SUCCESSFUL: Kickstarter: Beaufort Aerotimer

[pgcity]

Kickstarter campaign will go live on the 20th of August at 2pm (Eastern Time). They're based out of New Zealand and looks to be their first campaign. Link to website here: https://beaufort-watches.com/

Campaign is LIVE, here's the link to preorder:

CASE
CASE MEASUREMENTS
40mm Diameter, 48.5mm lug to lug, 11.45mm Thickness, 22mm lug width

CASE MATERIAL
316L Stainless Steel

CASE BACK
Sapphire Crystal Exhibition Display

FRONT CRYSTAL
Single-domed sapphire with anti-reflective coating

FEATURES
WATER RESISTANCE
10ATM/100 Meters

LUME
C1 Super-Luminova

CROWN
Push/Pull

DIAL COLOURS
Mint, Salmon, Navy Gilt, Arctic White

STRAP MATERIAL
Italian full-grain leather with deployment clasp

MOVEMENT
ENGINE
Automatic Swiss Made Sellita SW200-1

PRECISION
+/- 12 Seconds per day

VIBRATIONS
28,800 Bph, 4hz

JEWELS
26

POWER RESERVE
38 hours

FUNCTIONS
Date, hours, minutes, seconds, hacking, self-winding, hand-winding

Prices are in New Zealand Dollars

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[pgcity]

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[yinzburgher]

California dials don't do all that much for me but I do like 6 o'clock dates and crosshair dials. I just looked up the exchange rate for NZD to USD. At this time the retail price of $770 NZD = $495 USD and the early bird price of $501 NZD = $322 USD.

[pgcity]

California dials don't do all that much for me but I do like 6 o'clock dates and crosshair dials. I just looked up the exchange rate for NZD to USD. At this time the retail price of $770 NZD = $495 USD and the early bird price of $501 NZD = $322 USD.

Nice to see mint/pastel blue and salmon dials though. wish more brands did them.

[TheJohnP]

I like the colors.
I like the applied numerals.
I hate that the California dial is the only option.

[watchpalooza]

I like the colors.
I like the applied numerals.
I hate that the California dial is the only option.

+1

[Boourns]

Make it all arabic numbers and the mint/stainless steel is very close to shut up and take my money. Too bad.

[TheJohnP]

California dials don't do all that much for me but I do like 6 o'clock dates and crosshair dials. I just looked up the exchange rate for NZD to USD. At this time the retail price of $770 NZD = $495 USD and the early bird price of $501 NZD = $322 USD.

As reported, pricing is as follows:

Super Early Bird pricing is about $322
Late Early Bird pricing is about $346
Regular price will be roughly $495

Estimated delivery is February 2020

[Perdendosi]

I preordered. On the review from Patrick at Take Time, he noticed that when he first looked at the watch, he didn't even realize it was a Cali dial. I kinda agree with him. There's a proportionality and restraint here-- a Cali dial if IWC were to make one--that I really dig. Plus salmon and pastel blue.
(I like the dark blue gilt the best, but the white date wheel kills that one for me.)

I never find myself wear pilot or field watches; they seem too casual for my workday, and one the weekends I want something both a little wilder and a little more rugged, so I end up with divers. But I can see myself wearing this in all sorts of situations. Maybe I'll back out at the last minute, but it's just too cool not to jump on (especially since the late-early bird price was just about to fill up!)

[Perdendosi]

... And then I cancelled. It's not going to get worn.

But the good news is there are still some late-early bird spots. And if they make $100K in sales, they're going to upgrade the lume to bgw9!

[yinzburgher]

Oops. Nothing to see here.

[TheJohnP]

20% off select watches at Timex.com w/ code SAVE20. 6% CB from RetailMeNot.

Wrong thread there yinz!

[yinzburgher]

Ha! Thanks. I was trying to figure out where my post went!

[TheJohnP]

To follow up, this Kickstarter campaign was:

SUCCESSFUL

185 backers pledged NZ$ 109,048 to help bring this project to life.



Direct website preorders will be available in early October - 20% OFF future RRP of $770NZD (roughly $485)

https://beaufort-watches.com/watches