Totally flush, or just more flush than before?
Ok good question actually.
In the older generations ROOs and ROs, the screws can sometimes (but not always) be observed to be slightly sunken against the bezel surface. They were sometimes flush with the bezel surface. So they were NOT always sunken either.
In the modern ROOs and more recent ROs, the screws are mostly flushed with the bezel and I’ve barely seen even one sunken screw among the 10+ APs I own as well as the ones I’ve seen which belong to my fellow collectors.
Sunken screws aren’t a feature of AP watches for me and could be a matter of assembly variance rather than signature feature. If you search through pics on the internet you will be surprised also to see screws of varying heights on the same watch. Same goes for misaligned dates and crooked logos.
Guys here are far more picky on reps than the gen owners are in general. I find it ridiculous to superimpose grids on QC pics and reject a watch because something is imperceptibly off in alignment. Such members need to hand assemble their own watches instead of buying them from anywhere.
It’s a $500 watch which will look like a $500 watch even if everything is 100% micro-aligned.
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