Dec. 19th: At just a few minutes past 1pm, my package was delivered. No need to go into details about the type of packaging, but will say it was adequate. The timepiece came in a rubber watch sleeve with Franck Muller labels stuck to the outside. Once I removed the timepiece from the sleeve, I had to remove an additional rubber protective cover from the body of the watch and a protective sticker covering the backside face (protecting the distinct Franck Muller engravings).
The movement works, it really does jump hours and keeps perfect time so far.
My only complaint would be the band, I understand I’m not going to get real gator skin, but this band is like molded plastic.
My thoughts on the whole process: I will definitely be doing business with these guys again. The sheer number of brands represented and models within each brand is amazing and they are very quick to reply. I wasn’t satisfied with the first watch in the quality check pictures they sent me and it took a few more days, but they found what I was looking for and they shipped it the next day.
I’m wearing my new and first Franck Muller as we speak!
Overall score for ChazingTime: 100/100, A+, two thumbs up, etc., etc.