The Hong Kong based watch brand FullGear has recently launched their first series of watch collection at Kickstarter. Named Pioneer, this automatic watch is equipped with Swiss made tritium gas light. Paired with their user-friendly watch customizer, the brand will also offer their customers a new concept of watch making with options to choose from more than 10000 combinations.
FullGear is the world first customizable tritium watch brand. Starting from color of the case, design of the dial, color of hands, material of the strap, you could even have access to color of tritium tubes on the dial or hands. None of the other tritium watch brands offer customizing service as detailed as this before.
The FullGear Pioneer series features Swiss made GTLS from mb microtec, a leading tritium tube manufacturer located in Niederwangen, Switzerland. Used by several luxury watch brands, Gaseous Tritium Light Sources (GTLS) is an all-the-time glowing device which grants readability in even complete darkness.
GTLS is a tiny glass vessel filled with tritium gas; the electrons emitted by tritium gas are absorbed by the chemical layer inside the glass vessel and keep the tube glowing continually for more than 12 years.
FullGear watch is probably the first tritium watch brand to provide customization services to customers. There is a wide range of options available for your watch, including dials, hands, straps, and even color of tritium tubes.
FullGear watch cases are made with marine grade 316L Stainless Steel. The watch case is 20 ATM (equivalent to 200 meters) water resistant. The watch is fitted with scratch resistant sapphire crystal glass featuring anti-reflective coating.
The watch case measures 43mm diameter, 52mm lug-to-lug length, 22mm lug width and 15.1mm thickness (including crystal). The watch also features a solid stainless steel case back and a screw-down crown.
FullGear watches are fitted with USA oily leather straps. The watch incorporates quick release spring pin system for easy swapping of the straps. FullGear offers two versions of its Pioneer watch: NightMaster and Navigator.
Both watch models feature GTLS tubes as hour-marker indices in line with the corresponding Arabic numeral hour markers. Their hands (hour, minute and second) also incorporate GTLS tubes. The difference between the two models is that the NightMaster version features Japan Luminova on its Arabic numerals while the Navigator doesn’t.
The movement that drives the Fullgear Pioneer watches are SII NH35 automatic movement that displays the time (hour, minute and central seconds) along with a date window at 3 o’ clock. This self-winding mechanical calibre, which has 24 jewels and beats at 21600 vph, provides a power reserve of 41 hours.
The FullGear Kickstarter campaign was launched on 12/10/2020. Super Early Bird price as low as USD$296.
Technical details
Model: NightMaster
Case
316L Stainless Steel Case
Sapphire Crystal with 2 layer of AR coating
20ATM/200M Water resistant
Movement
SII NH35 3 Hands Date Automatic Movement
Dial
Swiss made tritium tubes from mb microtec
Luminova Numbers
Strap
USA Oily Leather Strap
Quick release spring bar system
Super Early Bird price
USD $312 (HKD $2410)
Model: Navigator
Case
316L Stainless Steel Case
Sapphire Crystal with 2 layer of AR coating
20ATM/200M Water resistant
Movement
SII NH35 3 Hands Date Automatic Movement
Dial
Swiss made tritium tubes from mb microtec
Strap
USA Oily Leather Strap
Quick release spring bar system
Super Early Bird price
USD $296 (HKD $2290)
Kickstarter campaign link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/fullgear/fullgear-the-world-1st-customizable-tritium-watch
