The red tip of the seconds hand is definitely bent downards. This is also present in my blue ceramic version. Considering it's a less popular watch, these Blancpain reps by ZF are ultra convincing. But ZF's quality control truly does suck. As far as datewheel concerns, my understanding is that most of the time ZF uses a datewheel overlay glued on to the original date wheel. So you can send it over to a watchsmith and get it realign. Different story if they used an actual new printed wheel, if printing is off left to right, you can't really fix it..