New upcoming Kickstarter project

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Post by anonymous-10 » February 27th 2020, 8:01am

You should buy a camera.
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Re: New upcoming Kickstarter project

Post by biglove » February 27th 2020, 12:18pm

Are those dials not aligned in the cases?

Jeebus, utter shite shot with a even shittier camera.
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Post by MKTheVintageBloke » February 27th 2020, 5:26pm

The concept of that dial isn't bad, but the finishing around the subdials concerns me. The printed scales seem a wee bit fuzzy. And either it's the pics, or the edges of the subdials look like they're oozing onto the main part. Or as if the background's oozing into them. Well, at least that's the best way of putting it. The design is acceptable, but at least going by these pics, I find the quality wanting, at best.
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Re: New upcoming Kickstarter project

Post by bbattle » February 28th 2020, 6:24pm

MKTheVintageBloke wrote: ↑
February 27th 2020, 5:26pm
 The concept of that dial isn't bad, but the finishing around the subdials concerns me. The printed scales seem a wee bit fuzzy. And either it's the pics, or the edges of the subdials look like they're oozing onto the main part. Or as if the background's oozing into them. Well, at least that's the best way of putting it. The design is acceptable, but at least going by these pics, I find the quality wanting, at best.
Yes, the paint on the subdials and their hands is rather heavy and it makes the edges soft and not well defined. The effect cheapens the design. My Undone chronograph has much sharper subdials.
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Re: New upcoming Kickstarter project

Post by biglove » March 5th 2020, 7:34pm

Dust spec on the hour hand, bezel not aligning at 12, chrono hand doesn’t reset to 12. Bezel insert sits too high, bezel paint looks horrific.

Not promising.
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Post by MKTheVintageBloke » March 5th 2020, 7:43pm

As I've said before, the concept wasn't bad in itself. But I also have to agree with BL - the finishing is really quite dreadful.

Sorry, but even my Sea-Gull 1963, ever the budget thing, hecho en Cathay just like most of this watch, is quite a few steps above that. If the 1963 was to be a Chinese dish, it would be a good duck Peking. This? A coronavirus-infested bat soup - at best.
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Re: New upcoming Kickstarter project

Post by bbattle » March 6th 2020, 4:54am

These guys really know their watches; pay attention to what advice they offer.

Every tiny detail on a watch matters, Echo. The indices are not spaced evenly; the hour markers are a bit crooked and not evenly set between the minute markers on either side. The 8 o'clock and 11 o'clock indices look bad; qc should have rejected those. If a prototype looks that sloppy, production units will be even worse.

I would be looking at other manufacturers; your prototypes are not ready. Not by a long shot.
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Re: New upcoming Kickstarter project

Post by TemerityB » June 26th 2021, 3:55pm

This is absolutely amazing. I don't understand anything about this. Three years later?

I mean, best of luck, but given what we've been offered to see, I can't imagine a serious watch buyer or collector out there that would be impressed. Gotta be honest.
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Re: New upcoming Kickstarter project

Post by jason_recliner » June 26th 2021, 7:09pm

biglove wrote: ↑
March 5th 2020, 7:34pm
 Dust spec on the hour hand, bezel not aligning at 12, chrono hand doesn’t reset to 12. Bezel insert sits too high, bezel paint looks horrific.
But apart from that it's pretty good.

This thread is awesome. The wartche literally looks like every catalogue 7750 out there. Obviously if this was a real project you could have bought 150 from Ali baba 3 years ago. Well played sir - thanks for the chuckles!
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