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Crowdfunding A Watch – Is It Worth It?
In this blog, the final installment in our interview with Crystal Clear Watchmaking Luc takes us back to do a bit of a forensic investigation
12. October 2021
In this blog, the final installment in our interview with Crystal Clear Watchmaking Luc takes us back to do a bit of a forensic investigation
And We Thought Inventing A Watch Was Hard The last few weeks have been very beneficial. There have been a couple of big moments where
SNGLRTY Prototypes – Where Are They? And Oversized Dates Last time Luc from Crystal Clear Watchmamking was taking us through how he would create a
Watch Development – There is always a story The story of developing a watch would not strike anyone as a compelling story. Yet, as I
The Date Complication – An Unnecessary Yet Expensive Function? The date complication was the ideal companion for the first execution of SNGLRTY. Time is presented
One Year In And How Are We Doing? One year in and Daniel and I are still writing our blog. When we set out, starting
An Ugly SNGLRTY Watch – Is That Possible? It is not a question either Daniel or I had ever been asked before, “What happens if
What Are We Up To? A few weeks ago, Daniel and I shared our thoughts on what #SeeTimeDifferently meant to us, how we perceive this
What is a watch movement? It seems a very simple question with what should be a very simple answer but it has caused some debate
We left the first installment with Luc from the Crystal Clear Watchmaking podcast, having just discussed developing a new watch complication. It was certainly not
The hour ring is the largest surface area on the SNGLRTY watch face so sets the tone for the rest of your design.
The OHI movements, or One Hand Indication, are unique to SNGLRTY. During the development phase of the watches Daniel and Steve used this moniker before naming it SNGLRTY. There are two distinctive movements to choose from, OHI-2 and OHI-4.
The OHI-4 movement is built on the Decorated and Fully Adjusted SW-300 tractor movement from Sellita. On top of the tractor movement the SNGLRTY complication plate is assembled and incorporates the “reverse minute gearbox” that is available exclusively from SNGLRTY. Depending on your selection, the complication plate will also relocate the date wheel from the top of the tractor movement to the top of the complication plate. Relocating it in this manner increases the size of the date disc and moves it closer to the top of the watch face improving its readability considerably.
The OHI-2 movement is the same as the OHI-4 movement except that it is built on a standard execution Sellita SW-200 movement.
Finally, depending on the movement you select the watch case will have a different profile as the OHI-4 movement is thinner than the OHI-2 movement. The key differences are that the case for the OHI-4 movement has a double domed crystal and a flat caseback. The OHI-2 case has a flat crystal and a curved caseback. All the details are in the product page.