i actually mis-spoke. Looking back at my order, it went through at around 12am on the 27th - and was delivered via UPS on the 30th.
Could be that I called Apple and whined a bit about ordering at 12:03am on the 10th and getting a mid-May shipment date. Maybe they flagged my AppleID and the next watch I ordered they fast tracked...?
You never know. Maybe you just got lucky.