I dont know anything about the vendor's comment regarding SKX's commonly being misaligned but it's clear this is a catastrophe and needs to be rectified asap. The quickest solution would be to have your eyes adjusted so that they no longer notice the slightly off-centre appearance of the watch. :wink: (ps... kidding!)

It could be fixed but it looks like its the dial that requires replacing as the outer ring appears to line up with the chapter ring and that poses a problem. You might have to find someone who has 2 or 3 of those dials that can be test fit to see if they line up any better. Or, unload it and buy a watch from a bricks & mortar vendor where you can actually see the watch first.

 

Or from Amazon, as long as it's sold and shipped by them! I've had to exchange several watches because of poor quality control.

 

I'm one of the biggest Seiko honks there is, but this situation is nothing new and its drives me nuts. I've had 2 SKX's and both had misaligned bezels. Ended up modding and selling both.

Thing is, you can walk into a WalMart, Target or Kohls today and peruse the Timex and Casio displays with watches costing a fraction of a $200 Seiko and not fine a single watch with a misaligned bezel. I love Seiko but this is a known issue with them and they never seem to do anything about it.

 

I've never seen or heard of such a thing. I have 13 Seikos and I've never had a problem of any sort with any of them.

 

Might be time for the OP to write (or email/phone) the Seiko USA customer service dept and have a little discussion with them...

 

Thanks for the feedback everyone. It certainly drives me nuts too. Great watch but I can't shake the misalignment. And Marc from Long Island said he'd only do a refund and not an exchange. He said the 007, 009, mako and ray all have some degree of misalignment. I was surprised about him including the orient models. I had a mako and never noticed anything wrong with it. Slightly annoyed that Marc wouldn't check for an skx with good alignment, but he said they are all off some amount. Kind of sucks. Makes part of me not want to get any seikos because of this issue. The other part of me thinks I'll order a modded skx and plead with the modder to make sure it is perfectly aligned. Maybe from artifice horoworks or somewhere else. Or I'll get a mako. Very unfortunate that I can't get an aligned skx! I should just change my vision up like Mikey said. I should definitely contact Seiko, as I feel it is my duty, although seems like nothing had been done so far about it. The watch hunt continues...

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