February 28th: Stingray and other news
Sorry I haven’t posted pictures yet of the 12-3-6-9 dial and the new hands yet. I have been busy working on the Stingray ordering page and trying to get it functional so that pre-order customers can begin working on their options. I hope to have this up later this week but we’ll see. A lot of new artwork had to be produced for the new dials and hands that will be available.
I will be closing the pre-order option very very soon. I don’t want to take as many pre-orders as I did last time with the Blackwater which I think contributed to a lot of the communication problems. At the same time I want to keep the number of pre-orders lower in order to minimize the impact it will have on customer service levels. Currently I have enough orders to keep me busy pretty much all summer since I also have to leave capacity to deliver our other watches and products.
In the next 2 weeks or so I hope to announce our next watch….the Sea Fighter. Its a diver with a crown at 4 o’clock based on the BUND diver introduced in the mid-70s. This watch is meant to fill in the gap that the Seiko watches used to occupy in our line-up. I had meant to announce this earlier but pushed it off to wait for the hands which arrived sooner than expected. I look forward to hearing your feedback on our latest offering. The launch of this product will scheduled and handled slightly differently than previous models in order to minimize its impact on our capacity.
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Can’t wait to see the dial and hands to be offered.
Comment by Mike Predmore — February 28, 2007 @ 6:04 pm
My pre-order made the cutoff and I could not be more excited about a new Stingray! Maybe I should have ordered TWO! Can’t wait to build it up to my specs. Thanks Bill. CSE, WA State
Comment by CHAD — March 2, 2007 @ 9:52 am
I hope you will consider adding some kind of cursive/italic script to your dial(s). One of the beauties of vintage divers such as the ff is the script on the dial–something you might consider. I guess it wouldn’t fit your possible Explorer project and it is too late for the Stingray, I assume, but I’d really like to see your take on it.
Love your work, and I am sure your watches will be appreciated even more in the years to come.
-matt
Comment by matthb — March 17, 2007 @ 11:10 am