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CMXI Watch

Celebrating the passion of the 70’s & inspired by sports cars tachometers

Designed in Norway, the CMXI watch is an innovative mens chronograph that pays homage to the iconic sports cars of the 1970's.

BRANDING

A good looking car watch inspired by sports cars from the 1960s and 1970s.

DESIGN

A classic instrument panel inspiration, but still keeping with watch aesthetics. The main hand is also used to count minutes to really get that gauge feel. The straps has a unique set of double holes going all the way down the strap to be fasten with a dual hook buckle. The design idea for this we got from classic racing gloves and the set of holes running down the fingers.

PRODUCTION

The watch is made with a PVD coated case, real leather strap and crystal glass. The watch uses a Miyota quartz retrograde chronograph movement. Later we released two limited edition variations with their own custom straps, which quickly sold out. 

MARKETING

Successful Kickstarter campaign – 

516,273 NOK in 30 days. 

CMXI watch

Straps

Inspired by the rows of holes typically found on vintage racing gloves, we have given the CMXI a unique look with two sets of large holes running all the way around the strap.
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Features

Case: 45mm wide (without the crown) // Strap: 24mm wide // Crown diameter: 5mm // Watch height: 11mm // Material: 364L stainless steel, sandblasted with black PVD plating // Case & Lugs: Screw in case back & stainless steel lugs // Glass: Flat Sapphire, 42mm diameter and 2mm thick // Movement: Citizen Miyota 6SA2 movement // Dials: Sandwich dials // Buckle: Dual pin buckle, sandblasted with PVD coating // Water Resistance: 3 ATM // Logo on crown and engraved on back case
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Writings on the watch

All the writings on the watch are in Latin or Roman Numerals. Surrounding the main dial is the Latin phrase “ amare et sapere vix deo conceditur”, which basically means “Even a god finds it hard to love and be reasonable at the same time”. A phrase we think most classic car enthusiasts can relate to this when it comes to the time and money spent on our passion.
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Dial

A sandwich design to the watch where the top dial actually moves behind the main dial. The quarter top dial inspired by old gas/oil gauges. // Having the single main hand to tell the time was one of our first must haves and it reflects the design of a classical rev counter or speedometer. With a matching redline at 12 o´clock.
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Extra strap

An extra nato strap to all the Kickstarter backers for reaching 500,000 NOK stretch goal.

Cursus Victus

From the Latin translation roughly meaning “The racing way of life”, we are a small outfit situated just outside the Norwegian capitol of Oslo.

Being highly passionate about all forms of design it was really important to us that apart from the movement, all parts of the watch were designed by us and produced only for this watch. There are no shortcuts with the CMXI.

Cursus Victus was established in 2015 by our lead creator Torgeir Sanders, a bootstrap designer and entrepreneur with a big passion for anything old with an engine and some beautiful lines to it.

All watches are designed in Norway and assembled in Hong Kong.

CMXI watch

Kickstarter campaign

Project Launching

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Funding Success

224 backers pledged NOK 516,273
OCTOBER 29, 2016

Shipment 

Shipment began 
MARCH 2, 2017

 

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