another issue you mentioned for a $650 retail watch (which even at deep 25% off discount would be just under $500, is mediocre lume. in this day and age it’s not expensive for manufacturers to get bright lume on a watch. an over$500 watch (discounted already) should have no lume issues whatsoever.

finally, my own personal problem with Spinnaker, and since i mention it often i find others agreeing, is not offering to sell this watch without a steel bracelet. they could offer a NATO/rubber/nylon/leather option, OR they could just take a request to sell the watch with those options, or with no strap at all for those of use who don’t or can’t use steel. putting a steel bracelet on a watch always adds installation marks, and getting it off add further scratches that no one should put up with on a brand new watch. as organic foods were once laughed at, but now preferred and widely available, at some point brands, micro and otherwise, will realize they’re losing sales by refusing to sell their pieces without the bracelet. which is something (unlike better lume) that will cost them zero$ to do.

as for the brand Spinnaker, i also have bad memories of buying a number of their auto divers advertised as professional gauge models, and when i got them the dive bezels would line up. the problem wasn’t misalignment, but that they were 90 click bezels, which no professional or even decent level diver would ever have. i don’t know if Spinnaker is still hiding this major drawback in their ad copy, via sin of omission, but it has all added up to a failed brand. seeing your misaligned bezel pip on their now flagship watch sent out for review, just brought back all the reasons i should never buy another one of their watches again.