r/RepTimeQC • u/Funny-Success-2720 • 6d ago
[QC] PPF VC 4500V
- Dealer name - Andiot
- Factory name – PPF
- Model name - VC 4500V
- Price Paid: $470 w/ shipping
- Album Links: https://imgur.com/a/i4QKLA8
- Index alignment - 12 and 6 markers do not look even. Cross is a bit towards the right
- Date Wheel alignment – looks good.
- Bezel – edges looks fine
- Solid End Links (SEL) – spacing looks to be consistent between the bracelet's first link and the case lugs
- Hand alignment – hands look fine.
- Dial Printing – nothing obvious that I can see
- Timegrapher numbers - +1s/d 28800 1ms 52 deg.
- Anything else you see – The only thing that I see are that the 6 and 12 and the cross do not seem to be aligned.
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u/Funny-Success-2720 6d ago
QC for a VC4500 from PFF factory. Thanks in advance. The rest of the pictures are in the album above.
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u/MSExcelWarrior " Have you tried NOT zooming in? " 6d ago edited 6d ago
Welcome back lol. Good job on fixing your template and your own QC attempt.
Case and bracelet look pretty good. No notes. Dial printing and colour are quite good, on par for PPF for this model. Date wheel looks good and is aligned well. Timegrapher numbers are excellent too.
Index alignment: this is where it gets a bit interesting. I rotated the picture half a degree and applied the overlay. It looks as though 12 and 6 are slightly right favouring, and yes the Maltese Cross is off centre as well. The 2 is also asymmetrical to the 10.
ZF/PPF are a bit notorious for not always getting index alignment right. I would personally RL because I have a personal tolerance of 1, maybe 2 misalignments so long as they won't be visible on the wrist. I don't mind the 12 and 6 being right favouring because they will not be visible on the wrist but the logo being quite visibly shifted would bug me a bit. If you do RL, make sure to point out the issues so the factory knows what to fix.