many thanks

Many great responses and ideas. Trust me when I say we tried the watches with many many many crowns and hands and these were the only ones that fit the watch design best. It may not be perfect, but you know, perfect is something very subjective.

We'll take all these comments and try to digest it somehow for our next designs. It's definitely an interesting market and designing a watch from scratch was definitely not the easiest thing to do. To a large degree, the pricepoint of the watches determined the design. On one hand it is great to be totally original, on the other, it's gonna cost alot not just in opening molds for everything but also to do marketing for completely original designs. We felt that it would be easier to launch a watch that people could relate to immediately. We do have a new design that is a total departure from others, but that won't be out for sometime. I'll post some pics once that is ready.

I just saw that a very popular brand of watches started having 0 at the 12H.... guess it's coincidence, but I see the big boys feel it looks ok there too.

The straps are 4.5mm thick and 24mm wide. We will probably offer them as AM straps. 26mm straps look really good but didn't fit the case design.