There is also a more general survey posted on our forum. You have to be a member of the forum to be able to vote, but joining is free! Please note that if you are a Plankowner the e-mail survey is the one that you should take. Any Plankowner entries in the general survey will not be incorporated into the Plankowner survey.

As I noted elsewhere we have been continuing to do the more time consuming work of re-working the watches (e.g. stems and hand alignment) and regulation, which is still on schedule. On that basis we have watches up to Prebuilt #125 and Custom #C64 in process and to the point of either requiring the last 2 or all three of the following:

1. Final clean up of the inside of the case (This is a check we do to make sure there is no lint or other small foreign material inside the case before we close it.) and pressure testing
2. Installation of the bezel and bracelet
3. Pick and pack parts kit as required

These last three steps are easier to control time wise and go more or less according to plan. As a result its easier to make up this time later on. This is why, if we ran out of time during the week, we continued to start new Pre-order watches without necessarily finishing the watches that were currently in process. We expect to complete the re-work required, regulation and final testing on the last two pieces of the Pre-order this week. During this week we will also continue to finish the watches that we have started previously. As noted above this puts us on track to complete the deliveries of all of the Pre-order watches and parts kits by the end of February.

General Order Deliveries:

We will begin delivery of the General Order watches by the 3rd week of March. (Please note that the lag is a result of our trip to Basel for the watch fair from March 7th through March 17th). For the General Order we are still working on the scheduling. We are trying to balance efficiency with the actual order in which the orders were placed. As far as time frame is concerned our target is to complete the delivery of the General Order watches by the Middle of October.

If you didn’t make it onto the pre-order but would like to receive updates on this project or any potential openings in the pre-order please use the following form to add yourself to the mailing list. Please note that this mailing list will only be used for the Project GMT. You will not receive any additional mailings from Mk II. To sign up for our general mailing list please use the link at the top right hand corner of the site.

(Yes I am aware that the word project is currently misspelled in the E-boutique :p – we will have that fixed in a little bit.)

The following are the target dimensions for the Project 300:

- Diameter: 41.40 mm

- Length: 48.75 – 49.25 mm

- Thickness: 12.00 – 13.00 mm

The length of the watch is still a range and represents one that I believe that we can safely achieve without distorting the proportions of the design. The range will provide the necessary freedom to tailor the length to the diameter. I will be doing my best to make the watch’s overall length as short as aesthetics will allow. The top end of the range (49.25 mm) can be safely assumed to be a hard and fast limit to the maximum length of the watch.

Coming up:

1. I will update the Project 300 page later this week
2. I will begin work on the survey for the name of the project. The target launch date for this next survey will be the first half of the week of the 23rd.

My apologies for the extended delay in getting these results determined and published. Along with the holiday rush in November/December I have been struggling with the Pre-Order Kingston shipments and ultimately finding a balanced work schedule that would allow progress on watch deliveries as well as design work. Fortunately progress has been made on both fronts. Based on the new work schedule that I have been using for the last couple of weeks I should be back on the forum and directing the open projects this week.

Yes there will be a 12-hr GMT version of the sapphire bezel as well. However the production of the sapphire inlays has such a high scrap rate that we will be waiting until we have the parts literally in hand before we launch the 12-hr GMT variant.

The new Type I-B model is available in:

• Non-Date
• Day/Date
• Date only

configurations. The new models also are available with the new bracelet option. To shop and learn more about the new model please see the E-boutique here. Later we will post more photos of the different configurations available. For the last couple of months and through January we just don’t have the spare production capacity to mock up the samples for photos.

For those customers that pre-ordered the Paradive when it was originally launched in 2010 we still owe you a parts kit and bracelet. We will be contacting those customers via e-mail in March. The longer lead time for the original pre-order customers is so that we can get enough bracelet Paradives completed that we can provide you with support and guidance during the installation of the bracelet. Each bracelet and production batch has its own quirks that we need to work through and understand before allowing someone to self-install a bracelet.

FYI:
B: Diameter: 41.75 mm / Length: 49.00 – 49.49 mm
C: Diameter: 41.25 mm / Length: 48.50 – 48.99 mm

I will have a final answer later this week.

Happy Holidays and Happy New Year to everyone!

Click on any of the images below to purchase from our E-boutique.