The points about over-magnification are reasonable, and I agree with them, but some of the flaws on that Striking 10th are so egregious that they're discernible with your naked eye. The minute track extending over into the inner dial is unacceptable because it's not part of Zenith's original design. It's a quality control issue at Zenith's dial supplier Fehr & Cie, who supply for many other Swiss brands also. Much of what the photographs document are acceptable to me given that VpH/ Striking 10th dials are so complex and involve significant hand finishing.
http://zenith.watchprosite.com/show...-at-dial-maker-fehr-cie-sa-official-report-i/
I suppose that I'm fortunate that my VpH looks perfect to me. If I got the aforementioned 10th from Amazon, I'd return it too and never buy from them again. The movement appears like it's been tampered with. Everything about it screams "b-stock." The whole package is far worse than Walt Odet's infamous Rolex Explorer article.
BTW, most of the higher end brands that I've owned have similar dial and hand imperfections. A Blancpain Aqualung that I had was particularly awful, with lume poorly applied and spilling outside of indices. Rolex dials, in my experience, appear the most pristine under intense magnification, but even they with all of their space-age tech aren't perfect.
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