Kickstarter and Indiegogo are the most popular platform for inventors or startups to launch their innovative products out to the world and to gauge their real selling potential. You always can buy something which you never seen before in the market.
When we specify the best crowdfouding watches, many mircro brand watches are incubated from this two platforms, such as Baltic, MVMT and Filippo Loreti.
Now let us have a look at the most funded watches and hope these campaigns can inspire you to start your own watch brand, even though 2020 is an unusual year due to corona virus. Just keep hope!
1.Xeric NASA Watch
Goal: US$10,000
Founded: US$5,405,412
Backers: 17974
These collection of space-inspired watches are created to pay tribute to the Apollo 11 mission and the day that Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon – July 20, 1969.
Xeric is deconstructing the traditions of watch designs and push the boundaries of how to display time on a mechanical watch.
2. Filippo Loreti Venice Watches
Goal: €20,000
Founded: €4,809,548
Backers: 18550
Italy’s age old traditions of world-class craftsmanship are a cornerstone for all that Filippo Loreti created – the rich Italian culture and history is the inspiration for each design.
Filippo Loreti watches are made from 316L stainless steel, offering high strength, durability and long-lasting visual appearance. The way how case is designed you can be sure that the timepiece will fit comfortably on wrists of all sizes, both men’s and women’s.
3. Filippo Loreti Renaissance Watches
Goal: €20,000
Founded: € 3,534,663
Backers: 16077
4. Filippo Loreti Florance Watch
Goal: €25,000
Founded: €926,960
Backers: 6,090
Well you have to say Filippo Loreti team is good at crowdfunding.
5. CIGA Design Mechanical Titanium Watch
Founded: $1,631,728
Backers: 7,000
Containing the precise mechanics is a shell of Grade 2 Titanium, one of the strongest and most distinctive metals. It has unparalleled corrosion resistance and is 40% stronger and 30% lighter than stainless steel—the current standard for watchmakers.
The Seagull AAA automatic self-winding mechanics keeps the watch charged without the need of batteries. The storing energy for up to 40 hours. No manual winding required!
6. YEMA Dive Watch
Goal: €200,000
Founded: €938,968
Backers: 1,222
YEMA reinvents this historic tool-watch inspired from its heritage and +70 years experience designing accurate and reliable diving instruments. This unique bronze edition will develop a natural patina that will make each watch truly one of a kind.
7. LinjerWatches
Goal: 15,000
Founded: $965,758
Backers: 4,771
Linjer creates minimalist, high quality affordable watch brands for women and men.
They were fed up with choosing between fast-fashion and overpriced luxury brands…designed their own products, replicated the supply chain of luxury brands, and began selling their products online in 2014.
Their watches inspiration from Roman’s native Oslo (our name “Linjer” means “lines” in Norwegian), and endeavor to make products that stand the test of time both in their design and their quality.
8. Kraken Titanium Watches
Founded: $576277
Backers: 1,475
Hamtun was founded by a couple of friends back in 2015. Lead by co-founder and designer Ross Davis, the aim was to create the watches that we wanted to own but, as family men with normal jobs, couldn’t afford. By cutting out all of the extra layers of bureaucracy and by working to sensible margins, they set out to make high quality watches for their clients.
9. BALTIC Watches
Goal: €65000
Founded: €514,806
Backers: 1,044
Baltic is a watch company connoisseurs with a passion for traditional craftsmanship. They believe the most timeless and desirable watches are often the simplest however, it seems many modern watch brands add unnecessary complexity to their designs.
For this reason we decided to create BALTIC. They want to focus on a more authentic approach, bringing together the purest watchmaking techniques to create a vintage-inspired timepiece for their clients.
They truly think the importance to act locally. This is why the watches are assembled by hand in France, near Besançon, by professional and experienced watchmakers which use their expertise to assemble, adjust and test every BALTIC mechanical watch.
10. Nordgreen Watch
Goal: $15,000
Founded: $428,418
Backers: 2,890
The Nordgreen take on the Chronograph is a celebration of the Danish tradition of Science for Humanity, a concept established to create positive change for humankind and nature, thus celebrating the sustainable future that we dream of.
The clean space around the dial is a reflection of the environment that we want to live in, while the third hand stopwatch (Chrono second hand), which has a red tip inspired by windmills, is a reminder of the bond between Nordgreen and the sustainability of its motherland.
The watch comes in three dial colors – blue, black, and white – and three case colors – gun metal, silver and rose gold.
11. MVMT Watches
Founded: $291307 USD
Backers: 3864
MVMT team sought out to create MVMT because of their passion for watches and desire to cut out the brand inflation and retail markup of popular name brands.
Their niche: Got frustrated paying hundreds of dollars for name brand watches, knowing they only cost a fraction of the price to make.
MVMT has spent several years working with leading customer watch manufacturer to come up with an affordable, stylish looking watch collection that they know everyone will love.
When designing this watch collection, they made sure of three details:
- A minimalist look that could be worn in a casual or professional setting.
- The highest quality materials.
- Offering the watches at a price less than half of their competitor’s cost