Some of you that follow me on X might have seen that I have been talking about watches here and there over the last few months. Thats for a reason. I am currently working on launching a small 50-unit watch run, but the watch itself is only part of the story.
The real goal is to demonstrate a practical, production ready use case for Hive as an authenticity and provenance layer, something that today is dominated by expensive, closed systems.
Each watch in this run will be paired with a tamper resistant NFC chip using a challenge–response mechanism. When a user taps the NFC card with their phone, it will open a verification webpage. The chip cryptographically provides its identity, and that identity is matched against metadata stored immutably on Hive.
Why Hive is uniquely suited for this, is the Resource Credit (RC) model.
Most “luxury authentication” blockchains charge per item, often $5–$10 per product, require enterprise subscriptions costing millions annually like is the case with their Aura Blockchain or have high integration expenditure. This pricing structure completely excludes microbrands and small manufacturers.
On Hive, the cost profile is fundamentally different.
Because RCs regenerate, metadata can be written gradually over time at near-zero cost. A microbrand uploading hundreds or even hundreds of thousands of serialized items per year can do so for hundreds of dollars annually or less especially if initial onboarding is supported via delegation. There is no per-item fee, no gas volatility.
This system built on Hive will be 1 million times cheaper than Aura, 1000 times cheaper than Vechain, Everledger and any other public chain like Polygon, Avalanche...
Verification logic and UX live off-chain, while trust lives on-chain, exactly where Hive excels.
The 50-unit watch run serves as a live demo. The broader objective is to open this system to microbrands first and once established, to enterprises as well, providing Hive with a concrete, non-financial,
real-world use case that focuses on onboarding businesses, where the businesses have a true, visible benefit from using Hive.
If Hive is to grow beyond social and DeFi primitives, it needs visible examples like this:
cheap, reliable solutions that quietly do its job at scale.
The watches are currently in production. I expect they will be done inside a few weeks when ill reveal them. I have been sharing some dial images and case images at different stages of production so far.
Once ready, I will be doing a Kickstarter proposal for this as I feel the idea has a genuine market fit and demand. While the technology is the primary focus of this project, the watch itself is built to established industry standards, not as a novelty piece. Uses proven components commonly found in much higher priced watches.
I want to see if I am able to attract outside attention.
You can support my efforts by supporting the Kickstarter once its live.
I'm tempted to get one just because of how cool the watch face looks!
Any idea on a price point for this?
Also, do you have any sort of a notification list set up? My fear is I'd miss it amongst all my other Hive notifications.
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The price will be sub 1000 USD. How low I can go Ill determine based on demand.
Basically the goal is to make it competitive at my specs with other watches in the same range while being able to develop the tech.
I wanted to make something thats entry to mid luxury and would basically last forever.
Yeah. The dial is really the star of the show. Most diver watches look almost exactly the same, why I went with a dressy diver aesthetic. Embossed asanoah hexagonal pattern, Red fume, unique hexagonal hourmarks. On the video the hourmarks arent added yet obviously.
All design cues are supposed to tell a story. Obviously its blockchain related. Even the snowflake/square hands play into that.
Nothing is random.
Not yet. There will definitely be one once the site is up and proper photos and promos. Its important for the kickstarter algo that I get a good early start which is why there wont be anyone on Hive that wont know this is happening once i start promoting. 😅
Thanks for replying so quickly!
Yeah, I'm not normally a watch guy, but I'd make an exception for this! 😁
I have this post bookmarked. I look forward to updates and when the Kickstarter goes live!
I wasnt a big watch guy either before I started doing research for this. Owned a few, but thats it. Its easy to get obsessed once you get into it.
Its quite unique hobby for a subset of the population thats generally pretty wealthy, one of the reason why getting the Hive name inside this particular market might be valuable to us. Those are the people we should be targeting as potential investors.
I agree. I think the more use cases we can create for HIVE the better.
I forgot to ask, is the glass going to be standard size so it's easy to replace if it gets scratched or breaks?
The glass used is Sapphire crystal. Its 9 out of 10 on the Mohs hardness scale. So its incredibly unlikely it will scratch unless you run diamonds over it. 😅
Ooh, excellent choice!
I have some flashlights built with that and none of them have noticeably scratched even after being dropped on concrete and in gravel. 😁
Happy holidays...
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