Colorado Watch Company Kickstarter: Final Update | Custer and Wolfe - Building a Watch Company
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- čas přidán 7. 06. 2024
- Welcome to Custer and Wolfe Episode 12:
Colorado Watch Company is a sister brand to Vortic Watch Company, and we'll be making NEW watches right here in Fort Collins, Colorado. Don't worry. Vortic Watch Company will always make truly American-made wristwatches using antique American pocket watches, but since we can only make a few hundred watches each year, we're releasing a whole separate brand (same building) in order to make modern automatic wristwatches!
Our new Colorado Watch Company wristwatches will be smaller (40mm and 42mm), and they'll feature a modern automatic movement assembled by FTS in Fountain Hills, Arizona. Prototypes are shown in this video with a different brand, and they are ROUGH and initial prototypes, so please watch the video for the context and let us know what you think after you see the final prototypes upon our launch on the 26th.
00:00 - Intro
00:15 - Kickstarter Update: Overview
00:47 - Merch! Hats and T-Shirts available now!
01:18 - The Current State of Kickstarter
01:48 - Watch Hands for GCT and Field
02:12 - The Field Watch hands were WAY darker than we thought...
02:53 - ...But actually that's a GOOD thing!
03:46 - Watch Hands: the Lumed GCT hands arrived!
04:10 - Why are the numerals on the GCT that color?
05:26 - Radium Girls
05:58 - Let's Talk Straps
07:26 - Rubber Straps?
08:28 - It'll cost HOW MUCH!?
08:54 - Once the mold is made...
09:32 - What straps will come with the watches?
10:05 - About that 12 o'clock crown...
11:11 - ALL Watches come with rubber straps, Cordura is an Add-on...
11:57 - Let's talk DIALS
12:02 - The GCT dial - Close Up
12:57 - Someone hated our Field Dial... =(
13:23 - But that's fine, because...
13:39 - Our Experimental Dials
13:58 - Renders of the final Field dials
14:46 - Exclusive! See the Second Field Dial HERE first!
15:29 - A render of the Second Final Field Dial
16:01 - Personally we LOVE our red logo
16:34 - So we bought a pad printer, but... it's really hard to use!
17:40 - Sounds crazy but it's hard to paint things white!
18:23 - Electrophoretic what now?
19:17 - Why are we using E-Coating?
20:00 - A MAJOR takeaway from the Kickstarter is...
21:27 - We're improving our case backs even more
21:46 - 2023 Militart Edition Sneak Peek
23:32 - Wrap up of current state, what's next?
23:48 - Our watches passed greater than 100m of water resistance
24:59 - We prototype on the 5-Axis, but how will we handle production?
26:34 - What happens when the Kickstarter campaign ends?
28:05 - When will we begin production?
29:20 - What happens on the FINAL DAY?
30:16 - When can you expect to see your watches?
30:40 - The Final Wrap Up
31:47 - Don't forget to buy merch?
32:10 - Outro
Like this content? Check out our:
‣ Current inventory of one-of-a-kind watches: vorticwatches.com/watches
‣ Military Edition watch (available 11/11 each year): vorticwatches.com/military
‣ Heirloom pocket watch conversions: vorticwatches.com/convert
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‣ Facebook page: / vorticwatches
‣ Twitter feed: / vorticwatches
Follow along as we restore vintage pocket watch movements and give them new life with Vortic Watch Co., and as we build a brand new watch company from scratch, focused on making high-quality American-machined watches.
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Looking forward to seeing your watches.😊
Thanks for the support! 😊
Great update, really glad to see a standard rubber strap for the GCT instead of the fitted - it would have hidden that great case finishing and I think the case will look more contiguous. Great attention to detail, guys!
We appreciate that! Thanks for following along, we really appreciate the kind words! 🙌
Really cool dial options for the Field! Can’t wait to see them in person!
Thanks, we think so as well. It's going to be great!
Congratulations on you kickstarter success! Had my tour last week and was really impressed with your setup!
Thank you, Robert! What a pleasure to have you in shop, thanks for coming to see where it all happens!
I live in Colorado, and love watches. I was hoping that there would be a model that I liked. You didn’t quite hit one I like this time, but I intend to keep an eye on your brand.
Thanks for sticking around and if you'd ever like to come by for a tour we'd love to show you what we do!
I would have enjoyed matte black hands on that white dial