For some reason all factories fail on the date fonts...
This is what I find so baffling, and so frustrating. How can factories go through such
extraordinary lengths to get everything else (including the
dial print) nearly perfect, and then just slap in an absolute crap datewheel font that looks absolutely nothing like the gen.
Picture that conversation - "I want it to look EXACTLY LIKE THIS GENUINE WATCH. Except for that part there. That part can just be whatever. Don't even care. Just bring me whatever you have laying around. Just crayon something. Seriously, whatever you have."
As we're all seeing in the datewheel thread, it's certainly not an easy process to get the factories to produce exactly what you provide them for design, but surely there should be some attempted persistence and follow-up to try to get it at least somewhat reasonable. I mean, the results from the RWI team are already LEAGUES better than the factories.
It makes me want to partner with a firm there and start something myself.
Maddening.