There Are Pandas, and Then There Are Pandas.
And this isn't either of them! The Pandas we're talking about here, are watches, not bears. And what got me thinking about them (again) was a link posted this morning by @cm.rook who pointed a few of us to the very attractive (and not terribly priced) Yema "Rallygraph" Panda which, in it's most traditional arrangement, looks like the one on the left, but can also be had in the version on the right: The model on the left is a true Panda, while the model on the right is called a reverse Panda. The reason for that distinction is clear--Panda bears, only come in the first arrangement. Now at this point, everyone should be thinking about the most well-know Panda, The Rolex Panda, which is actually a Daytona, and among Rolex Daytonas, the most famous of which is the Paul Newman Daytona, which was famous first, because it was Paul's, and second because it sold at auction for $17.8 million (US Dollars). The story of that auction is well-known so I'll only...
Nov 8, 2019
They surely will side with you as you've taken all other measures to allow the manufacturer to make it right.
But I have had 2 times where a crown came off of watches I (used to) own. First one, the crown simply unscrewed from the crown-stem and it was a very quick DIY fix with Loctite. That was a Wenger Swiss Army watch. Another time was a Traser automatic where the crown stem actually broke as I set the time. I also made that a DIY fix since it was a common ETA 2824 automatic movement and a replacement crown stem was easily available on Ebay. But that was an involved repair that I would not recommend for anybody else since the old stem had to be released, new stem trimmed to the correct length. Stuff happens you know. :)