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A 0.80mm thin flexible wristwatch with an E Ink display housed in a single piece of stainless steel.

CST-01: The World's Thinnest Watch

A 0.80mm thin flexible wristwatch with an E Ink display housed in a single piece of stainless steel.
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Central Standard Timing
Central Standard Timing
7,658 backers pledged $1,026,292 to help bring this project to life.
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Central Standard Timing LLC Assignment for the Benefit of Creditors

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An Apology to Our Backers + Parting Ways with Flextronics.

Hi everyone, 

We’d like to begin this update with our deepest apologies. Through all the challenges we’ve faced, the only thing that has kept us going is your belief in... Read more

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Status Update

Where We’re at Now: 

Our manufacturing partner has estimated they’ll need an additional $1.2M from us for them to fulfill our orders. This is due to the proportion of good... Read more

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Finances Update & Where We Go From Here

Hi again, we wanted to add this Financial Summary into last update, but it took about six hours to distill all the technical details into something that could be digestible,... Read more

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Production Update

Production numbers and speed of production are much lower than estimated, initial production was initially estimated at 1,000 - 2,000 units per week from our manufacturer. The production line is... Read more

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We are shipping

Hello Backers,

Last week, we worked with our manufacturer to finish building, testing, and shipping our first batch of products!

We'd like to share a few photos of this final... Read more

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Progress Update

 Hello Backers,

We are back from another couple of trips out to the manufacturer and have some progress to share with you.  

New Steel Tools and Cavities

We found... Read more

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Progress Update

The first samples made with all final manufacturing processes:

We just returned from another 2 week trip to California to work closely with our manufacturing partner.  Above are the first... Read more

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Nitinol Bands | Golden Samples Received.

We received the fourth round of sample bands today from our metal partner and are happy to communicate that everything is looking right on for the dimensions. 

We have checked... Read more

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Band Update and Assembly Step Refinement

Communication Lapse 

First off, we know we need to do a better job communicating and apologize for the lapse. We thought that if we just put 100% of our effort... Read more

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Manufacturing Update

Hello from Milpitas, CA,

We're once again in California in the Flextronics facility working with them daily to get the kinks out of the process and streamline manufacturing.  Here's where... Read more

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The Results are Clear

The results are in.  We're calling it because ever since we launched the survey, the results read roughly 65/35 in favor of taking the time we need to get the... Read more

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Progress Report and Tolerance Survey

Hello backers, we just got back from another 2 week trip working at Flextronics and we have a status update to share with you.

The main news is that all... Read more

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Our Trip to Flextronics

A lot happened in the past couple of weeks.  As promised, we have some photos of our trip to share with you.  This update will be more of an annotated... Read more

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Final pieces of the puzzle

TL;DR: We are slightly behind schedule. Three areas in the list of 60 or so things to complete have required more tuning to pass dimension tests and assembly. This has... Read more

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So Far So Good

The TL;DR: Items and sub-assemblies are on schedule. We still have some challenges to overcome, but things are looking promising.

Most of our updates focus on the ‘wins’, This time... Read more

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Tutorial: How to change your address if you have moved.

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Water Resistance, USB connectivity, & Schedule Update

What’s Happened & What's In Progress

- Our battery partner has delivered all the custom units. 

- The final watch circuit boards are all in our possession, currently being... Read more

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Mini Update: Come say hi at CES!

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Titanium Bands, Certification and Progress Report

Titanium Bands

This is something we’re pretty excited about. The stainless steel band was performing well, but we thought we could improve upon it. We tested titanium in parallel with... Read more

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Our E Ink Circuits Have Arrived!

First of all, we’d like to thank E Ink for all their hard work to date. We’re excited to announce we received the first 150 fully integrated circuits a week... Read more

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On the ground with Flextronics

Last week we began a trip to California to work closely with our assembly partner, Flextronics, for 30 days. Our goal is that relocation will allow us to accelerate development... Read more

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The Update Where We Talk About Delays and Hope You Understand

(TL;DR: It looks like the watch will ship December - January.)

It’s been a busy six weeks here at CST. We’ve been concentrating on four main things:

1. Finalizing a... Read more

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Water Resistance and More Travel-Friendly Base Station

We’ve been especially busy this month meeting with many possible partners and having to redesign certain parts for those partner’s capabilities. We’re also having to create and develop some new... Read more

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In the New York Times Today

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Our New Space, Sizes, Batteries etc.

Hello everyone,

We have been hard at work and have a big update for you.

Working Full Time:
We are now in our third week of working full time on... Read more

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Kickstarter Funding Round Complete, Our Preorder Website is Live

Firstly, we want to thank all of the backers who helped us raise funds for this project.  Completing at over $1M and 5 times our original goal, we are deeply... Read more

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Successfully raised $1,026,292 with 7,658 backers

Full Story of the Design Process, New Display Update and Wear Testing

We have less than 3 days left on the clock so we wrapped up some things we wanted to update you with before the campaign ends.

Background Story

We put... Read more

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Introducing Two New Colors

We are pleased to announce that we will be introducing new color options, these are the "Nando Rossi Edition" (CST-01NR) and the "Rose Gold Edition" (CST-01RG).

The Nando Rossi... Read more

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Black + White Reward Level Has to Be Removed

Hello,

We just got a message from Kickstarter about this reward tier. It is apparently in violation of their guideline that prohibits rewards of multiples.

Although we thought this reward... Read more

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Sizing Update and Details of Our Next Prototype Round

Hello everyone, 

We are getting ready to do our next batch of prototypes.  These will take into account a few revisions from what you have seen. 

1: The main difference... Read more

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The No-Backlight Challenge!

Many of you are interested in how the watch performs at night and in dark places given that there is no backlight.  I took two prototypes out around the neighborhood... Read more

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Update #2, Kickstarter's stance on multiples, Font questions

We doubled our goal!

Thank you to everyone.  We just doubled our goal within a week and can't express enough thanks for your ongoing support.

We have some more answers... Read more

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Project Update #1

We would like to thank all of the backers so far.  Your support has been incredible!  Now that we are funded, we are fortunate enough to have more of a... Read more

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Project launched