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InferredSourcing Notes: MINUS-8 was founded in 2013 by industrial designer Dana Krieger, incubated out of Astro Studios (the San Francisco design firm behind the Xbox 360 and Nike FuelBand). The brand designs its watches in-house in the San Francisco Bay Area and uses Japanese Seiko (NH35, Epson AS-01 solar) and Miyota (2315) movements, with cases manufactured overseas to spec. Mike Airaudi is listed as Founder/CEO of MINUS-8 Inc. on LinkedIn, suggesting a business co-founder alongside design founder Dana Krieger.
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Ships from San Francisco, United States
No import duties for American buyers
This brand assembles in the US — watches ship tariff-free to domestic addresses.
No import duty on domestically assembled watches. Brands like TSAO Baltimore, Nodus, Vaer, and Vortic ship tariff-free to US buyers.
Tariffs are assessed based on where the watch is assembled, not where individual components originate. A watch with a Japanese movement assembled in the US incurs no import duty.
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