It's not normal, but it's common.
I once had this on a new BFK and sent it to Seiko. They fixed it free of charge under warranty.

 

I'm sure their QC is getting worse. I can't ever remember this happening before.

I bought it off amazon, so i could replace it for free, but i'm not sure its such a big deal on a cheap watch.

I actually think it might be the markers themselves not being aligned which means it can't be fixed by adjustment.

 

I've rarely seen any watch have perfectly aligned seconds hands and it seems to me a lot of that is tolerance and variability between the location of the holes in the hand and the dial and the position of the watch's main shaft in relation to those holes. They never seem to be perfect meaning that offset will be evident at some point around the dial. If it's shifted left, the hand will be centered at 3 and 9, less so at 2,4 and 8,10 etc and showing a good misalignment at 12 and 6. And, as noted, the markers on the dial might not be perfectly located either so there are a lot of possible misalignment points.

Unless it's way off, I've learned to ignore it as I can generally only see it with a magnifying lens or a loupe. If you can only really see it if you magnify it, I'd say try and ignore it.

 

Thanks.

So i managed to get it perfect, or as good as i can tell. The manual said to move the minute hand forward then back to the correct position.

This worked by aligning the second hand. I've never had to do it this way before though.

Oh and i also set it perfectly to the atomic clock, so i will check at the end of the month and see how much its gained or lost.

 

Shanghai - you managed to adjust the second hand alignment by turning the watch backwards? Could you explain more? I have a Citizen with less-than-perfect second hand alignment, and it would be great if I could adjust it myself.

 

Seiko’s QC stinks a fair bit but if the rest of the watch was good (date central in the window etc.) I’d put up with it.

 

I've never heard of making an adjustment to the watch to get the seconds hand to hit the markers. My experience is that it's hard for the hand to hit every marker perfectly, due to slack in the movement and small variances in marker placement.

When I've fixed this before, I had to remove and replace the hand. How exactly did you do the adjustment?

 

Hmm okay. Let me try to explain. It appears the second hand had a lot of play in it and by turning the minute hand backwards moved the second hand to the correct position.

Now I'm not sure if it was supposed to do this, but it did it. That's what the manual instructions said to do when adjusting the time and for some reason it lined up with the markers. Its not perfect, but the other problem i think is the markers are slightly off, so i'm not worried about it anymore. Its close enough that its near impossible to tell.

Tomorrow i will post photos of the watch and the manual to show you what i did.

But tonight i'm watching the football. (Euro's not American football)

 

Here is a photo of the alignment now it has been fixed.

Sorry for the poor quality photos.

Its now set perfectly to the atomic clock and my Citizen. So i will be able to work out how accurate the 6N movement is after a month.

Set it on the 2/7