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Those artifacts look more from a badly cropped photo than a render, so I would venture a guess that was a real watch.
by psykovsky 11y ago
Those artifacts look more from a badly cropped photo than a render, so I would venture a guess that was a real watch.
- mkaroumi 11y agoThe watch case design is a render and the band is a photo of real bands. But as I said before, the watches are under production right now, finished very soon. So we're not able to have any real photos of the watch yet :)
- grhmc 11y agoGot it. A bit surprising you didn't get any manufacturing samples, but cool.
- mkaroumi 11y agoI could, but that would cost $300 for that sample. I got a sample of another watch to feel the quality. And I can tell you - it felt good!
- ethbro 11y agoOut of interest, strongly assuming that you've contracted manufacture to a foreign country from the price point (and assuming your profit in there), could you speak at all about how your contract goes with regards to quality control? What happens if what you get doesn't match what you're expecting, without an approved sample? Also, any ballpark on the setup? Or is it per-unit? (Feel free to demure if you don't want to share, just curious. You see fewer physical than virtual products!)
- mkaroumi 11y agoGreat questions. I can't answer as detailed as I would like to do. But, I can't be 100% sure that these watches will be of the same quality, but I'm 99% sure. I've dealed with these manufacturers for a while and we have a tight partnership. I don't want to misinterpret and give you wrong info, so what do you mean with ballpark? Not sure what you mean :)
- ethbro 11y agoUnderstand there are contractual (and business!) limitations to what can be said, so thanks for any answers. :) By ballpark, I meant could you give round numbers (ie number of figures) on the up-front investment to get something like this off the ground? Or whether it's a back end per-item partnership? Also, kudos to you and best of luck. It is a nice design, and you're right -- the watch community is under-served by reasonably priced but simple designs. Some of Seiko, Citizen, Orient, and especially Skagen's stuff is nice, but it's amazing how terrible other pieces are. Some of my favorites are still vintage from the 60s!
- mkaroumi 11y agoGlad to hear that from you. I'm really sorry, I can't tell you how much I invested but I can tell you that it was for the first batch and not per-item charging. So you kinda need to invest a lot of money to start something like this - if you want to create great quality products :) Vintages from the 60s are sooo amazing. We were actually inspired from some vintage watches (and modern watches) :)
- psykovsky 11y agoOOPS... it wasn't a real watch...