Tsao Baltimore is a Baltimore watch company whose timepieces are designed and built in Maryland, with nods to the city everywhere, from the Torsk dive watch inspired by the USS Torsk submarine in the Inner Harbor to Orioles and OLD BAY collaborations.
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1 productXericXeric officially launched in November 2013 with a Kickstarter campaign for the Xeriscope, after brothers Mitch and Andrew Greenblatt teamed up with Danny Hunsaker. It has since run 25 successful Kickstarter campaigns, calls itself "Kickstarter's most successful watch brand," and makes unusual mechanical watches such as the Halograph, Vendetta and Scrambler to "make time fun again."
1 productBrewJonathan Ferrer's Brew Watch Co. is "independently designed in NYC" and "inspired by coffee," turning the daily coffee-break ritual into watches with 1970s styling, including the Metric, Super Metric, Metric Lite and Retrograph.
1 productVeroVERO Watch Company makes modern adventure watches inspired by nature, including the Workhorse chronograph and collaborations with Smokey Bear and Realtree.
1 productVaerVaer is a Venice, California watch brand founded in 2016, making durable field, dive, chronograph and GMT watches built for everyday wear from ocean to office.
1 productNomadNomad traces back to "a single idea — an ultra-portable yet highly functional charging cable." Noah Dentzel and Brian Hahn met in Santa Barbara in 2012 and launched ChargeCard, Nomad's first product, on Kickstarter. Today it makes leather and rugged iPhone cases, Apple Watch and Garmin bands, MagSafe chargers and Find My tracking wallets.
1 productNezumiNEZUMI started in 2011 as "the brainchild of Stockholm based designer, vintage sports car & watch enthusiast David Campo." His first project was a limited run of 50 selvage denim jeans made in Sweden, which grew into denim, leather goods and accessories before the first NEZUMI watch, the Voiture, arrived in 2015. Today the brand calls itself "a creative house" spanning premium watchmaking, designer apparel and its own classic Porsche 911 club, with watches of Swedish design assembled in Germany.
