2010年12月20日星期一

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Basically it comes down to the fact that many manufacturers (like in the US) are short staffed but in the case of the watch industry they can’t train up enough people fast enough to fill the void left by the fallout from the Lehman Brothers collapse in Sept. 2008. The box shown below is all that we had (about 200 pieces)After 2 weeks of urgent communication the crowns were confirmed to have been lost and I reached out to the crown supplier to find out the turnaround time. I was preparing for the worst, that is to say a lead time of replica Bell & Ross MGF113 Men's Watches about 3-6 months because Christmas is fast approaching and as I noted above anyone worth working with is now jammed with work.Here the cases are being laid out on a workbench so that I can begin applying a protective coating to the casebodies before their trip to Switzerland.Here half of the cases are covered with protective paint.

2010年12月13日星期一

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