SUCCESSFUL : Kickstarter: Kingsbury Watch Co - Varsity Sport automatic

[TheJohnP]

Kingsbury Watch Co, out of Toronto, have launched their latest model on Kickstarter, the Varsity Sport automatic.
This is their seventh campaign and the previous six have fully funded.


Kickstarter pricing for a single watch is around $165
Kickstarter pricing for all four versions is around $629
No word on regular MSRP pricing.

Estimated delivery is October 2020

The Varsity Sport is being offered in 4 color variations and they are only producing 50 units of each, with only 200 Varsity Sports being made.
Each watch comes with three straps included:




















Specs:

- 41mm Stainless Steel Case (48mm lug to lug)
- Seiko Epson YN77A Automatic Movement
- 24 Jewels with Hacking
- Scratch Resistant Sapphire Crystal
- Japanese Luminova on Hands & Hour Markings
- Screw-Down Crown
- Water Resistance of 5ATM / 50M / 160FT
- Comes With 3 Watch Straps - leather rally strap, vintage rally strap, and a NATO strap.

[watchpalooza]

What do we know about the Seiko Epson YN77A Automatic Movement?

[TheJohnP]

First I think I've run across a mention of that one.

[TheJohnP]

What do we know about the Seiko Epson YN77A Automatic Movement?

Seems the only thing I can find about it. Odd.
Though does explain the crown position.


http://online.anyflip.com/zfza/lbem/fil ... age51.html

[MoT]

Really digging that yellow!

[qrocks]

seems like a nice package for $165.

[baldrick]

For anyone on the fence, I backed one of their previous campaigns - the Dark Water - and was happy with the end result.

Excellent project management and communication throughout and, from memory, they chucked in some extra straps for free.

The watch itself is solid - some extremely minor quibbles but nothing of note, especially at these sort of prices - and looks a lot nicer than what I paid for it.

I'd back another Kingsbury project without hesitation.

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[watchpalooza]

For anyone on the fence, I backed one of their previous campaigns - the Dark Water - and was happy with the end result.

Excellent project management and communication throughout and, from memory, they chucked in some extra straps for free.

The watch itself is solid - some extremely minor quibbles but nothing of note, especially at these sort of prices - and looks a lot nicer than what I paid for it.

I'd back another Kingsbury project without hesitation.

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I second everything here. For the money these are great value.

[DogOnTime]

This one looks pretty nice, even from me.
Wish it had something to mark the 6 but for this price and specs, it's real nice.

As for the movement, pretty certain the Y-XXXX movement calibres are based off of Orient watches. Extremely difficult to find information on them but considering Seiko has no automatic movements with a small-second subdial and Orient does, this makes sense. They are not made by Time Module (SII) but Seiko-Epson themselves (a separate entity derived from Seiko).

[tjcdas]

Seems like a catalog watch with very nice custom dials.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/833521089/ ... tyle-watch


http://www.thetimebum.com/2020/05/langd ... matic.html

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[TheJohnP]

Seems like a catalog watch with very nice custom dials.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/833521089/ ... tyle-watch


http://www.thetimebum.com/2020/05/langd ... matic.html

il_794xN.2391383434_eqex.jpg

There was a post about the Langdon.
viewtopic.php?f=25&t=1748&p=60369&hilit=Langdon#p60369

If anyone is expecting non catalog parts in a >$200 automatic, they are being foolish.

The Kingsbury also splurged for a Sapphire crystal

[TheJohnP]

To follow up, this Kickstarter campaign was:

SUCCESSFUL

135 backers pledged CA$ 33,010 to help bring this project to life.