The pearl on that is not centered....Either the dealer tried using the flash to camouflage it or it's just a coincidence that the light caught the pearl triangle and therefore one cannot see clearly that it's not centered.....It's not a big deal for some people if it isn't centered but it'd annoy the hell outta me if it was like that on mine...
I don't understand how hard is it to have a square shot of the watch and send it as a QC....All these angular shots in QC's, what for?
A QC shot should be like this one here
The best QC shots that I've seen are from Mary and Marvellous Replica both TD's on RWG *the other one*.
It looks good to me....the pearl is nice and centered.....Take it....As for the crown tube issue, it'd come sooner than you think...just buy OEM crown and tube and get a watchmaker to swap it for you....that's something that you'd have to do for sure as the threads on the rep crown n tube get threaded pretty quickly....it's due to the poor steel they use..
I gotta get this watch too.....but these damn AP's are so damn expensive to begin with....and add to that servicing costs *which is a must IMO* and expensive straps and you are touching stratosphere.....but worth the money.....beautiful watch.
Geez....you screwed that up real bad.....literally.....I am sure you could get these spares from either Angus or Toro depending upon who you bought your V3 from....but mind you it'd be some time before you'd get them coz spares are not readily available......
Hit or miss methinks.....I bought a Safari with the newer modified @12 movement (I think they say it's got an extra jewel or something)....it ran Ok for 3 weeks or so and then started slowing down....so now I've got no choice but send it for servicing....After servicing though, I am hoping it'd be a stellar movement....