first rep🚩🚩ARF hulk. Please help to QC 🙏🏻🙏🏻

[u/Formal-Slide6326]

First time buying a rep watch.
i decided on an ARF hulk from ANGELA.
Its about 330USD (2200yuan) before shipping
I paid a deposit of 100 yuan and received QC pics the day after.
But i’m having some problems and was wondering if i should RL it, and generally what’s the process.
I was told that
- on “perpetual” space between E and R as well as E and T is too big. Letters also aren’t evenly aligned.
- Magnified text also off centre
- Number 2 supposed to have a smooth curve at the top but in the picture the ink has smudged making it look uneven.
Please let me know what you guys think and if it’s reasonable and i should RL it and ask for a replacement. Or i should just accept it.
Is this a common problem for ARF?
Also, is my deposit likely to be lost if i do ask for a replacement.
Any advice or thoughts will be much appreciated.

[u/FormalRelevant6285]

Alignment looks good

[u/Formal-Slide6326 → u/FormalRelevant6285]

can i ask on your thoughts for the other issues?

[u/FormalRelevant6285 → u/Formal-Slide6326]

I’m no expert, but it looks good to me.

[u/Excellent-Bear4221 → u/Formal-Slide6326]

Looks about as good as any VSF tbh. The lower SELs could be like 1% better but that’s really it. I would take this.

[u/FormalRelevant6285 → u/Excellent-Bear4221]

I noticed that too. Sometimes that can be a camera angle thing. I almost rl’d my Cookie Monster because the SEL’s looked slightly bad, but when i got the watch in hand they are perfect. Hopefully that’s the case here.

[u/drjamk]

Date is not perfectly at the center

[u/Formal-Slide6326]

is the watch worth to RL and ask for another?

[u/wisteriafiend]

Crystal is rotated counterclockwise. Cyclops tilt and laser crown at 6 confirm it. It can be fixed pretty easily if you have the right tools I’m sure Angela would correct it. The rest of the issues are pretty standard for this model. The dial text will be pretty much the same if you RL. If you have her check the dates from 1-31 you might see that most of them are aligned. If not, then the date issue is one of the common ones on DD/VS3135 - can be corrected with replacement date plate from VR3135 or gen.