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UNSUCCESSFUL : Kickstarter: Viqueria Watch Company - Maestrale GMT 500M Dive Watch

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UNSUCCESSFUL : Kickstarter: Viqueria Watch Company - Maestrale GMT 500M Dive Watch

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As [mention]Nickee[/mention] mentioned below, the Viqueria Maestrale campaign has relaunched with lower pledge tiers and all include both the titanium bracelet and rubber strap.

Here is the link to the new campaign:


Early Bird pricing including titanium bracelet AND rubber strap) is around $636
Kickstarter pricing is around $668
Regular price will be about $1,229

Rest of information below should still be valid:


After their successful campaign for the Levante mechanical chrono, Viqueria Watch Co out of Italy have returned with their latest model, the Swiss made Maestrale GMT 500M dive watch.

Not sure if [mention]Nickee[/mention] still checks in, but hopefully he can provide any answers to those with questions.


Early Bird pricing for "Light Pack" (only rubber strap) is around $768
Late Bird pricing for "Light Pack" is around $804
Regular price will be about $1,113

Early Bird pricing for "Full Pack" (Titanium bracelet AND rubber strap) is around $803
Late Bird pricing for "Full Pack" is around $861
Regular price will be about $1,170


Estimated delivery is October 2020

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The headlines for this watch is it uses the the Soprod C125 GMT movement, hardened Titanium case, Sapphire crystal with 2x AR, Ceramic bezel insert, 500M water resistance, and a superb Super-LumiNova C3 on dials, hands and bezel.

Not specified, but appears there are four colorways:
- BATMAN EDITION - BLACK DIAL - BLUE/BLACK BEZEL
- BLACK EDITION - BLACK DIAL - BLACK BEZEL
- BLUE EDITION - BLUE DIAL - BLUE BEZEL
- GREEN EDITION - GREEN DIAL - GREEN BEZEL


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Specs:

- CASE: Hardened full grade 2 Titanium
- MEASUREMENTS: 42mm Diameter - 20mm Lug width - 14.5mm thickness - 51.6mm lug to lug
- MOVEMENT: Swiss Made SOPROD C125 GMT
- WATER RESISTANCE: 500mt / 1640feet
- CRYSTAL: 2x Antireflective Sapphire Glass
- HANDS/INDEXES: Diamond cut
- LUME: C3 Super-Lumi-Nova
- BEZEL: Uni-directional 120 Clicks with Ceramic and C3 Superlume;
- DIAL: Sunray dials with engraved timezone ring and Superlume
- STRAP: Rubber by Cinturini Bonetto - Made in Italy
- BRACELET: Titanium bracelet with Stainless Steel diving extension clasp
- CROWN: Screw Down Crown
- CASEBACK: Sapphire transparent caseback
- WEIGHT: 135gr. with Titanium bracelet
- BOX: Waterproof, dustproof, cushproof IP67 diving box - Made in Italy.
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Re: CANCELED : Kickstarter: Viqueria Watch Company - Maestrale GMT 500M Dive Watcch

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To quickly follow up, this Kickstarter campaign was:

CANCELED

Funding for this project was canceled by the project creator on Mar 15 2020


Update from project creator:

Perseverance is better than defeat!

March 15, 2020
One Japanese quote says "Nanakorobi Yaoki" 七転び八起き that literally means "Fall down seven times and stand up eight". This means that the perseverance is better than defeat.

As soon as we have seen that the KS campaign wasn't going as we expected, we immediately speak with our Swiss manufacturer and suppliers to make a new deal that allow us to come back stronger and more competitive. We want to manufacture the Maestrale!

Thanks to the good relationships with them, we got a lower Minimum Order Quantity (-30%) and a price review on some parts (without losing on quality and maintaining the same specs).

So, we are closing this campaign and in the next days we will set up a new Kickstarter campaign with the following changes:

- A lower funding target;
- A lower reward price of €590/$653 (actual is €720/$797).

We'll try to be online again on Saturday 21 March at 15.00GMT.

We hope that this changes could help us to reach the target and start with the production of the Maestrale!!!

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Re: CANCELED : Kickstarter: Viqueria Watch Company - Maestrale GMT 500M Dive Watcch

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If you have any question I'm here!
We are planning to relaunch the campaign this Saturday (21 March at 15.00gmt) with a lower funding target and a lower price (590€/665$ with both titanium bracelet and rubber)!
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Re: CANCELED : Kickstarter: Viqueria Watch Company - Maestrale GMT 500M Dive Watcch

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Nickee wrote: Mon Mar 16, 2020 5:53 pm If you have any question I'm here!
We are planning to relaunch the campaign this Saturday (21 March at 15.00gmt) with a lower funding target and a lower price (590€/665$ with both titanium bracelet and rubber)!

Thanks for the heads up [mention]Nickee[/mention]
I have updated the original post with the new link to the updated campaign.
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Re: PREORDER : Kickstarter: Viqueria Watch Company - Maestrale GMT 500M Dive Watch

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Thanks!
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Re: UNSUCCESSFUL : Kickstarter: Viqueria Watch Company - Maestrale GMT 500M Dive Watch

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To follow up, the updated Kickstarter campaign was

UNSUCCESSFUL

The project's funding goal was not reached on Sun, April 12 2020 10:59 AM EDT
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Re: UNSUCCESSFUL : Kickstarter: Viqueria Watch Company - Maestrale GMT 500M Dive Watch

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For anyone still interested, you can preorder directly from Viqueria through partial payment.
Here's their update from the campaign:

Dear, at first we would like to say thanks to everyone supported us during the Maestrale campaign.

We think that the hard times we are facing greatly influenced the results of the campaign, so to try to go anyway in production we would like to offer to everyone this preorder solution through our website:

First Step - €250/$274 - By 30th April If we collect enough preorders (approx 60) we will jump to the Second Step. In the opposite case we will refund you of the sum paid.
Second Step - €340/$372 - By 31st May
Payment options: PayPal or Bank Transfer Shipment: Depends on your country. To be paid in on top of the second step.

Please write us an email to info@viqueriawatches.com or a message on Facebook to count you in. So we could send in the next days the landing page of the Maestrale preorder!

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