First Collection · Four Chapters

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The First Collection

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The lume

It keeps going after the light does.

Two photographs, five hours apart. Tap to move between them.

Positive Empathetic's beaded watch photographed at 4:12 PM in daylightPositive Empathetic's beaded watch at 9:40 PM, the lume glowing on the dial4:12 PM

Two watches from the first collection, photographed the same day — one in afternoon light, one after dark.

Man in a black sleeveless tee seated outside a diner beneath a red neon sign, the gold and Riverstone Red beaded watch on his wrist.

Presence That Lasts

I designed this. I’ve worn my own for five years, through everything ordinary life throws at a watch. It’s still here — and so am I.

This isn’t just a watch. It’s where design meets emotion, and where what you wear can carry more than it looks like it does.

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I wanted to make room for something real.

Our place

Positive Empathetic’s is a place for recognition: a pause for what has shaped you, what stays with you, and what you choose to make of it.

Our view

Through the dark and the light, there is no single way to move forward. There is only the honest work of meeting your own life.

Our beginning

The first collection starts small and clear: four beaded-watch colourways, each offered as a personal choice rather than a prescribed meaning.

Our intention

Pain into purpose is the whole of it. We leave room for reflection, and we do not ask anyone to become someone else.

I want to be who I didn’t have when I needed it most.

Ryan Zakrzewski, founder

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Each watch is $145. Production begins once 100 pieces are reserved. Estimated shipping December 15, 2026.

Why We Exist

What you wear says something. Even when you don’t.

I didn’t build Positive Empathetic’s because I had it figured out. I built it because I didn’t, and I chose to move forward anyway — through my own seasons of anger, disconnection and numbness, sitting with the shadows I had to learn to face.

Not all at once. Slowly. Until happiness stopped being something that happened to me and became something I chose. Going inward was uncomfortable, and it is where I found out what I was made of. That’s the alchemy.

This watch is what that decision looked like for me. Not a flex. Not a material statement. An object I designed to mean something to the person wearing it and nothing to anyone else.

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Positive Empathetic's Matte Gold Beaded Watch, 38mm riverstone red dial — lifestyle shot on the wrist

Pain into Purpose

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Positive Empathetic's Rose Gold Beaded Watch, 38mm pearl stone bracelet — dial and bracelet detail

Showing Up For Yourself

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Macro detail of the matte black 38mm dial and black beaded band, The Shadow, worn on the wrist.

Built From Within

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The polished steel 38mm case and silver dial photographed against a white background.

A Quiet Signal

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The First 500

Founding members of Positive Empathetic’s.

The first 500 orders carry a 10% lifetime discount on everything we ever build — code FOUNDER10, yours forever. Reserved for the ones who were here first.

This is a pre-order. Production begins once the first 100 pieces are reserved. Estimated ship date December 15, 2026 — cancel any time before yours ships for a full refund.

Not a sale. A founding place among the first Positive Empathetic’s.

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This is what showing up looks like

Black and white photograph of a man in a plaid overshirt seated on a bench in a dark room, a beaded watch on his wrist.
Positive Empathetic's Matte Gold Beaded Watch, 38mm riverstone red dial — worn, angled view
Woman dressed in black seated on a teal bench in a plant-filled room, one hand at her face, a beaded watch on her wrist.
Blonde woman in a cream coat seated on a teal bench among plants beside a neon sign, a beaded watch on her wrist.