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Clean 126500 Daytona review

SD92

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Disgusted at a TD being honest saying they cant get what they want 😅 i swear rep buyers are some of the most dramatic people ever
Sorry it's due to a bad translation as english is not my native language, in my own language this term is less dramatic ;) What I meant is more in a sens of "discouraged". Anyways I bought plenty of Reps, from many TDs here without any issue
and I'm one of those people who know what they're buying and don't go whining publicly as soon as a problem appears (abour a rep) on the horizon.
Thank you for your understanding and sympathy.
 
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Jcap66

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I’m looking into buying a clean 126500 panda and I’ve been looking at other people’s qc pictures. Does the clean 126500 have a known common issue of a not centred dial?
Most of the watches I see in the latest qc pictures look like the pictures below, two different watches. The chronograph hand aren’t centred at 12 because the dial are shifted I guess?
Is this a common issue or am I just seeing things that doesn’t exist?

 

SRBJKU

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I’m looking into buying a clean 126500 panda and I’ve been looking at other people’s qc pictures. Does the clean 126500 have a known common issue of a not centred dial?
Most of the watches I see in the latest qc pictures look like the pictures below, two different watches. The chronograph hand aren’t centred at 12 because the dial are shifted I guess?
Is this a common issue or am I just seeing things that doesn’t exist?

Look at some pictures of gen Daytona's. You will see that is how they are configured as well. The two upper dials are above the center line of the 3 o'clock, 9 o'clock and hour/ minute hands.
 
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I’m looking into buying a clean 126500 panda and I’ve been looking at other people’s qc pictures. Does the clean 126500 have a known common issue of a not centred dial?
Most of the watches I see in the latest qc pictures look like the pictures below, two different watches. The chronograph hand aren’t centred at 12 because the dial are shifted I guess?
Is this a common issue or am I just seeing things that doesn’t exist?

All mechanical chronographs will have some kind of slack and reset drift. They're not perfect after all. Even gens costing 10x the rep face issue. Both jmages are well within normal for chronograph.
 
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Jcap66

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Look at some pictures of gen Daytona's. You will see that is how they are configured as well. The two upper dials are above the center line of the 3 o'clock, 9 o'clock and hour/ minute hands.
All mechanical chronographs will have some kind of slack and reset drift. They're not perfect after all. Even gens costing 10x the rep face issue. Both jmages are well within normal for chronograph.

Ok that’s good to know that most of them look like this 👍 I just haven’t noticed it before but it’s also zoomed in x100…
 
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