well its only been in the car 2 days now but i can say that yes it does. this morning it felt a little cold, but it warmed up considerably today and been sitting in the sun so it felt warm this afternoon.
well i put it on myself lol. there has to be a nut there otherwise you cannot choose the orientation of the knob. i wanted to align it a very specific way. also the threads are just held in by epoxy so it cannot hold a lot of torque, it was ither that or use threadlock, and since i am prob going to be doing more work to the shifter in the future i wanted it to be easily removable.
tbh i never really did choose a sphere, the guy never asked what shape i wanted and i never told him any shape lol. i knew i wanted lapis and i think it looks really good as a sphere, and as dorsodurojohn said it looks like a planet, witch is very cool to me as well. the pictures dont really show it, but there is a lot of pyrite on it, witch is fools gold, so it really sparkles in the sunlight at certain angles. i guess that could look like land mass if you use your imagination. so you could say the sphere chose me
