Unboxing Colorado Watch Co. GCT 85% USA made plus some EDC share

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Colorado Watch Co (Exclusive early look at prototype)​

Random Rob
Sep 26, 2023

Rough prototypes shown, check out the renderings at the end


https://vorticwatches.com/pages/colorado-watch-company

https://www.kickstarter.com/project...tches-built-in-the-usa-colorado-watch-company

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Our First Two Watches​

Five years in the making, the Field Watch and The GCT watch represent the ideas that we (Tyler & R.T.) have been dreaming of creating. We've spent our entire watchmaking careers, up to this point, building watches using antique pocket watch movements for Vortic and celebrating the companies that came before us. That's why we are so excited to start our own legacy in the American watchmaking industry by building watches from the ground up.

Now that we can choose the movement, we're using smaller, fully modern automatic movements. And, for the first time in many years, we're able to purchase movements assembled in the United States. The gentlemen at Fine Timepiece Solutions (FTS) in Fountain Hills, Arizona, have designed their own caliber and invested in the clean room and equipment necessary to assemble movements here. On top of that, they're training unskilled workers to build and service watches. FTS is the perfect movement partner for Colorado Watch Company because they focus on quality, value, and scalability. They call their new movement the "Americhron."

We felt strongly about making the dial in the US but found finding someone who could do it challenging. That's why we decided to do it ourselves. Colorado Watch Company dials are milled from steel billet here in Fort Collins, and we just imported a high-end CNC pad printer from Switzerland so that we can do everything here.

Something we have experience in is case making. After years of practice, we are very proud of the 40mm Field Watch case and 42mm GCT watch cases. Both are CNC milled from 316L stainless steel billet here in the Colorado factory. CNC machining is not "the easy" or "the cheap" way to do it, but it allows us to make extremely accurate parts and have complete control over the design of our products.

We chose to make an exhibition caseback for our watches to show off the mechanical movement. We also recessed the caseback flush with the case, so it wears comfortably and is as thin as possible.
 
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I was going to go in on the GCT, but the price held me back.
I need to see some reviews first, I’m not bold enough with almost $1,300.00 to be one of the first. Of all the Kickstarter watches I got, only one was good enough to not regret.
I hope the reviews are good, because I can see myself getting one. I like what they are doing.
 
This guy is trying just a little bit too hard to sell Kickstarter in the first video. Most know the platform. Seven billion sounds nice for the creators and Kickstarter getting their cut, but does little for the peace of mind of backers. If KS is so successful they should come up with insurance for backers. Instead, they tell folks oh well, you are not buying something and your pledge is not guaranteed and is a donation.

Sep 20, 2023

What is Kickstarter & how will we use it to LAUNCH the Colorado Watch Company? | Custer and Wolfe.​

 

:banghead: Choose your Dial Option (FREE)

Nothing is "Free" .. The pledge is money paid

(Free of charge; without expense)

 
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