Is it normal to pay a TD before you see pics of the watch?
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Yes. First you pay then the factory assembles your watch.
Well, not quite. The watches aren't built to order. If a TD tells you there's a delay because they're waiting for your watch to be made, they don't mean that your watch is being built by a dedicated Chinese artisan - they mean that there's currently no stock, and the factory is assembling another batch.