You got it wrong dude. Not sure what your expectations are but most real v9 subs have sel like the v6s.qc dependant
Could you point to a watch in this thread that you have verified as a legit V9 that has SEL fitment that looks anything like gen? I do not recall seeing one. Marco177's V7 no-date looks good, of course that's a V7 so isn't on point for my question.
In
this post the SEL depth looks very good, but Princewilliam seemed to indicate it was a V6S later in post #85?
You posted
these live pics of a V9, but SELs look nearly flush to me.
You commented about
these pics and said "sharp recessed sel", but without an angle shot I don't see it. I know your eye is a million times more experienced than mine so perhaps you can tell without an angle shot.
You called
this watch a "real v9" but I see no way to tell if the SEL are recessed and if so, by how much. They look fairly flush but it's really impossible for me to judge with this angle.
You called the one in
this post "a perfect V9" and in
one of the photos it looks like maybe the bottom is a little recessed but the top looks pretty flush. Again, not a good angle to judge.
There are numerous examples of watches you've validated to be good examples of a V9, but since the QC shots never seem to include an angle that lets you see SEL depth (intentionally by dealers) it is almost impossible for me to gauge. I got "V9" from Ryan, and would definitely not say the SEL depth is "like gen".
Here is one of my QC photos:
Good V9?
But here's what it looks like when shot at an angle that lets you directly assess SEL depth:
Now compare that with gen:
Is my notion of what gen should look like all wrong? Is the picture above a good representation of gen? If so, is there a single V9 in this topic with SEL fitment that looks like that?
If I'm all wet that's cool - I'm just trying to learn here - and you're clearly the guru - but I'm not seeing SEL depth in any of these watches you've verified as perfect V9. If it's just that you have a practiced eye and I don't and you can tell from a straight on that it's good and I can't, then I have to accept that. But since all the other V9 QC pics look like mine (to my uneducated eye) I assume they all fit like mine and mine seem to be too flush.