Fifty-five hours remain on the Monichs Delta Collection campaign. The Lugano startup set a $6,055 goal for its first release, and backers have pledged $33,288 against it, better than five times the ask, with the deadline set for Friday, November 13, at 11:59 AM Central. It is the brand’s first campaign: no prior releases, the trilogy and the clock. Every further pledge is margin for the makers and a discount locked in for the backer.
Delta is a trilogy of integrated-bracelet sports watches, designed in Italy and built in Switzerland. The silhouette follows the template the industry has chased for a decade: a tonneau case flowing into a tapering bracelet, no lugs, no break in the line from case to clasp.
Monichs Delta Collection
Sellita SW200-2 Élaboré automatic · 38mm 316L steel case, 10.5mm thick · Sapphire crystal with anti-reflective coating
Price: $1,600 $2,400 (save $800, 33% off)
Where to buy: Back it on Kickstarter
Three years of work sit behind the launch. Monichs drew every component in-house, case, bracelet, dial, crown, caseback, and rotor, then validated pre-series prototypes before opening the campaign. A Swiss manufacturing partner handles production. Each watch ships in a collector’s presentation box with a certificate of authenticity, and backers join the maker’s VIP club for life. The low goal reflects the runway: the prototypes were built and paid for before the campaign opened, so pledges fund production, not development.
Nineteen backers account for the pledged total. What they are buying into is a first campaign. The maker’s answer is hardware that already exists, photographed on wrists and in hands, not renders. Every pledge is a pre-order for a watch that does not exist as retail stock yet.
Three dials, and one of them is stone
Celeste leads with a powder-blue lacquered dial laid over a fine geometric texture. The blue reads deep at the edges and bright in the middle, over a texture fine enough to catch light like fabric. Sunset trades lacquer for stone: natural agate, banded in reds and oranges, cut thin and polished. Virentia closes the set in a mottled forest green lacquer that darkens toward the rim.
All three share applied indices, one handset. Each dial signs its name above the six.
Agate does the design work on its own. The stone’s bands run where they run, so two Sunset dials share a color family and nothing else. It is the only dial of the three cut from stone, and it can never be repeated.
Virentia carries one more difference, around the back. Celeste and Sunset close with solid engraved casebacks; Virentia opens up with sapphire.
Swiss underneath
Power comes from Sellita’s SW200-2 in Élaboré grade, a Swiss automatic with 26 jewels running at 28,800 vibrations per hour. Élaboré is Sellita’s upgraded grade, a step above the base specification. The calibre itself follows the workhorse layout the Swiss industry has built on for decades.
The reserve runs 38 hours, a day and a half off the wrist. Finishing: Côtes de Genève striping, polished screw heads, bevelled edges.
The Italian half of the project shows in the drawings: the rotor was sketched shape after shape before the design locked, the same treatment the case profiles and bracelet studies got on paper before any metal moved.
The rotor is Monichs’ own design, a three-spoke wheel in a copper tone, hand-engraved with the brand’s insignia. The insignia sits at the rotor’s center, inside the triangle the brand uses as its mark. Each movement gets regulated and tested to Swiss Made standards before casing. The Swiss partner certifies and inspects every cased watch before it leaves the workshop. Virentia’s sapphire back puts that work on display; the other two keep it behind engraved steel.
The case runs 38 millimeters across
That 38mm case stands about 10.5mm thick including the crystal, dimensions closer to a vintage sports watch than to the current crop of oversized divers. Water resistance reaches 10 ATM. The proportions read vintage; the sealing is modern. A signed crown sits between guards that form part of the case itself.
The integrated bracelet is 316L steel under a hard coating rated at 1,200 Vickers, several times harder than the bare metal. It is the maker’s answer to swirl marks. Its folding clasp releases by push-button and adjusts on the fly, no tools, so the fit can change with the weather. The links taper toward the clasp, brushed on top with polished chamfers running down the edges. Swiss Super-LumiNova fills the indices and hands.
The tiers, minus the early birds
Every Super Early Bird tier has sold out, and the remaining ladder is simple. Two watches run $2,800, which is 42% off the $4,800 the pair would cost at retail. The full trilogy runs $3,500 against $7,200 at retail, 51% off, and multi-watch backers can mix the three dials in any combination.
Per watch, the math steepens as the bundle grows: $1,400 a watch inside the pair, about $1,167 a watch inside the trilogy.
Backers pick their dials after the campaign, through the survey. The pledge can split into three monthly payments instead of one charge. Shipping runs worldwide, duties left to the backer.
Monichs Delta Collection
Low laser-engraved serial number for Kickstarter backers · Two-year warranty against manufacturing defects · Estimated delivery Feb 2027
Price: $1,600 $2,400 (save $800, 33% off)
Where to buy: Back it on Kickstarter
Kickstarter charges cards only on funded campaigns; this one cleared its goal several times over. A pledge placed before Friday noon goes through. After 11:59 AM Central the window shuts, and the trilogy moves on to its retail prices. Anyone who wants one at Kickstarter money shares the makers’ deadline. That is the whole offer: Swiss-made, stone-dialed, and gone by Friday.
