Saturday March 25th
Finished casing the first four MMT’s tonight. Not enough time I am affraid to regulate them in 6 positions to ship by the morning. Spent a lot of time dialing in details for the assemblies to come like the stem length - which is a lot of back and forth, cutting, grinding and fitting. Then you fit a few to make sure the number you arrived at will work not for just one watch but all of them, taking into account the variances among the parts being fitted together. I still hope to have a few more ready in addition to these first four ready to go by Monday.
I also decided to skip shipping on Saturday morning, as is my norm, so that I can save some time to finish more watches and orders before I leave. I leave town on Tuesday and rather than do a run to the post office Saturday and Monday I decided to delay all the shipments until Monday, which will save me about 4 hours prepping and packing orders.
During the week I started to comb through the vendors that will be exhibiting this year at Baselworld. The sheer number of vendors is quite mind boggling. I hope to add some capabilities as well as to find suppliers that can do some more exotic case types like cases shielded from magnetism and the like. I will post a report and any pictures I can take when I return. I will be back in PA on the 9th of April.
Some other product updates:
* Milsub date dials have arrived. I still need to QC them before putting them up for sale on the site.
* Stainless steel inserts are done. They will ship to me after I get back.
* HA3 GMT inserts are also done. These will ship with the steel ones so nothing in hand yet.
**Please note that the stainless steel and the HA3 inserts’ costs have gone up so the price will be going up as well. The price will officially go up sometime between the 6th and the 10th of April so if you want to purchase one before the increase now is the time.
As an aside if you haven’t seen/used “Google Earth” it’s a fantastic tool. I downloaded it so that I could see what Basel looked like and get a better idea of what the neighborhoods around my hotel and the convention halls looked like. It appears I will be able to walk between my hotel and the convention halls if the weather is nice. And fortunately for me the hotel-ship that I will be staying on will have a view of a park and what I think is downtown Basel, which was more than I was expecting. I was expecting a view of a nice container port and perhaps some oil pipelines, which is what you would see if someone offered to put you up on a ship here on the East coast of the US.
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