Quick Update - Production/Shipping/Photos!
over 8 years ago – Wed, Sep 09, 2015 at 02:25:33 PM

Hi Everyone!

I wanted to quickly share some progress with you! 

Production

We are moving along great on production units! Mass production on Space Gray Anodized Aluminum adapters and Stainless Steel tooling starts up this week! I wanted to share a quick photo of the stainless steel, as promised in the last update:

*Note: I apologize for the lighting that caused the unit to appear dark in some areas. This shading is not actually present on the adapters, but rather a result of the light reflection on the watch and adapters.

 Shipping

As previously noted, we are on track to begin shipping units out to you starting September 11-14! A large portion (90%+) of the aluminum adapters (both Silver and Space Gray) will be out by the end of September (allowing for time to pick, pack, and mail them as they come in), following closely behind with Stainless Steel as they arrive in to us! The Stainless Steel takes slightly longer to begin, as the tooling has to be properly prepared for precise moulds. We will keep you updated on this as we move along, posting weekly updates as usual!

We will be using USPS shipping for both domestic and international shipments, so if this may pose any problem for you, please don't hesitate to reach out to us! Where applicable, we will be providing tacking numbers via BackerKit (for Kickstarter backers) and Celery (for customers who preordered on our website). 

Thanks for your support and we are excited to be finally closing in on shipping!

~Brandon and the team at SEVENSIXTEEN

Quick Update - Production/Shipping/More Photos!
over 8 years ago – Tue, Sep 08, 2015 at 11:49:25 PM

Hi Everyone, I wanted to share a quick update with you and answer a few questions that I've seen posted since the last update.

Shipping/Production

We are moving very close to shipping!! Our first batch ships out from our manufacturer this week, keeping us on track to begin shipping right around our September 11-14 dates! We will begin by shipping our 38mm Silver Aluminum adapters (to roughly 750 customers) this coming week (week of the 14th). Following that, the rest of the Aluminum adapters (42mm Silver and all Space Gray) will be shipping out to you for the end of the month. Based on our timeline, we should have almost all Aluminum adapters (90%+) out by the end of September and first week of October.

When we ship, we will be shipping full orders out, including both adapters and watch bands where applicable. This makes it easier for us to ship and ensures that you are receiving everything in your order when you get it.

The molds needed to make all of our Stainless Steel adapters were started last week. Once those are finished, we will be beginning rapid production on all lines of the Stainless Steel adapters. Because the various molds take a few weeks to produce, all Stainless Steel adapters are on track to ship out at the end of October. 

Polymer Adapters

Many have been wondering about the status of our polymer adapter offerings, so I wanted to answer many of the questions everyone has. We will not be making any of our adapters in polymer, but rather producing only our two styles of metal adapters. We have decided to do this for two reasons:

1. We are aware that the wait for our products has been longer than anticipated and as early backers, we want to thank you for your understanding and initial support by providing you with better quality products!

2. In testing, we were not completely satisfied with the quality we were finding in ABS Polymer samples that we were working with. We want to make sure that our products are always safely and securely locked into the Apple Watch and we were finding that the material was just not fit for the situation.

So what are we doing?

We will be upgrading all of our polymer rewards with the corresponding higher-quality metal adapter (ex. If you opted for a Polymer adapter matching the Silver Apple Watch Sport you will receive a pair of our Silver Aluminum adapters in the matching size). This includes pledge levels and our stretch goal adapters! 

For individuals who opted to upgrade their stretch-goal adapters, we will be sending you an additional pair for your upgrade (matching the size and finish you chose), so you will receive the stretch goal reward and an additional add-on pair! We apologize for any confusion regarding this, but we feel that this is the best way to resolve the problem and avoid shipping products that do not meet our quality standards.

Additional Photos

Many of you have been wondering about additional photos, so we have been hard at work this past week to take photos of many of our watch/band combinations! We have most of them done and a few more on the way (we will be posting more as we finish them)! Check them out at the link below:

http://www.get-click.com/photos

** Note: For these photos, we used our old, leftover, unassembled samples. The finishes of these adapters match our final adapters, but may seem slightly off position in some of these photos as a result of this.  

Thanks,

Brandon and the SEVENSIXTEEN Team

Quick Update - Production/Shipping/Photos!
over 8 years ago – Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 12:34:24 AM

Hi Everyone!

I wanted to quickly share some progress with you! 

Production

We are moving along great on production units! Mass production on Space Gray Anodized Aluminum adapters and Stainless Steel tooling starts up this week! I wanted to share a quick photo of the stainless steel, as promised in the last update:

*Note: I apologize for the lighting that caused the unit to appear dark in some areas. This shading is not actually present on the adapters, but rather a result of the light reflection on the watch and adapters.

 Shipping

As previously noted, we are on track to begin shipping units out to you starting September 11-14! A large portion (90%+) of the aluminum adapters (both Silver and Space Gray) will be out by the end of September (allowing for time to pick, pack, and mail them as they come in), following closely behind with Stainless Steel as they arrive in to us! The Stainless Steel takes slightly longer to begin, as the tooling has to be properly prepared for precise moulds. We will keep you updated on this as we move along, posting weekly updates as usual!

We will be using USPS shipping for both domestic and international shipments, so if this may pose any problem for you, please don't hesitate to reach out to us! Where applicable, we will be providing tacking numbers via BackerKit (for Kickstarter backers) and Celery (for customers who preordered on our website). 

Thanks for your support and we are excited to be finally closing in on shipping!

~Brandon and the team at SEVENSIXTEEN

Quick Update: Space Gray Adapters
over 8 years ago – Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 11:59:25 PM

Hi Everyone!

I apologize for being away for a few days, as we have been super busy with production ramping up! I wanted to share some really quick photos with you of our Space Gray adapters in the Apple Watch Sport. Check them out!

 We will be beginning production on these, as well as the Stainless Steel adapters this week! I will share some additional photos with you tomorrow, including the Stainless Steel.

Watch Bands

There were a few questions regarding watch band shipping, so I wanted to clarify that for everyone. We have all of our watch bands in and we will be shipping them alongside our adapters when we begin shipping, so you will receive them together when your order arrives

Thanks!

~Brandon

Space Gray Aluminum
over 8 years ago – Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 08:53:03 PM

Hi Everyone,

I wanted to share a quick update with you as they finish our other final samples. Here is a photo of the Space Gray Aluminum adapters before they send them out:

 They will be sending us the remaining samples at the end of this week so we should be in production on the remaining adapters around Monday, 8/24.

Shipping Finalization

It appears that many of you did not receive the shipping finalization email from BackerKit. This appears to be a bug with their software and we are passing this information along to them so it doesn't happen again for us or other campaign creators. Nonetheless, if you do need to update your address, feel free to reach out to us at [email protected] or support.get-click.com. We do have a lot of address change inquiries, so please be mindful that response times may be slightly longer than the usual 24 hours.

Thanks,

Brandon and the Click team