, I once saw a McGuyver episode where he used the face of a watch to create fire, and mine has a disappontingly concave piece of glass making it entirely inappropriate for such an endeavour.
Posted by Timmy S on December 16, 2009 at 3:51 pm… Because I am about as poor as a church mouse that has been subjected to a series of random street robberies, I do not have the financial wherewithal to ensure one of Vannen’s fab timepieces adorns my malnourished (yet strangely stylish) wrist. As a result of this penury, the only chance I might ever get at acquiring such an object of desire would be if I sold my entire family into servitude; this would obviously be a great shame as I have grown somewhat attached to them over the years *Sniff* – of course, if you do not grant my one and only Christmas wish, the impending slavery of my nearest and dearest will be on your consciences.
I remain, sirs, your humblest of servants.
Posted by Tiny Tim on December 17, 2009 at 9:49 pmEsteemed sirmadam,
Please allow me to introduce myself as Count Doodoo, former private equerry and bottlewasher to His Serene Highness, Crown Prince Umbongo, the rightful and just ruler of our great nation who was recently deposed in a senseless coup, and forced into exile a long way from his people in some remote part of our wonderful planet where tax, for some inexplicable reason, is not paid by residents.
I have spent many days searching the internet superhighway for a diligent and efficient person such as yourself sirmadam, to assist with the immediate transfer of $1,000,000,000,000,000,000 USD, a “donation” from His Serene Highness’ grateful populace, from our country.
For your services and hard workings in this matter, you will be rewarded with a 20% share of the funds brought out of our land, and a lifetime supply of our very finest widgets and geegaws.
In order for us to expedite the proceedings, we will need our partner personage in the UK – it could be you, dear sirmadam – we would need the details in full of your bank account, and … a Vannen Bettig watch as we understand these are the best in helping calculate the many time differences that will be involved in our transaction.
Thank you for taking the time to read my plea, sirmadam, and I wish you all health and goodness in your life.
Posted by Count Doodoo on December 17, 2009 at 10:16 pm#bettigblag @theneonhive There’s no time like the present and no present like the time.
Posted by compergrapevine via Twitter on December 18, 2009 at 10:08 am#bettigblag @theneonhive I’ve no time on my hands so I need beautiful time on my wrist.
Posted by beachrambler via Twitter on December 18, 2009 at 11:09 amLots of good responses. Thank you all for your enthusiasm and support. It means the world that you enjoy Vannen as much as we do. Thanks for participating in the contest.
Posted by David Stowe (Vannen Watches) on December 18, 2009 at 9:00 pm