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moonboom 3T WIS
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Oscar, thank you for your permission our new H2O ORCA series to the T3 fans. We have listened very carefully during the last months to your voice in the forums and the several, very active threads. We considered all your requests and ideas as much as possible for our new H2O ORCA watch system and have, of course, also included some DNA from the H2O Kalmar series. In result H2O developed the all new H2O ORCA series including an innovative customization concept with user exchangeable inner & outer watch case. The Concept: Create a new look of your H2O ORCA watch within seconds by simply
 The Design: The design and construction has been made entirely in-house by H2O with our own German engineer, who is a dive watch enthusiast since many years with over 24 dive watches and an active member of a German watch forum. We have developed for the H2O ORCA some unique patent pending solutions. As we are working with our own engineer we could speed up our developments and will extend the H2O ORCA system continuously. In short time we will receive our first CNC milling machine to be able to start manufacturing parts in our German office. The Main Features:
But now the watch cases: H2O ORCA DIVE:  H2O ORCA CLASSIC:  H2O ORCA DRESS:  H2O ORCA VINTAGE:  H2O ORCA MONO:  I hope you like what you saw. Looking forward to your comments. Bye Clemens H2O watch Team Last edited on Tue Mar 27th, 2012 12:28 pm by moonboom |
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Gregger 3T WIS 
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Love the h2o dress with that funky bezel... |
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Hammerfjord Moderator 
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The "classic" case with the "dress/vintage" bezel would look great |
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oagaspar Site Founder 
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I really like the new concept of being able to swap out cases Clemens!..all 5 cases are awesome,and I really like the "Mono" case!...Congrats on another awesome creation my friend! |
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Jeep99dad 3T WIS 
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Great concept! Love the dress version!  |
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oagaspar Site Founder
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it's nice to see a divers clasp...what type,or process of hardened steel will be used? |
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moonboom 3T WIS
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oagaspar wrote: it's nice to see a divers clasp...what type,or process of hardened steel will be used?Every watch manufacturer using hardened steel have their own funny name for the same process. It´s even done to my knowledge by the same company. So let me answer our hardening is done by the market leading company. :-) After many days of rendering my 8-core xeon machine finally did it: The H2O ORCA watch system animation. :-) I hope you like it! |
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RussellB 3T WIS
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This looks great, super idea So concept or reality and what sort of pricing are we looking at? |
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Skipdawg 3T WIS 
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One very cool concept and design. |
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moonboom 3T WIS
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RussellB wrote: This looks great, super idea Of course soon reality. The prototypes are already in production. We will start in the 3-digit region. |
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oagaspar Site Founder
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moonboom wrote: RussellB wrote:sounds like a winner Clemens!...can't wait to see the protos!This looks great, super idea |
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afc14284 3T WIS 
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Looks nice.. let's wait and see how much they go for |
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chas1133 3T WIS 
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That shrouded case is no less than awesome! ...and what is the price tag anyway.... Last edited on Wed Apr 4th, 2012 11:57 am by chas1133 |
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Mike T. 3T WIS 
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Wow! This looks like a great project to get in on from the ground up. All of them look great! |
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bigjamesdean 3T WIS
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chas1133 wrote:That shrouded case is no less than awesome! Believe the goal is. to be under 1k |
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bigjamesdean 3T WIS
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This click several of my buttons even with out the change system which is awsome. Heavy lume,ratcheting divers clasp,hardened steel ie Sinns tegmented steel,sandwhich dial(1 version) and hex lug screws.All this for under a grand is just a steal in my book :) |
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moonboom 3T WIS
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I would like to add to the renderings a FIRST impression of our bracelet clasp and it´s decoration. This not the final clasp as we will get bevelling on the clasp sides and also some internal improvements of the mechanism. - Hardened SS 316L with micro-adjustment / 24mm - Clasp will be brushed outside and nearly fully decorated with perlage from the inside  - Improved mechanism to prevent the clasp from unwanted opening - The clasp sides will be bevelled to be weared more comfortably This clasp is a custom and improved version for H2O only. Below you could get a first impression of the perlage of the clasp inside. Important: This is a pure sample to demonstrate the perlage and without the bevelling on the sides!   Last edited on Tue Apr 10th, 2012 09:49 am by moonboom |
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moonboom 3T WIS
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We have published today two new 360° turntable videos of the H2O ORCA DIVE and H2O ORCA CLASSIC case on Oceanictime. The video resolution could be raised up to 720p to see more details. :-) I hope you like what you see! :-) H2O ORCA DIVE H2O ORCA CLASSIC Last edited on Wed Apr 11th, 2012 03:01 pm by moonboom |
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joecb 3T WIS 
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I very much like the classic diver. I like the shorter lugs on this also.. |
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moonboom 3T WIS
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Today we received 20 strap samples for our H2O ORCA series. The leather was purchased by myself in Hamburg, Germany, after more than 4 hours of touching hundreds or even thousands of different calf skins. Fortunately the biggest leather skin wholesaler is just 50 km away from our office and touching the leather makes a big difference instead of just comparing images. Unfortunately the stud is not as I was planning. It should have been a more round vintage version, stamped wave and etched to look at least a 100 years old. We are far away from this goal. Anyway, this might get changed if we should decide to go with a stud attached version.Two leather skins - the dark brown vintage/used leather strap and the light brown leather strap - can´t be used as a standard strap as their skins were way too small! But as we are thinking about an incentive for returning customers from the H2O Kalmar pre-order they might go into production as well. Let´s show the straps!      Last edited on Fri Apr 13th, 2012 02:51 pm by moonboom |
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afc14284 3T WIS
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Pretty nice straps you got there... I respect the fact that H20 not only sells you a high quality piece, but that it also sends a whole lot of extra goodies there. I know this one will be yet another winner Last edited on Mon Apr 16th, 2012 11:27 pm by afc14284 |
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moonboom 3T WIS
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The H2O ORCA hardware has been finalized now: The H2O ORCA Buckle This buckle was the hardest nut in the whole H2O ORCA construction. In result the buckle has become extremely heavy, strong and unique, but comfortably to wear.    |
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Khronos 3T WIS 
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Awesome buckle!!! Well done |
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moonboom 3T WIS
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Thank you for all your comment regarding the H2O ORCA buckle! :-) Here comes something new and often requested: The SS inlays and the flat sapphire front glass BEZEL INLAY: The H2O ORCA series will be offered not only with sapphire bezel inlays, but also with the more robust stainless steel inlays. All inlays are available with the 15sec. or 60sec style. Below I have rendered the H2O ORCA DIVE with the 15sec. SS bezel. Images of the 60sec. inlay will follow later today. FLAT SAPPHIRE FRONT CRYSTAL: The images below shows the flat sapphire front crystal. The first images shows also the 3-dimensional sandwich dial 2.    |
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oagaspar Site Founder
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looks like everything is coming together in a professionally creative fashion Clemens...Congrats! |
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Mike T. 3T WIS
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Looks great! Is there a pre-order set up yet? With straps! |
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moonboom 3T WIS
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The H2O ORCA series offers many possibilities to create your individual watch. The H2O ORCA product configurator based on Adobe Photoshop will allow you to easily combine all possible options and show a "REALTIME" view of your favorite watch design within seconds. All images were rendered in high quality and should give you a perfect impression of your H2O ORCA watch configuration! H2O PRODUCT CONFIGURATOR / ADOBE PHOTOSHOP PSD FILE / uncompressed / 15MB How to use our H2O ORCA product configurator:
- Adobe Photoshop / Elements / Lightroom - GIMP / http://www.gimp.org / MAC + Windows / free software - Paint.net / Paint.NET - Free Software for Digital Photo Editing / Windows only / free software Install additionally the PSD Plugin Paint.NET PSD PluginAll product options are placed on separate layer in the H2O ORCA PSD fileBy hiding or showing certain layer for the case / dial / hands / front glass / bezel / bezel inlay you could configure your individual watch in seconds |
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moonboom 3T WIS
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The H2O ORCA DRESS seems to be the most wanted design between all H2O ORCA models. It might become our "volume model". Looking the last days at all my renderings from this model I felt that the gap between the lugs and the bracelet/strap is too big and should be reduced. We have improved the design of the H2O ORCA DRESS slightly to reduce the visible gap between the case and strap/bracelet in the following way. In my opinion it was possible to make something good even better and the DRESS looks now perfect (for me  ). DOWNLOAD NEW H2O PRODUCT CONFIGURATOR PSD FILE DOWNLOAD NEW H2O PRODUCT CONFIGURATOR PSD FILE / ZIP compressed Here comes a short animation of the "old" and NEW version of the H2O ORCA DRESS:  Last edited on Tue May 1st, 2012 07:04 am by moonboom |
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Hammerfjord Moderator
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Great look! |
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MrMayface 3T WIS
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What a great improvement. I'm so ready for one of these. |
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moonboom 3T WIS
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I have prepared an image (9200 x 3200 pixel!) showing the brushing directions and polished areas. HERE is the link! |
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moonboom 3T WIS
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Today I have updated the H2O ORCA section with new product pages as preparation for the pre-order start. For those of you who are interested into H2O Orca: I´m expecting to open the pre-order in 4-7 days from today. Of course there will be a special for returning H2O Kalmar customers. |
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Mike T. 3T WIS
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I am very excited to see the final results for the pre-order...along with straps! Hopefully I can afford it! |
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moonboom 3T WIS
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I´m sure the H2O ORCA won´t burn a too deep hole into your pocket. I have realized that we have never shown the case back of the H2O ORCA series. This time there will be no optional display case back, because: The SAPPHIRE DISPLAY CASE BACK is STANDARD accessory for the H2O ORCA series! (The rendering shows some distortions at the border of the sapphire glas and the movement has not been included into the rendering) We also plan to have once again Super-LumiNova on the rotor of the movement like we did for the Kalmar. Not required to survive in the depth, but a nice detail to look at. |
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MrMayface 3T WIS
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moonboom wrote:I´m sure the H2O ORCA won´t burn a too deep hole into your pocket.Looking good. |
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moonboom 3T WIS
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The H2O ORCA product configurator was quite successful with more than 2500 downloads and MANY watch configurations shown here! THANKS to YOU!!! I have taken some time to create a new H2O ORCA watch configurator with a front view. I hope these two configurators together are allowing you to "easily" assemble your watches for our H2O ORCA pre-order, which will start soon. Download link for the new H2O ORCA PRODUCT CONFIGURATOR FRONT VIEW  Download link for the new H2O ORCA PRODUCT CONFIGURATOR FRONT VIEW If you require a short description how to open the file, please visit our homepage: LINK |
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moonboom 3T WIS
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After all the long nights and weeks of preparation and rendering I really overlooked to officially open the pre-order for the H2O ORCA!   |
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moonboom 3T WIS
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UPDATE 31.05.2012: Please let me inform you some updates of the last days. :-) Watch Prototype Arrival: We are expecting our prototypes to arrive end of June. As we are receiving 10 prototypes in total I´m sure you will see some previews of the watches in July. After arrivial of the watches we will make of course the first photos shooting of the prototypes, but short after that we will send the watches to the company who is hardening our cases. This process will take a pretty long time (approx. 2 weeks)! I don´t know if I could survive without them for such long time. :-) Bracelet Prototype Arrival: We hope to receive the bracelet prototypes also at the end June. As well the bracelet prototypes will be hardened. Bracelet length: Our bracelet will be VERY LONG! With 210mm length incl. clasp I believe it is the longest bracelet in the market. Add the length of the watch (approx. 54mm) and even your 10.4" wrist could wear our new watches!!!! So lots of spare links to adjust to EVERY wrist. WR Testing: As we were the first micro brand officially certifying the WR of our watches we will continue with this open communication. We will test the WR of the watches up to their maximum or stop latest at 3000M. :-) This should be enough for everyone. :-) Watch Box: Up today I was planning to use our standard H2O KALMAR watch box with 4 compartments. We are checking right now a hard-shell case alternative similar to the PELI case 1150. Our hard-shell case prototype is in the air right now and we will receive it next week. The decission will be made in next week. CNC Machine: Our first CNC machine will arrive next week. I´m really looking forward to that as this is our first step into own manufacturing of our watches. But we are German: One step after the other! :-) |
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moonboom 3T WIS
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Please let me give you our latest news update on the H2O ORCA: 1. ORCA Case Prototypes: We have received this week the first images of the finished prototypes. The prototypes will be send next Monday and should arrive in that week. From the first photos especially the sapphire bezel inlays turn out to be very nice. 2. ORCA Bracelet / ORCA CNC Buckle prototypes: The bracelet and buckle will be shipped as well in next week. We can´t wait to get this monster bracelet into our hands. This bracelet will be longer than usual with 210mm/8.26 inch and with the watch case in between this results in approx. 264mm or 10.4 inch length. This should be enough to fit everybody. 3. ORCA Watch Box: We have changed the inside foam design slightly and prototypes should arrive as well next week. We get two prototypes with stiffer and softer foam and will choose the better one depending on the prototype touching experience. 4. HEX Screw Driver: There will be two Hex watch maker screw driver included into the package. These screw driver are Made in Germany by a specialist for such items. They are custom made for H2O as they are not included in the regular production program of the manufacturer. There will be a white H2O wave + H2O company name printed onto the screw driver. Even though it seems like to be a simple task of just placing an order, it´s quite more difficult as you would expect. These Hex screw driver are made only on custom order and the Hex screw driver cone needs to be manufactured with very tiny tolerances between 1.47-1.49mm. We have too many screw driver in our office not meeting this criteria and will go for Made in Germany. :-) 5. Leather straps: The different leather straps are in the stitching process already. We have bought two months ago more than a dozen calf leather skins in Germany to ensure the vest possible quality for the H2O ORCA straps. I personally wear more or less only leather straps and therefore my eyes are always focussed on perfect craftmanship, leather quality and lowest use of chemical ingrediances. Together with our new H2O ORCA CNC buckle you may not find any better strap. We would like to buy everything out of one or two hands, but this is impossible if you want the best available quality for every single item. (Un-)fortunately I´m not the person buying this stuff from watch catalogs, so every single H2O ORCA part is constructed by our German engineer and myself. We are sure to show you within the next week the first shots of the H2O ORCA! :-) |
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moonboom 3T WIS
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Tomorrow is THE day! The first real life images of the H2O ORCA DIVE and H2O ORCA DRESS are likely to show up TOMORROW on OCEANICTIME. The remaining models H2O ORCA CLASSIC, H2O ORCA VINTAGE and H2O ORCA MONO will be published in the beginning of the next week at same place. Let me intrigue you a little bit:  |
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afc14284 3T WIS
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moonboom wrote:Tomorrow is THE day! That looks wonderful!!!!! I C-A-N-T W-A-I-T-T-T!!!!!!  |
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oagaspar Site Founder
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very,very cool Clemens! |
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