http://www.blogmkiiwatches.com/main Blog Site for MKII Watches Sat, 06 Mar 2010 22:28:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Just wanted to give you guys a heads up about communication over the next week or so. We have a quite a number of watches and parts orders to ship before I have to fly out on the 16th. I haven't even started on the watches that I need to ... http://www.blogmkiiwatches.com/main/2010/03/05/the-next-9-days/ I wanted to start doing more reports from the workbench about the watches I am working on and have completed. If this is of interest I will keep posting these so let me know. Tonight, among other things, I prepped the cases for 2 QUAD10s, and a DLC Sea Fighter that is ... http://www.blogmkiiwatches.com/main/2010/03/04/what-i-have-been-up-to-lately/ Here are some pics of what the final watch will look like and a production update: * The cases and bracelets are expected to be ready by the end of this month * Movements are in stock * Crowns and case tubes are going out to the case manufacturer before I leave for ... http://www.blogmkiiwatches.com/main/2010/03/01/project-kingston-update/ ...I will be back "online" this evening. Basically I am running on time now according to the revised schedule. The last two days were filled with watch work and some family obligations. The family obligations kept me away from e-mail and the forum.I have been "trying" to take it easy ... http://www.blogmkiiwatches.com/main/2010/02/24/with-some-luck/ From March 16th through the 29th I will be traveling to Basel for the annual tradeshow. Kindly note that while we will be taking orders during that time we will not be sending out order confirmations or shipping orders at that time. The last day to place an order and ... http://www.blogmkiiwatches.com/main/2010/02/19/travel-notice-baselworld/ Saw the doctor over the weekend and everything is under control. I am taking some anitbiotics with cocktail of OTC drugs and seem to be fine. Luckily it seems I did not catch the flu. I just have a sinus infection that was caught early. Most likely brought on from ... http://www.blogmkiiwatches.com/main/2010/02/16/status-update-4/ I will be returning e-mails and phone calls early next week. The family is doing much better but I feel there is a good chance I am coming down with something. Given that I am spending all of my time shipping as many orders as I can. I will be ... http://www.blogmkiiwatches.com/main/2010/02/12/e-mails-and-phone-calls/ I went out to the post office today to try make a shipment to find it closed. Based on the road conditions I saw while I was out it seems likely that the post office may be closed tomorrow as well. I will continue to work on orders and attempt ... http://www.blogmkiiwatches.com/main/2010/02/11/weather-related-delay/ Status update: I have been in a self-imposed communication blackout trying to finish up the last of the backlogged orders. Orders have been going out but not fast enough to eliminate the backlog. Over the last two weeks I have not met with much success in getting the final group of ... http://www.blogmkiiwatches.com/main/2010/02/09/status-update-and-the-end-of-an-era/ This morning I found out that my web host is dropping our credit card processor (VeriSign). Apparently this became effective yesterday but they neglected to tell anyone that it was going to happen. So we still have a VeriSign account in good standing but our web site stopped talking to ... http://www.blogmkiiwatches.com/main/2010/01/07/credit-card-processing-via-the-web/