The first 365(ish) days
It’s high time I put fingers to keyboard and got writing again. Believe it or not but its been almost 15 months since we launched our website and started showing off our first creation. We’ve gone from an idea and a design on a computer, successful crowdfunding, full production and finally delivery. Its been a packed few months and it's only the beginning.
The last 15 months has seen us building relationships with reviewers, customers and enthusiasts across the UK, US, Germany, Austria, Norway, Singapore, South Korea, Ireland, France, Spain, Portugal and Brazil. To two guys from lowly inner-city Wolverhampton, it’s amazing knowing that people from all over the world have seen, liked and bought one (or occasionally both versions) of our watches. What’s even more amazing is getting early design feedback from Las Vegas to Japan, with pledges to order for our next one just based on the illustrations we’ve released.
Which brings me neatly to the next of our designs, we’re calling it Giri Ventiquattro and it’ll be our first fully automatic mechanical watch. Giri Ventiquattro is an important milestone for us. It’s our first mechanical watch obviously, but with JOTM under our belt and selling, we felt a little more confident and decided to have custom tooling and moulds for the hands, case and caseback made to bring this watch to life. Having the tooling and moulds does mean we’ll have them available for our use for other designs we create though, so we’re seeing it as investing for the future. I’ll talk more about the Giri Ventiquattro and its design in a follow-up blog.
