Why care so much about the font, can't you see what is glaring there? The movement body is flat in the rep and in the gen it is engine turned like the pendulum. I would concern myself with the movement before the font on the case back which isn't as obvious.
If they just took the current ETA movement and did that one last finishing touch to it, I would have bought one by now. I'm waiting to see what the next revision of the watch is and since some things came up recently I guess I'm not going to be buying a watch for a few months. Usually with the PO's, once something is speculated (which at this point it is vague if it is or not), it takes not just a month or two but many months for them to put out a corrected version of the rep. it's a long wait but often times worth it. I would hold out on buying one of these, it appears to be a rushed job. And for $350 + WU fees + shipping you're looking at about $400 for a watch that needs a bunch of things addressed. Not worth that much ca$h imho.
Keep in mind too that from what I have noticed in this hobby, most of these watches, even the ETA clone variants, cost less than $100 to manufacture and when you're putting out 350, that is a $250 profit to everyone in-between. I noticed this with my SOSF which is a very nice watch but it is the same thing as the ETA (my 21j cost about $160 and the ETA was being sold for $500-$650 on practically every TD site, total waste of money I mean the ETA movement wasn't decorated and everyone knows an ETA goes for only up to $100 [basically it is a $60 movement, clone is probably somewhere around $35] so the watch should have been $260 with ETA not $500+, totally contrary to being on these forums). And other watches, and dealers I have noticed fluctuations in price and sometimes false promises. Some of these TD's will lie in order to get money, I had one telling me that if I bought one watch they would send me two. That didn't happen and the watch I received wasn't as good as what I expected.
Also don't get me started on King what a blunder of a TD. The watch she sent me was far from right and she accused me of being "cheap" when I wanted to refund and return it. Bad way to do business.
Just be careful with what you buy and how much you spend.
