Chilkey and Wuque Studio launch SF60 HE anniversary keyboard with aluminum keycaps
An anniversary collab turns SF60 HE into a $179 aluminum 60% board with aluminum keycaps and 8K polling. Fewer than 100 international units are set aside.
Chilkey and Wuque Studio have turned Wuque’s 6th anniversary into something more substantial than a commemorative badge. The SF60 HE is being pitched as a premium 60% board with 64 keys, wired-only connectivity, a full-aluminum case and aluminum keycaps, a package that pushes well past standard gaming-board territory and straight into enthusiast build quality.
The name follows Chilkey’s earlier Super Force 90, with SF60 standing for Super Force 60. That branding matters because the board is not being framed as a one-off merch item. It is presented as the result of years of custom-keyboard, keycap and switch development folded into a prebuilt Hall Effect keyboard that still aims at the hobby’s tuning-heavy side.
The spec sheet is aimed squarely at that audience. Chilkey lists the WS Poseidon Hall Effect switch, 8K polling, 0.001 mm rapid-trigger sensitivity, a 256K-per-key scan rate and 0.08 ms latency. It also gives the SF60 HE a gasket mount with an aluminum plate, a 6.5-degree typing angle and a 17.4 mm front height, while the web-based software supports adjustable actuation point, rapid trigger, dynamic keystroke and Snappy Tappy.
The aluminum keycaps are the clearest signal that this is meant to be a statement piece, not just another magnetic board. Chilkey says the caps use infilled enamel legends and designs, and that their manufacturing chain runs through high-pressure casting, degating, polishing, laser engraving, painting, enamel filling, baking and stem bonding. The company says the mold alone took more than six months to fine-tune, and that it tested three to four methods and machines in the later production steps to keep the pass rate high. At $179, the SF60 HE is priced like a serious enthusiast buy, not a novelty, but the international launch is capped at fewer than 100 units.
That scarcity looks less like hype than a reflection of demand already proven in China. Chilkey says the board first launched there in late April, when nearly 3,000 units, including 1,000 in stock and about 2,000 preorders, sold out in under 15 minutes. Some international units are already moving through local partners, and select colors are headed to a U.S. warehouse, expected to arrive in about two weeks.
The timing lands in a Hall Effect market that is getting crowded fast, from Wuque Studio’s own Flux60 HE positioning to high-profile releases from Keychron, Corsair and Cherry XTRFY. SF60 HE arrives as a test case for where the category goes next: whether magnetic performance alone is enough, or whether premium materials and custom-board execution are what finally make a 60% HE board feel like a milestone.
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