On October 1st, AstroMYO launched its Kickstarter campaign for its MK2 kit. The French company has set a goal of 8 500€ to launch the manufacturing of the first kits. The MK2 kit is a kit designed to allow everyone to build their own watch. Inspired by the 1963 Seagull, this watch has several interesting complications: the date calendar and the chronograph. Featuring a panda dial, a domed glass and gold hands, the watch has a vintage look that is totally assumed.
But before you can show off this watch, you’ll have to build it. This is the interest of the kit and the will of AstroMYO’s founders: we value and look much more often at an object we have built and assembled than at one we have just bought.
Each step is carefully detailed by videos, allowing everyone to easily do the assembly. The MK2 Kit has been designed to be accessible to most people and achievable with a minimum of skills. Just take the components and tools included in the kit and focus on making a great watch in less than an hour.
So every time you look at the time, you can admire the result of your work and feel a great sense of pride. The red hand, which is only used for timing, will remind you how suspended in time you were during the assembly, but also that every second is precious and that you should cherish the moment.
The MK2 Kit watch is meant to be wearable on a daily basis, by everyone and resistant to the passage of time thanks to its genuine leather strap, 38mm 316L stainless steel case and Miyota 0S21 movement.
The Kickstarter edition of the MK2 kit will be a special edition: limited and numbered! The numbers are assigned in order of contribution. Contributors will have the exclusivity and pride of having their number engraved on the back of their watch.
AstroMYO, in a period where the climate issue is more and more important, also wants to try to protect the planet. That’s why we commit ourselves to plant a tree for each kit ordered, in collaboration with planète-urgence. These trees will be planted in deforested areas or endangered ecosystems.
