Swiss watchmaker Swatch apologized and pulled an advertisement on Saturday that Chinese audiences called offensive.In both an Instagram post and a post on Weibo, the Chinese social media site, the watch company announced it had removed an ad featuring an Asian model making an allegedly racist gesture and apologized to consumers it had offended."We have taken note of the recent concerns regarding the portrayal of a model in images for the Swatch ESSENTIALS Collection. We treat this matter with the utmost importance and have immediately removed all related materials worldwide," the post read.AME...
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