What promises to be the “world’s first kinetic self-charging smartwatch”, the novel timepiece is the creation of a Swiss start-up that’s hoping to revolutionize the smartwatch market.

Sequent is a young and ambitious company based out of Luzern, Switzerland that recently launched the innovative SuperCharger timepiece on Kickstarter.

Now, this is not the first time that we’ve come across a new pretender in the watch industry, with sights to create a “revolution” of one sort or another.

This new smartwatch, however, does seem to solve a real problem that has been plaguing smartwatches: battery life. Most famously, the Apple Watch – among others – have been critiqued for their poor longevity or constant need to be plugged in to a power source. Certainly, that’s not the type of “connected” that smartwatches were promising us.

While performance and battery life have been improving with the next generation of smartwatches, Sequent is intent on getting rid of that problem entirely. In fact, they’ve provided a cheeky comparison graphic on their Kickstarter page to demonstrate their comparative advantage.

The start-up has introduced a kinetic self-charging battery system into their smartwatch, which promises to provide “infinite power supply”. Their patented movement is based on a traditional Swiss automatic movement. It has been adapted with a self-charging battery system with the help of Kinetron, a world leading manufacturer of micro generator systems.

As a result of normal daily movements, an oscillating weight conveys energy to a micro generator system that is then stored in the rechargeable high-performance battery. That energy is then used for the select smart features, including a heart rate sensor, GPS tracking and a notification system that can connect via Bluetooth to the brand’s app.

No word yet on the life cycle of that rechargeable battery, but we expect/assume it to be durable. At this stage, a positive is that the start-up has already been granted a patent for the unique self-charging system to power a smartwatch.

Naturally, not having the need to find a wall outlet or to change a battery is a huge plus for a smartwatch. And the energy produced is advertised is “clean” since it is the result of the daily movement of the wearers. But let’s just not forget that any mechanical watch – whether it is automatic or manual wound – is also powered by “clean” energy of the same sort.

What I like about the watch is the clean, well-balanced, and very technical looking dial. It features a prominent power indication that is meant to display how active the wearer is, and by extension how much charge the watch has left. Of course, the charge on the watch can also be topped off with a few simple flicks of the wrist and without much physical activity, for those inclined to cheat the system a bit.

So far, the SuperCharger project has been very well received. Starting with a modest fundraising goal of only 80,000 Swiss francs, the company has already crowd funded over 400,000 Swiss francs at the time of writing.

That’s not much of a surprise given what’s on offer, and also considering that they also seem to have gotten the pricing very right. Starting at a promotional price of only $149 USD, if the watch delivers on all of its promises it just might reach those revolutionary ambitions.

And if it all goes well, Sequent could become to the watch industry what Tesla has become to the automotive industry. First deliveries are expected in December 2017, and we’ll keep you updated from there.