I agree Mich

I don't see the economy of scale when you assemble watches by hand. Yes: the base dials will have been ordered in rounded quantities.Yes: the modified 7730 will have been ordered in rounded quantities. But cases for the Skippers are shared with their siblings. The Dark Lords may be slightly different. They took numbered cases and coated them in a fairly experimental process. You can expect some rejects.

Once all parts are available, do you set people to work to produce an even 100? Or just enough to fill existing orders or to fill the empty slots in the stock room?

Jack possibly wouldn't know the nitty gritty of the actual production, purchasing and logistics. Small/medium companies can be pretty haphazard, and certainly were back in the day.
Anyone ever talked with the "workers" from back in the day? I think we'd all like to hear.

Jurgen

: with diver 100 it seems to be the same, dark lord, at the end , I
: can hardly see some hundreds?
: cheers mich