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By Liz Brody •
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Vortic is a watch company. But in 2015, that description was overly generous. It was more like two guys working out of a storage closet with $40,000 from a Kickstarter. To make ends meet, one of those guys also had a corporate job at Walmart. They aspired to make watches, sure, but they'd never actually done it.
That's why when a cease-and-desist letter arrived from one of the largest watch companies in the world, they thought it was a joke.
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