Your phone tracks your steps. Your smartwatch tracks your heart rate. Your earbuds track your location. At some point, we stopped using technology and started being used by it. Mudita Radiant is a field watch for people who’ve had enough. Built in Switzerland with the same minimalist philosophy that made Mudita’s “dumbphones” award-winners, it’s a mechanical timepiece that promises exceptional legibility, everyday durability, and absolutely zero notifications. Available now on Kickstarter in five nature-inspired colors and three sizes, it’s already raised over $58,000, proof that the anti-smartwatch revolution is just getting started.
If you don’t know Mudita, here’s the quick version: they’re the Polish company founded by Michał Kiciński (yes, the CD Projekt Red guy who helped create The Witcher) that’s been championing digital minimalism through products that harmonize with your life instead of competing for your attention. Their Mudita Kompakt phone features an E Ink® display and an Offline+ switch that cuts all wireless signals at the hardware level. Their previous watch, the Mudita Element, launched on Kickstarter and hit “Fully funded” in 23 minutes. They’ve won awards from the Calm Tech Institute for respecting attention and peace of mind. Now they’re applying that same philosophy to a proper field watch.
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What makes the Radiant watch actually interesting is how it fits into Mudita’s broader ecosystem. Their phones use E Ink® displays, hardware-level privacy switches, and custom operating systems designed to minimize distraction. Their alarm clocks use breathing features and calming interfaces. Everything they make pushes back against the attention economy. The Radiant continues that philosophy on your wrist. It’s mechanical, so there’s no battery to charge, no software to update, no notifications to silence. You set it, you wear it. The automatic movement keeps running because you’re moving, which is a level of symbiosis that smartwatches can only simulate with step counters and haptic feedback.
The Radiant runs on a Sellita SW 200 Elaboré movement, the enhanced grade that’s regulated in three positions instead of the standard two. It beats at 28,800 vph, giving you that smooth seconds sweep, with accuracy rated at ±7 to ±20 seconds per day and a 38 to 41 hour power reserve. The movement is protected by an Incabloc shock protection system, which is exactly what you want if this watch is actually going to see daily wear. Everything is manufactured and hand-assembled by Chrono AG, a company that’s been making Swiss Made private-label watches since 1981. Their headquarters sits in a historic building from 1915 that once housed one of Switzerland’s first watchmaking schools, which feels appropriately poetic for a watch that’s trying to return to fundamentals.
The Radiant comes in 32mm, 37mm, and 40mm case diameters, all with a profile between 10 and 10.5mm. Finding a 32mm automatic field watch is nearly impossible in 2025, when most brands seem convinced everyone wants a 42mm wrist anchor. Mudita clearly designed this to actually fit different wrists, which sounds obvious until you realize how few brands bother. The case is brushed 316L surgical-grade stainless steel with different finishing techniques: circular brushing on the case top and crown, linear brushing on the sides. The brushed finish serves a practical purpose beyond aesthetics, it masks the inevitable minor scratches and fingerprints that come with daily wear. There’s also a crown guard, which protects against accidental bumps without making the watch look like it’s trying too hard to be tactical.
Given that dumbphones still have screens but watches don’t, a lot went into channeling Mudita’s minimalist philosophy into the watch’s dial. There’s no logo. None. The only branding is a small lotus carved into the crown, which you’ll feel when you wind the watch but won’t see unless you’re looking for it. The dial uses a custom Mudita typeface with a full 12-hour layout, every number present and accounted for, which makes reading the time genuinely effortless. The hands and hour markers are coated with Swiss Super-LumiNova BGW9, one of the brightest luminescent materials available. Mudita tested this thing in various lighting conditions, from bright sunlight to total darkness, and paired the lume with a sapphire crystal that has triple anti-reflective coating. The sapphire rates 9 on the Mohs hardness scale, second only to diamond, so unless you’re deliberately trying to scratch it, the crystal should stay clear for years.
The dial’s colors tell you everything about Mudita’s design ethos. Natural White like fresh snow, Sand Beige like silent coastlines, Moss Green drawn from forest trails, Baltic Blue mirroring the ocean, and Charcoal Black echoing raw charcoal texture. These aren’t vibrant, look-at-me colors. They’re muted, grounded tones that pair with the six available strap colors, which include all five dial colors plus Pebble Gray. The straps use a quick-release mechanism, so swapping straps takes seconds without tools. This matters more than it sounds because it means the watch adapts to different contexts without requiring you to own multiple watches.
Water resistance sits at 10 ATM, which translates to 100 meters. That’s enough for rain, hand washing, swimming, even a shower if you’re not fiddling with the crown underwater. It’s not a dive watch, but it’s legitimately waterproof for everyday life, which is exactly what a field watch should be. The caseback features a unique engraved number for each watch, making every Radiant technically a limited edition piece. Mudita is transparent about this being a collectible item, but they’re not using artificial scarcity as a marketing gimmick. The numbering is there because they’re making these in controlled batches, not churning out thousands.
Searches for “dumbphones” have risen over 300% in the past year. Feature phone sales in the UK reached 450,000 units in 2024. This isn’t a niche movement anymore – people are genuinely exhausted by devices that demand constant attention, and Mudita is building products for that exhaustion. The Radiant isn’t trying to replace your smartphone or compete with your Apple Watch. It’s trying to be the thing you wear when being punctual is important, nothing else. Not your fitness, not your step count, not your Slack or Teams notifications, and not someone calling you on your phone and having a buzzing sensation on your wrist. In other words, it’s trying to be what watches used to be before technology somehow convinced us it could be everything else.
The Ultra Early Bird tier sits at €479 ($556 USD), saving €220 off the planned retail price of €699 ($810 USD). There’s also a Bundle option at €879 for two watches, which saves a decent chunk off retail if you’re buying pairs. All tiers include a 14-day trial period where you can return the watch for a full refund if it’s undamaged, and all prices include taxes and duties, no surprise tariffs suddenly catching you off guard. Mudita is committing to delivering every single watch by May 31, 2026, although they’re aiming for a moonshot of delivering it just before Christmas this year. They’ve however offered backers a full money refund just in case shipping doesn’t work out pre-Christmas. Either that, or hold on to your pledge and you’ll definitely get the watch before May 31st, 2026.
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