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UPDATE 31.05.2012: Please let me inform you some updates of the last days. :-) Watch Prototype Arrival: We are expecting our prototypes to arrive end of June. As we are receiving 10 prototypes in total I´m sure you will see some previews of the watches in July. After arrivial of the watches we will make of course the first photos shooting of the prototypes, but short after that we will send the watches to the company who is hardening our cases. This process will take a pretty long time (approx. 2 weeks)! I don´t know if I could survive without them for such long time. :-) Bracelet Prototype Arrival: We hope to receive the bracelet prototypes also at the end June. As well the bracelet prototypes will be hardened. Bracelet length: Our bracelet will be VERY LONG! With 210mm length incl. clasp I believe it is the longest bracelet in the market. Add the length of the watch (approx. 54mm) and even your 10.4" wrist could wear our new watches!!!! So lots of spare links to adjust to EVERY wrist. WR Testing: As we were the first micro brand officially certifying the WR of our watches we will continue with this open communication. We will test the WR of the watches up to their maximum or stop latest at 3000M. :-) This should be enough for everyone. :-) Watch Box: Up today I was planning to use our standard H2O KALMAR watch box with 4 compartments. We are checking right now a hard-shell case alternative similar to the PELI case 1150. Our hard-shell case prototype is in the air right now and we will receive it next week. The decission will be made in next week. CNC Machine: Our first CNC machine will arrive next week. I´m really looking forward to that as this is our first step into own manufacturing of our watches. But we are German: One step after the other! :-)

After many long nights the past days and weeks and a lot of preparation and rendering the pre-order for the H2O ORCA series just opened today. :-)

The H2O ORCA DRESS seems to be the most wanted design between all H2O ORCA models. It might become our "volume model". Looking the last days at all my renderings from this model I felt that the gap between the lugs and the bracelet/strap is too big and should be reduced. We have improved the design of the H2O ORCA slightly to reduce the visible gab between the case and strap/bracelet in the following way. In my opinion it was possible to make something good even better and the Dress looks now perfect (for me ). DOWNLOAD NEW H2O PRODUCT CONFIGURATOR PSD FILE DOWNLOAD NEW H2O PRODUCT CONFIGURATOR PSD FILE / ZIP compressed An explanation how to use the configurator could be found on our home page: http://www.h2o-watch.com/news Here comes a short animation of the "old" and NEW version of the H2O ORCA DRESS:

@vrcan: Yes that´s true! I believe we sold maybe just 2-3 watches into the Czech Republic. But the H2O Kalmar was just our starting product. We have our own engineer for the construction of our watches and we will stay innovative. :-) At least the H2O ORCA shows that there are fresh ideas also in the micro brand section. We will not copy 1:1 designs from the past, but will go our own unique design route. The ORCA system will stay from now on for a long time and will be refreshed with new outer and inner cases. This allows our customers a really inexpensive upgrade time by time, because they could use the inner case for their different outer cases. Have a nice day! Clemens

I don´t know you have seen already our new 360° videos of the H2O ORCA DIVE and H2O ORCA CLASSIC? Took about 48 hours to render just one video on an 8-core xeon cpu. At least the room was quite warm. :-) http://youtu.be/MJh4o9aW6fQ?hd=1 http://youtu.be/lDMzNZIh_KM?hd=1

Hi Gougy, Thank you very much for your warm welcome. Unfortunately I don´t speak an word Czech, but Google translator is my best friend. :-) Please let me know all your questions in English language. I will try to answer as fast and precise as possible. Greetings Clemens

Hello ChronoMag fans, please let me shortly introduce myself: My name is Clemens and I´m the founder of H2O in Germany. I would be glad to answer all your questions directly in your forum. Thank you so much for your attention to our new H2O ORCA system! Greetings from cold North Germany! Clemens