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Am I a wacko? Luminous blue hands on 3 hands watch

 

Dear fellow Purists,

one might expect there are so many watches around that anyone of us would be able to find a suitable one.

On the other hand, the more about watches you come to know, the more you will notice details that you overlooked before and that do disturb you now.
External observers might even judge you as being fussy whereas you would probably describe yourself as being sophisticated .

Well, I am a big fan of blued hands as well as luminous hands, the combination of both being almost irrestible for me.

So I sometime ago became the owner of this Stowa Flieger:

 
The combination of the blue steel and the light colour of the lume - it´s phantastic for me (now Nicolas knows why I adore his GO Rimowa LE).

What I regret: the dark dial does lessen the effect of the hands considerably. I looked for a simple watch with a white dial and the blue luminous hands.

Not that many affordable ones around, I can tell you.

My search revealed this Longines LE (Expeditions polaires), not easy to get:

I  finally found and ordered the watch, but what disappointed me were the cheap buckle, the oversized and uncomfortable strap, some scratches on the polished steel case - triffles you may say. But as the watch was no bargain at all, I returned it.

It then crossed my mind that a nice and reasonably priced watch was well obtainable, it just had the "wrong" hands. Again it is a Stowa, the Partitio:

The problem - of course - the hands are not blue.

I wrote to Stowa, but there is no possibility to get the watch with the same hands as a blue version.

I saw a local dealer who supplies watch makers and he said it would be very difficult to find these hands as blue ones.

What do YOU think: am I fussy, passionate or a bit of a lunatic to chase this "ideal watch"?

In case you sympathize with me, do you have any ideas how to procure the blue and luminous hands?
The movement is an ordinary ETA 2824-2, so that should make things a bit easier.

Any helpful ideas will be greatly appreciated!

Kind regards

anaesdoc