R.T. Custer

Co Founder and CEO

R.T. Custer is the founder of Vortic Watch, one of the only American-made watch companies that help resurrect antique watches by combining vintage internals with modern wristwatch cases.

R.T. is an entrepreneur living in Fort Collins, Colorado with his girlfriend and 2 young sons. R.T. grew up on a Christmas Tree Farm near Reading, Pennsylvania, and attended Penn State University where he studied Industrial Engineering. Besides helping to run the family farm, his first entrepreneurial journey was a franchise of College Works Painting, an MLM in the exterior house painting business. R.T. started Vortic Watch Company in college and has grown it to a 7 figure company through the help of his team and advisors. Vortic manufactures one-of-a-kind wristwatches using antique American pocket watch mechanisms. Vortic’s tagline is “America Wasn’t Assembled, It was Built” because they make one of the only truly American-made wristwatches.