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I wanted to show the forum the difference from Gen 382 (bottom) and the new Pam382 VS V2 (top). The case shape is a tad off. Not sure if it’s fixable due to the current shape. Any suggestions?

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First thoughts: Wow, it’s 95% good. Dial is slightly crooked or the font is. Going to try and adjust it as much as I can. The 15 bezel marker is crooked just a tad. No big deal. I’m very happy with this version. The patina is looking very good and I’m going to let it ride and see how it gets in the next few months.

As for my previous post about the case. Closer inspection it look very good. Bad angle on my part from the post before this.

I rate this 9.5/10.

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The bad about this watch. A line or cut starts from the 7 marker going clockwise tapering off all the way to the 3 marker. Didn’t notice it until I decided to clean it.

Quality control pictures of the bezel were this.
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The bad:
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Update. TD is sending me a New dial and a New bezel to replace the crooked dial and messed up bezel. I won’t use this TD again as I find it careless that they failed to disclose the dial and have the integrity to not pick a watch that has a crooked dial. And the fact that I got a bezel shot from the only angle that wasn’t really messed up. Integrity is key to business and after numerous emails going back and forth testing my patients he agreed to send those items to me. Still. This is the 3rd attempt in 3 years buying a 382 and every time I get screwed one way or another. I’ll be satisfied when I have the replacement parts.
 

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Update. TD is sending me a New dial and a New bezel to replace the crooked dial and messed up bezel. I won’t use this TD again as I find it careless that they failed to disclose the dial and have the integrity to not pick a watch that has a crooked dial. And the fact that I got a bezel shot from the only angle that wasn’t really messed up. Integrity is key to business and after numerous emails going back and forth testing my patients he agreed to send those items to me. Still. This is the 3rd attempt in 3 years buying a 382 and every time I get screwed one way or another. I’ll be satisfied when I have the replacement parts.

really interesting to hear that TD also supply individual replacement parts.
 

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really interesting to hear that TD also supply individual replacement parts.

I think he is doing me a favor because he knows he sent me a Watch with a messed up dial. It’s blatantly crooked and was hard to tell do to the angles of the qc pics. Also from my post above of the side of the bezel that is just plain garbage. I’m more concerned with the dial than anything so I hope he pulls through. If he doesn’t I’ll post our entire conversation email thread showing him skirting the issue. But I will wait to see if he comes through. I’ll give him 90 days. I don’t care if he reads this thread either. I’m sure many of you have not recieved crooked dials. I’ll post up a picture with lines drawn soon.
 

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I had a hard time finding a good one. The quality control of vsf regarding Pam382 really sucks. Wrong shaped crownguards, crooked numbers on bezel and the most common flaw, bezel pearl placed a bit to the right. I rejected 3-4 watches until I found a good one that came with a small mark on the bezel (which is not visible any more due patina)

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I had a hard time finding a good one. The quality control of vsf regarding Pam382 really sucks. Wrong shaped crownguards, crooked numbers on bezel and the most common flaw, bezel pearl placed a bit to the right. I rejected 3-4 watches until I found a good one that came with a small mark on the bezel (which is not visible any more due patina)

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Just sucks how some of these TD’s think we are dumb and send us crap. Attention to detail is all I ask for when spending close to $500 for a watch. Reputation should be more valuable than ripping people off. I just hope he pulls through and sends me the pets he said he would. I will update when I get them. If I get them at all. If I don’t get them I will post thisbwatch for sale and order a different V2 from another TD. Who did you use to order yours ?
 

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That I'm trying to say is that most of vsf 382s comes out with defects straight from the factory and this is not tds responsibility at all

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