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Hi Time4Jake,
it´s good to hear I am not the only crazy watchnut who is fascinated by blue hands.
The hands were not available in a blued version, but I had the steel ones removed and blued by a watch supplier in Germany. The minute and second hand became stunning, but the hour hand a bit less good. You can spot the slight irregularities at the hands´ margin.
This is how the watch now looks like:
The original looks like this.
As I am not fully satisfied with the result I am trying to sell the brand-new watch now.
So, in case you are interested ...
Kind regards
anaesdoc
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Thansk a lot, Don, for this proposal! I was focussed on finding the matching blue hands, but if that shall turn out to be impossible, the procedure you recommend seems very well worth trying! Kind regards anaesdoc
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