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SUCCESSFUL : Kickstarter: Solas Watches - Starlight with microrotor movement

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SUCCESSFUL : Kickstarter: Solas Watches - Starlight with microrotor movement

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Solas Watches have relaunched their Kickstarter campaign.
They have lowered their funding goal. Not sure I'm seeing anything else too different from their original campaign, other than more pricing tiers.

New link to current Kickstarter:


Super Early Bird pricing for 48 hours is around $387 SOLD OUT
Early Bird pricing for 48 hours is around $411
Next tier pricing is around $434
Fourth tier pricing is around $458
Kickstarter pricing is around $469
Regular price will be about $642

Estimated delivery is May 2021



Information from the original campaign is below:

Solas Watches out of Ireland have launched their first Kickstarter for their debut model, the Starlight featuring a microrotor movement.
This one must have been highly anticipated because the first two tiers sold through fairly quickly.


Super Early Bird pricing is around $394 SOLD OUT
Early Bird pricing is around $417 SOLD OUT
Kickstarter pricing is around $451
Regular price will be about $621

Estimated delivery is January 2021

From the description regarding the brand name:

Sólás is Irish for “solace” – this name was chosen as this project began as a personal recovery from a period of illness in my family. The project allowed me to divert energies and put my focus into something that sought to bring comfort to myself and ultimately turned into an opportunity to share that energy and positivity with a wider audience of watch aficionados.

It is intentional that “solas” (without the Irish fadas) is also relevant to the brand and means “light” – you will find that the model name and future planned models all have a celestial theme to them. The first model which I am introducing below is the Sólás Starlight.


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Difference from prototype to production model:

- The date window frame will be removed.
- The logo font will be amended slightly, it is still the custom font "blzee" but spacing has been changed to better reflect the intended calligraphy effect.

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The watch itself is labelled all in Irish except for the English model name. For non-Irish speakers the text on the dial and caseback translates to:

- Sólás – Solace
- Deartha in Éirinn – designed in Ireland
- Criostal saifír – sapphire crystal
- Ceád eagrán – inaugural edition


Specs:

- Movement: Hangzhou 5000A: 28800bph, ≥42hrs power reserve, and non-hacking
- Case diameter: 38mm
- Height: 9.8mm
- Lug to lug length: 44mm
- Lug width: 20mm
- Dial: aventurine
- Strap: custom, hand-made Horween leather strap by Irish leather craftsman, Turas Leather
- Crystal: sapphire both sides, anti-reflective coating inside
- Water resistance: 50 metres


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Re: PREORDER: Kickstarter: Solas Watches - Starlight with microrotor movement

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I think there was a discussion over on WUS about this one. I applaud the use of a micro-rotor and, on the whole, the design is quite nice. However, the dial font is truly terrible. It really makes the watch look cheap.

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Re: CANCELED : Kickstarter: Solas Watches - Starlight with microrotor movement

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To follow up, this Kickstarter campaign was:

CANCELED

Funding for this project was canceled by the project creator on Jul 27 2020
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Re: CANCELED : Kickstarter: Solas Watches - Starlight with microrotor movement

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There was messaging about the cancellation for backers only.
But appears they will be relaunching the Solas later this fall.

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Re: PREORDER : Kickstarter: Solas Watches - Starlight with microrotor movement

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Solas Watches have relaunched their Kickstarter campaign.
They have lowered their funding goal. Not sure I'm seeing anything else too different from their original campaign, other than more pricing tiers.

New link to current Kickstarter:


Super Early Bird pricing for 48 hours is around $387 SOLD OUT
Early Bird pricing for 48 hours is around $411
Next tier pricing is around $434
Fourth tier pricing is around $458
Kickstarter pricing is around $469
Regular price will be about $642

Estimated delivery is May 2021
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Re: SUCCESSFUL : Kickstarter: Solas Watches - Starlight with microrotor movement

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To follow up, this Kickstarter campaign was:

SUCCESSFUL

200 backers pledged €72,386 to help bring this project to life.
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