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Update: 44mm SBTi with black leather loop. Ordered 09/21 around 2:30pm (PST). Got my Shipping noticed from Apple late last night with UPS tracking. They haven’t updated delivery date as of this post.

Those in the know, I suspect this where it sits in limbo for a few days in Shanghai?

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My watch has an October 14-21 delivery date. Custom blue with cactus band, looks amazing. Today I was curious about the watch so I went online and tried to order it, now it simply says "not available" with no anticipation of when it will. Are they really so backordered they can't even give a delivery date?
 
So, for those who are at the beginning of the shipping process, here’s an example of a timeline that might allay some anxiety if you seem “stuck” at a given point. I just takes some time, especially in China. Once it got out of China, it was pretty smooth:

Left Jiaxing, CN, 9/18/20, 11:55 pm.
Arrived Shanghai, CN, 9/19/20, 12:10 am.
Left Shanghai, CN, 9/23/20, 6:00 am (loooong delay there)
Left Incheon, KR, 9/23/20, 10:10 am
Left Anchorage 9/23/20, 2:55 pm (date change helped there!)
Left Louisville 9/24/20, 4:49 am
Arrived MSP, destination city, 9/24/20, 7:10 am
Delivery 9/24/20
My weirdest thing my AW left Incheon last night left night But hasn’t showed up anywhere since.
 
I am getting very restless and checking my tracking almost hourly for updates. Ordered my Series 6 within minutes after the Apple Event ended and got a delivery date from Apple of October 8th. It's shipping to Ireland with DHL. I received a revised date of October 2nd once it shipped on the 22nd. DHL tracking is currently on "Shipment information received - Eindhoven - Netherlands".

This is torture!! 😭
 
My Graphite SS with Milanese loop (9/25-9/30) which had showed no movement since launch day just moved from Processing to Preparing to Shipped in a matter of an hour. Coming from California via FedEx for delivery tomorrow!

Mine finally says preparing to ship also but nothing from UPS or Fedex yet. I also ordered Graphite with ML and had the 9/25-9/30 ship dates.
 
My Graphite SS with Milanese loop (9/25-9/30) which had showed no movement since launch day just moved from Processing to Preparing to Shipped in a matter of an hour. Coming from California via FedEx for delivery tomorrow!
Wow, that’s really fast how is that happening
 
confirmed with a friend on the inside that if you used the design creator and didn't get a non-standard, odds are that it will come from China. If not, it will come domestic.
 
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I am getting very restless and checking my tracking almost hourly for updates. Ordered my Series 6 within minutes after the Apple Event ended and got a delivery date from Apple of October 8th. It's shipping to Ireland with DHL. I received a revised date of October 2nd once it shipped on the 22nd. DHL tracking is currently on "Shipment information received - Eindhoven - Netherlands".

This is torture!! 😭
Yep thats the same status and perceived delivery date as mine. Waiting for shipping to England. It will be next week before we hear anything as those that are expecting delivery on the 25th and 28th are only just getting notifications from DHL Eindhoven.
 
confirmed with a friend on the inside that if you used the design creator and didn't get a non-standard, odds are that it will come from China. If not, it will come domestic.

Of course they would need to actually *have* the standard configs in stock domestically. I did see a few scattered reports in this thread of shipments via fedex, meaning domestic, but most were from China, even for standard configs.

But I'm sure Apple's domestic warehouses are also getting shipments of various configs from China. Maybe even on the same flights as everyone else's watches.
 
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Of course that would mean that they actually *have* the standard configs in stock domestically. I did see a few scattered reports in this thread of shipments via fedex, meaning domestic, but most were from China, even for standard configs.

But I'm sure Apple's domestic warehouses are also getting shipments of various configs from China. Maybe even on the same flights as everyone else's watches.
It’s all over the board I guess
 
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Yep thats the same status and perceived delivery date as mine. Waiting for shipping to England. It will be next week before we hear anything as those that are expecting delivery on the 25th and 28th are only just getting notifications from DHL Eindhoven.
My delivery date was September 25-29. I am in Spain. I bought it 5-10 minutes from the presentation, and everything is still the same, in Eindhoven. Nothing has changed. It is hopeless.
 
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