If you search for Crown Graphics on that auction site, the 135mm f:4.7 Schneider does seem to be the most common lens for sale at the moment. Historically maybe it wasn't. My experience has been that the longer Raptars are fine, the 90mm ones however are hit or miss. I think with a little patience you ought to be able find just the 125 Xenar lens for sale.
On mine, I ditched the Xenar and put on a modern 135mm Symmar. Folds up fine inside the camera and with slight modification (well, I had somebody make me an adapter) the body release works with the Copal 0 shutter. And you will be able to use front rise if you want, which is quite a stretch with the limited coverage of the Xenar.
I'm not sure a 65mm lens will work on a Crown, but someone here must know that. I think with a 75mm the bed might be in the photo, there is a drop bed feature that gets the bed out of the way, the lens then goes up with front rise and tilts to square up with the film plane. But I don't know if it will work with a 65mm.
Again, my experience at least with the Kalart rangefinders is that you can go through the adjustment procedure (at least twice) and get much more accuracy that plus or minus a foot. I did one time have mine go out of calibration but that was years ago and it has stayed where it should since then.
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