CANCELED : Kickstarter: Holcombe Watch Co - P39 Aviator mechanical

[TheJohnP]

The Holcombe Watch Co, out of Australia, have launched their first Kickstarter campaign for their debut model, the mechanical P39 Aviator.


Early Bird pricing is around $357
Kickstarter pricing is around $393
Regular price will be about $499

Estimated delivery is March 2021









Specs:

[watchpalooza]

Sinn?

[TheJohnP]

I can see that.
Just add $1,000 to make it more like a Sinn

[DogOnTime]

I think it's a good effort to modernize a classic flieger design but the execution falls a bit flat with that 18mm lug width, questionably engraved crown, and the indecisiveness of combining angular dial elements to such a smoothly transitioning case.

Steinhart did it right and assume they'll eventually release a 40 or 42:

[TheJohnP]

To follow up, this Kickstarter campaign was

CANCELED

Funding for this project was canceled by the project creator on Sep 3 2020

[TheJohnP]

An email was sent out with information about the reasons behind the cancellation.

Learnings
Let me start by thanking you for your continued interest and support in our campaign. We have learnt a lot in the month since launch and would like to share some key findings with you:
1) We have identified our initial campaign budget was set too high, effectively discouraging a lot of potential backers
2) The lack of options for our campaign limited the appeal to only those specifically interested in our no-date black dial version

New Campaign
As a result of our insights, we have decided to re-launch our P39 Aviator Kickstarter campaign in order to provide the best timepiece we can offer as well as maximising the chance we get fully funded.

As part of this, we have updated our website and will be sharing our new kickstarter campaign link in the next few weeks. You are welcome to keep your current pledge live and once the new campaign starts we will inform you to change over in order to avoid missing out.

We will provide an early notification of the new campaign to give current backers and newsletter subscribers the chance to pledge before anyone else.


They have also teased some new dial options on their Facebook page.




I'll update this thread when the new campaign goes live.