I am a newbie here too. I purchased my first ever rep from Puretime, one of the Trusted dealers.
After payment, I received an email confirmation on my order (Dec 17th).
2 days later, on Dec 19th, I received the QC pics from them via email for me to confirm that everything looks ok.
They give you a 24 hour period to scan through the QC pics to spot on anything that might not look good/wrong.
I spotted that the dial was not aligned at the center, and replied that to them.
2 days later again (on Dec 21st), I received the updated QC pics, and saw that the dial is now ok.
So, I confirmed I am ok, and they shipped the next day.
I've so far received the watch yesterday (28th Dec).
Good luck! Check out some threads on the particular model you are buying, I thought I saw opinions that this model might not be good because of the seconds window at 6 o'clock position, and the particular movement is prone to damage? I might be wrong...