Flaw on the front lense

Hi,
I just bought a G12 and played arround with it. I took some photos of our newborn during a bathing session. Some water hit the front lense and I used some Eclipse and a Q-tip to clean it. I then noticed a flaw on the front lense.
Now I m not sure if Eclipse had done this.

Here are some photos of it:

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don't think Eclipse would remove lens coating. Had a 100mm macro lens like that but it had no effect on IQ only on resale value.

I have used Eclipse numerous times on glass and never had it do anything like that. I had a lens with a similar defect from the factory once, It didn't effect IQ at all.

so that is caused by the factory defect or water?

I think its a factory fault. I cant tell if its on the surface or below.
I m gonna return the camera even though I dont see it on the images. It just bugs me.

I can be completely off target here, but it looks like an air bubble inside the glass element. shouldn't affect IQ, but it always bugs the camera owner no end

Yeah, quite annoying when u notice it, Good Luck for exchange new G12~

Looks like the lens has bits of dust in as well !!!