Has anybody here gone for the Era Timepiece Tourbillion currently on Kickstarter. If so, any thoughts? How good can this watch be? More importantly, how are they able to achieve this price? https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/937896050/era-timepieces-certified-millionaire-watches-under
I only have a few hard and fast rules in life. One of them is to stay far away from hardware / manufacturing projects on Kickstarter.
Oh god these jokers again... They have about 5 different projects out there, they are using a cheap Chinese movement. They sell the exact same watch under a different brand for like $400 bucks. Its not an expensive movement, cheap Chinese "tourbilions" have been on the market for about 5 years now. At that price you would expect at least some AR on the crystal....
Oh god they updated.... The quotes from ABTW and Hod and everyone else is not talking about them.... The pictures are stolen from other websites of the watchmakers working. Thier "tourbillon" is not really a tourbillon
If I'm not mistaken, that's a $20 Chinese Hangzhou HZ3360A movement in that $1,000 watch. Cool-looking movement, but I don't believe the case and assembly work is worth $980.
That explains a lot. Still surprised how much they've managed to raise. Sucks that they are taking advantage of people like that.
Wow, just spent some time scrolling through the site. It reads more like a conspiracy blog than a product page.
That copy on the Kickstarter page has to be the most bald-faced load of camel crap I've read in ages. Truly atrocious. The only thing I can give them any credit on is that they acknowledge that the movement is a Hangzhou and made in China in the comments. But that flies COMPLETELY in the face of this choice line from their ridiculous blather: "More importantly after years of networking and forming strategic partnerships: We got to know the same master watchmakers who build tourbillons for the luxury brand cartel. By partnering with these same master watchmakers, we broke through the cartel wall." This is unmitigated BS. It's a travesty that this kind of straight up lying manages to get them over a quarter million for their project - so far!
