Mark Carson Ka La Ladies Watch On Kickstarter
Sponsored PostIn 2010, I started?Individual Design (now marketed as Mark Carson) with the goal of producing uniquely designed, high quality watches at affordable prices. It took 2 years to develop and begin deliveries of my men's Ka La ("The Sun" in Hawaiian) watches. Ever since those first customer deliveries in 2012, people have been asking for a ladies version of these unique watches with their signature case design and spinning seconds disk.With the design goals of a more modest size and price point, I began designing a Ladies Ka La Watch and I am now ready to begin production as soon as funding is secured. With a unique design inspired by the sundial, these ladies watches are elegant enough for a night out, while their contemporary design makes them suitable for daily wear. The retail price will be $400 when these watches are sold at selected fine watch and jewelry stores.OK, enough with the marketing-speak. Let's cut to the chase: go to my Kickstarter Project Page and sign up fo

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Suffice it to say master watchmaker Kari Voutilainen knows a thing or two about a good watch. That's why when we saw our friends at QP Magazine ask the highly regarded technician about some of today's most revered, but serially produced chronographs, we took notice. 1 OF 1 Kari doesn't really "review" the watches in any great detail – for that you'll have to rely on our Three on Three of the best manually wound chronographs in the world – but he does offer some interesting insight into what makes each movement special.Have a read right here.

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You can pay the bouncer at a club to bypass the line. You can pay at a restaurant to get a table immediately. You can pay to avoid standing in line for rides at DisneyWorld.You can pay to drive in express lanes to get somewhere faster.Now, the latter two are more official than the former two. But the point is you can pay a business/person to get things faster in different areas of life.Has anyone paid someone at an AD to bypass the list for a hot watch?