Did ANY Stainless Steel Buyers get a ship date faster than May 13?

[madsci954]

SS with sport band, 4/24-5/8. Link bracelet was delayed from the get go.

 

[zacheryjensen]

I did this same thing for my husband's watch. Got the same dates as you, I bet. Link band shipping 4/29-5/12?

I wonder why ordering them separately gets us the whole watch combo faster? I'm glad it works out that way.

I'm just assuming it's as simple as, they have X boxes of watch + band packed up (or expected to be packed up) and more than X boxes of just the band separate.

In the end, I won't be surprised if it all ships faster than expected. I had a thought that all the ranging and padding that is atypical of Apple represents an unwillingness to outright predict what people want entirely and gives them a chance to do some last minute rejiggering of their distribution across the models.

I guess we'll see.