Alessandro Salvatore has this week taken to
Kickstarter to raise the AU$ 50,000 required to take a range of handcrafted
Swiss watches into production, inspired by the iconic Porsche 356 car and its
designer Ferdinand Porsche.
Each watch is available in four different case and
accent colours and have been designed by race car enthusiast and designer
Alessandro Salvatore based in Melbourne, Australia. The affordable handcrafted
Swiss watches are now available to back via Kickstarter with pledges starting
from approximately US$ 269 or € 215 depending on your location. If all goes well
and the Kickstarter campaign is successful worldwide shipping is expected to
take place during July 2018. Each watch is available in four different case and
accent colours and have been designed by race car enthusiast and designer
Alessandro Salvatore based in Melbourne, Australia.
The movement is a Ronda 5021.D for Ferdi and 5030.D
(10/13 Jewel Swiss quartz movement) respectively. Designer Alessandro explains
that these movements are used in a wide variety of watch brands such as
Luminox, Shinola, Christopher Ward, Swiss Army, a.b.art as well as others which
then retail from US$ 600 up to US$ 2,000 in price. All the watches are hand assembled
and feature “museum grade” sapphire crystal with glare reduction.
