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 Posted: Mon Feb 6th, 2012 04:08 pm
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Hey Everyone! Im going to be posting this around on the various Olivier Threads out there, so if you start to experience deja vu, dont worry!

Yesterday there was a recall announced for Helson bronze cases and Benarus is currently planning to announce the same for some of their bronze morays. The bronze alloy they had received from the manufacturer was NOT the CuSn8 they had been told and they are doing great things to take care of their customers, hats off to them and their great CS. I just want to assure everyone here that we are NOT in the same situation, our cases are CuSn8, german made and looks exactly how you would expect CuSn8 to look, and age. I have now sourced CuSn8 from both Germany and from here locally in Redondo Beach where I have my buckles made, and they both look the same; they start as a bright gold tone that darkens and patinas into a very nice darker brown. This is exactly how the bronze PAM 382 also appears [some of these photos belong to great WIS PifPaf!], and well as Paiste cymbals, both known to be made from CuSn8 bronze, attached here are some pictures of new and old CuSn8.







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Had the pleasure today with meeting up with an Olivier fan all the way from North Carolina, Randy! His work took him to within just a few miles of us here in Redondo, so we met up during some of his down time before he had to catch his flight back. I was able to tell him apart from the crowd by his choice of watch, he was sporting bronze moray with that really fun red sunbrushed dial. We talked for a while while he checked out the prototypes live and in the bronze. Randy noted how much he liked how the patina was developing on the Olivier bronzes, something he had trouble with on his moray. We BOTH forgot to bring along any decent cameras, but my camera phone didn't do too poorly, enjoy these two snaps.



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All 3 pieces look really cool.bravo.gif

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I actually like the patina on the Moray ThumbsUp02.gif
...Roland do you have an ET on the completion of the watches?
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 Posted: Sat Feb 25th, 2012 03:38 pm
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Hey 3T!

Its been just a few days over 2 months since our debut, and today I have an huge update for everyone; We are SOLD OUT of our first batch of watches!!! Any new orders will now be apart of our next run of watches for release a few months after this first batch, or early Summer 2012! Everyone who has pre-ordered, thank you so much for your absolutely amazing support. I can't wait until the spring to get this first batch out and onto wrists around the world. On that note, I am currently visiting with our manufacturers, so my communications might be a few days behind. The great news is we are on schedule, woo hoo!

A great big thank you from us at Olivier,
Roland

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that's great news roland,Congrats!ThumbsUp02.gif
...so where are you...overseas in HK?

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Really great news Roland !

I look forward to my bronze... ThumbsUp02.gif

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Roland,
Per your recent email, is it true that the watches are not CuSn8 Bronze ?

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Johnny P wrote:
Roland,
Per your recent email, is it true that the watches are not CuSn8 Bronze ?

OOOPS...Another Asian bump?homerthinks.gif

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is this true Roland?..does anyone have a copy of the e-mail?

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That would interest me too!

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This is the portion I ws able to copy and paste. There was a small chart showing the compounds that I could not pick up. I had tought I saved it all but not so.

some of you may know who follow this thread very closely, this last week the case manufacturers had issues with their latest batch of CuSn8 bronze exhibiting impurities during the finishing stage. I cant tell you how happy I have been with the manufacturer though, they contacted me immediately and not only presented me with this news, but also with a few very surprising and welcomed solutions. They of course did not want to be using sub-par bronze for our cases, and were concerned first that if this latest batch of CuSn8 was exhibiting impurities in the finishing stage, that they also worried that perhaps the first batches were somehow compromised as well. Talk about 1 bad apple spoiling the bunch. Of course no one wants to waste time doing a lengthly recall, and because they are warrantying these parts for 1 year, they want to do it right the first time around. The best way around this? "Well of course, its to use a higher quality, and more technically advanced bronze alloy." Of course, I agree  . They offered immediately to create a new set of cases using a higher quality, more tech bronze. The differences in the composition are small, but the result is a harder, more resistant bronze alloy. I believe this is the same concept behind Aquadive's bronze mixture. For example, here is a bronze comps they offer as a variant of CuSn8 :

This is where the chart would not copy......


You end up with an alloy that is more technically advanced and resistant as a result of the added elements iron and nickel, even in such small amounts. These mixtures are more expensive, but the manufacturer is offering to do this as a free upgrade!! These are in-house alloys, they want to proceed only using alloys they have their own hand in creating. We had always anticipated a may shipping date, and our manufactures are aware of the time frame. Its working out to have a minimal impact on the Olivier time frame, if at all. Its great to know how seriously they are taking our limited order in the grand scheme of things!

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