KLYNT Genève – Making Swiss Watches creative again

Klynt watches are currently live on Kickstarter, and are well worth checking out with a starting price of CHF990

KLYNT was born in the cradle of fine watchmaking, Geneva. In Switzerland, surrounded by historical manufactures and their best artisans, they could have revived a past brand or manufactured a homage watch. Yet KLYNT is all but conformist. They are a pioneer, bringing their incredible know-how in a contemporary universe to express their passion for creativity.

I caught up to the owner Bruno to ask him about the brand..

KLYNT launched a Kickstarter project that is much different from all other microbrands: when most brands look for Asian-made affordable ( and sometimes qualitative) movements & watches, KLYNT takes the bet to perpetuate a long tradition that started, in Geneva.

For us Geneva is not only a Swiss Made stamp on our watches, it’s our roots, our passion and where our best artisans assemble each watch we produce. Every detail of this first collection has been carefully studied and refined to reach this incredible value proposition: creative design, technicity and astonishing finishing level, only observed in Haute Horlogerie watches, retailing far above CHF 5’000 .

Only thanks to our modern direct distribution, we can offer ELEGANCE CONTEMPORAINE timepieces at an accessible pricepoint, so that more people can get access to this incredible know-how and quality that only true Swiss watches can offer.

Technical details

Case:

 Stainless steel 316L
 Total diameter 43.5mm
 Thickness 11.19mm
 Water resistance 50meters / 5ATM
 Stainless steel crown
 Vertical brushed and polished case and bezel
 Stamped lugs with sanded and brushed finishing
 Glare proofed domed sapphire crystal
 Exhibition back Sapphire
 Case back with Limited edition numbering

Movement:

 Swiss Mechanical self-winding SW 290
 Total diameter 25.60 mm
 Thickness 5.60mm
 Number of jewels 31 jewels
 Frequency 28,800 vph (4 Hz)
 Power reserve: 38 hours
 Automatic winding
Oscillating mass with a Côtes de Genève motif

Dial and hands:

Bottom dial layer with sand blasted brass, moon shaped triangular honeycomb and smoked plexiglass below the small secondt
 Intermediary gun-metal sunray filet
 Vertical brushed top filet with engraved logo
 Brushed second ring and date window with double bezel
 Rhodiumed Minute numerals and triangular indices
 Minutetrac
 Satined hours and minutes hands, white Luminous