Kickstarter watches

rcs914

From what I can tell there are two distinct groups of these types of watches - those whom are basically doing a BS catalog order off of the aforementioned Alibaba or DH gate, and those whom are really designing their own dials, cases, etc. Not sure how many of those there are on Kickstarter, vs some of the microbrands. There have been some laughably bad KS campaigns though.

I wouldn't just limit your looking at Swiss made though - the Seiko NH35 is decent if entry level, and the Seiko 6R15 and Miyota 9015 movements are supposed to be quite good and reliable. I'd probably rather have and one of those of those three than a Selitta SW200.

No.15

Hopefully not to derail this thread to much but what's the beef with the sw200? Just curious.

Walrus

I purchased numerous playing cards as well for card tricks. Never got burned. Ordered one watch still waiting to see how it plays out.

Walrus

Dude congrats that’s wild. I guess you released or made it after my playing card collection got out of hand. I did see your deck reviewed (on the positive) on a magic trick forum I’m on. Sorry didn’t mean to run this off topic but you deserve a big congrats and great art work.

mjb

I bought one KS watch, I figured a nice beater/work in the yard watch would be OK, it had to be automatic, it had to have a non-Chinese movement, and it had to be less than 40mm. IIRC it was 38mm, a few hundred bucks, and turned out to be very well made and fairly accurate with a Miyota movement. Production was delayed d/t covid and the designer was in the UK and the engineer was in Canada and of course the watch was made in "Asia", so it took quite a while to actually happen. The designer was some chap who has a youtube channel and a good following, so I figured that my risk was low.

As it turned out, I didn't really care for the watch, but I was able to sell it on another forum for a few dollars more than I paid for it, so it was a win-win.

I've owned a few other microbrands, most were disappointing. The only one I still have, and I like it a lot and get a lot of compliments on it, is my Vaer automatic. Specifically this one. I like that most of it is made and assembled in the USA, plus it's a good price point and the quality so far has been excellent. They make their own quartz movements, they also do a solar thing and have started making more and more automatics.

rcs914

From what I can tell there are two distinct groups of these types of watches - those whom are basically doing a BS catalog order off of the aforementioned Alibaba or DH gate, and those whom are really designing their own dials, cases, etc. Not sure how many of those there are on Kickstarter, vs some of the microbrands. There have been some laughably bad KS campaigns though.