Well the Aerospace Special Edition finally arrived!! It was a long wait, but really worth it...took some "rough" photos right out of the box (the protective plastic is still on the bracelet in some of the shots I know...didn't want to take it off until I re-sized it. At least the bezel is aligned...
Re-sizing took some time too. As others have said previously, those little screws are tight! While I had the bracelet off, I took a few shots with my rubber strap and custom leather strap on the Ling too...just to get an idea of how it would look. I will take some additional shots this weekend when I have some sun as better lighting.
You can see in the photos that we had a custom dial made with our group's logo (that is an EA-6B Prowler with a tailhook underneath), and we had custom engraved casebacks. I think they both came out well and I am very, very pleased.
Now on to the SE ordering info for those that are interested:
Breitling has done many SE Aerospace models, and we have a couple of folks in our group that have one from a slightly different organization. That is what initially gave our organizer the idea. He made initial contact with BUSA in December of 2007, so about 11 months ago. One issue he ran into was the file types for the artwork. They wanted vectorized files and did not make that clear initially. Because these were new images for them, he had to provide all new artwork. Bottom line is that he contacted them in December 2007, and had the images approved by February 2008. The guy that coordinated the whole buy (38 total) submitted everything in early March and was notified in early May that they needed the new file types which took some additional time to obtain. Delivery was in October for the first batch and November for the second batch, making the whole process about 10-11 months. Obviously we lost some time in the process with artwork issue. Breitling advertises 6-7 months from order to completion, which they were true to after the artwork was sorted out.
As I said, I am very happy and could not thank our coordinator enough...he did a great job! Again, more photos to follow with better lighting and more time this weekend.
Randy
That looks awesome!!! Congratulations.
