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For the 20th time on this thread by everyone, if confused please re read the replies to this okay lol moving on just got off the phone speaking with management about this, APPLE WATCHES WILL BE DELIVERED ON SATURDAY, I REPEAT APPLE WATCHES WILL BE DELIVERED ON SATURDAY, spread this like wild fire. All orders have next day air, yes yes I know it says standard shipping on order status or whatever but they do aka meaning anything that comes into tonight can and will be shipped out on Saturday. Apple has an agreement with UPS on this.

YES I can CONFIRM this is accurate
 
What we don't know is how many they already had made versus how many they can make in a day. So we can't assume the current rate of filling orders will hold. There may be a week-long quiet period before the next batch, if the factories are still catching up.
 
Based on what I've seen, my estimate is that the line for space grey sports 42 mm is moving at about 10 second increments per day. That is, all orders confirmed between 12:03:40-12:03:50 are processing today. Tomorrow it'll be orders confirmed between 12:03:50 and 12:04:00 and so on.

I say this because at this time yesterday, someone whose confirmation came through at 12:03:30 was JUST getting charged. This morning, someone whose confirmation came through at 12:03.40 was JUST getting charged. Unless there's some magical surge in production, I don't think it's going to speed up. My order was confirmed at 12:04:38... so I might not get my watch until mid to end of next week, which sort of makes sense considering that I had a 4/24-5/8 window and someone who received confirmation at 12:04:45 had a mid-May window. Mid-May confirmation people will get their watches early but probably not until late next week.

If you're in the 12:05:xx to 12:10:xx and above range, relax because you've got a long wait ahead of you and you shouldn't even be wasting your time refreshing your order page and getting anxious.

My confirmation was 03:04:24 EST and I got charged today and preparing for shipment now.
 
My confirmation was 03:04:24 EST and I got charged today and preparing for shipment now.

Your mail server's time must be off then. I've seen a steady confirmation from the 12:03:30s to 12:03:40s in the last 24 hours. Your confirmation time seems uncharacteristically high. Also, are you in the U.S. or some other country? 38mm or 42mm? Space gray? Each region and each watch configuration has their own line. I speak for U.S. only and 42mm sg sport.
 
How long has it been taking to go from processing to preparing for shipment after CC charges go through?

Mine went through right away. At least when I saw my phone notification of my charge I then went to check my order status in the apple store and it said preparing for shipment. So within 30 seconds for me.
 
Based on what I've seen, my estimate is that the line for space grey sports 42 mm is moving at about 10 second increments per day. That is, all orders confirmed between 12:03:40-12:03:50 are processing today. Tomorrow it'll be orders confirmed between 12:03:50 and 12:04:00 and so on.

I say this because at this time yesterday, someone whose confirmation came through at 12:03:30 was JUST getting charged. This morning, someone whose confirmation came through at 12:03.40 was JUST getting charged. Unless there's some magical surge in production, I don't think it's going to speed up. My order was confirmed at 12:04:38... so I might not get my watch until mid to end of next week, which sort of makes sense considering that I had a 4/24-5/8 window and someone who received confirmation at 12:04:45 had a mid-May window. Mid-May confirmation people will get their watches early but probably not until late next week.

If you're in the 12:05:xx to 12:10:xx and above range, relax because you've got a long wait ahead of you and you shouldn't even be wasting your time refreshing your order page and getting anxious.


Not sure how true this theory is, but for what its worth...my 42mm watch was processed finally this morning. Confirmation email time: 12:03:47.
 
Question?

I just got an email an hour or so ago saying thank you for your order with the June ship date still BUT I got another one right after saying they updated my billing info on the order, these two emails are the only action Ive seen from apple since preorder date, so that's got to be a good sign right? They must mean they seen my order to update the billing info?
 
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