This Sunday August 1st, marks the communicated time for the Tourbillon 1 orders to close.
Unfortunately time has been against us in this final stretch not the least because of Covid restrictions having created a lot of back and forth, thus making events and launch dates unpredictable.
Just this week we were finally able to open our Taipei 101 location after a lockdown has been lifted. We just wrapped up a live virtual event there, but we see it will be a challenge to accommodate each persons time schedule to view the watches with just two days to go. Additionally we are introducing a new retailer “The Limited Edition” in the UK who has not yet received samples to present to their community. We have postponed our Shanghai location and can now finally serve the community there in August. The locations above have community members that have been waiting to join last minute events and we are doing what we can given that the time is ticking.
As an independent watchmaker us along with our partners rely heavily on our communities support.
Today we are hovering at around 100 tourbillons sold. This is less than we had planned for pre-pandemic, however we are extremely grateful for the support all of you have provided us during these challenging times.
The cost of engineering and product development shot into the stratosphere when we decided to take the Tourbillon 1 in-house, but we kept pricing at 7,490 CHF. Although we are far away from recouping our cost it was a project that opened a lot of eyes.
With regards to the above we are asking if anyone is opposed to us extending this order timeline until September 1st, 2021?
A little extension with your blessing would help us a lot in making our beautiful product visible to some more people. A few more sales would also help us get closer to the expected pre-pandemic breakeven. This would also make our suppliers a little happier with some added units in production as they have done so much for all of us. Since we likely will stay far below 200 pcs for this watch, we can still say “very exclusive” indeed😉.
Every community member plays a vital role in helping us bring exciting projects to the world of watchmaking and thus we wanted to reach out to you for permission.
Simply let us know in the comments your feedback.
Thank you
Landon Stirling
Thank you very much for extending. This slipped off my radar but it gave me a chance to get my order in