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Me too!

Hello anaesdoc!

I agree with you 100% and would love to know if you've found a supply of blue luminous hands. I own the Stowa Partitio Automatic with a black dial and white luminous hands and would love to own a white handwinder, provided I could put blue hands on it. I really like the Longines Expeditions Polaire Francaise as well, but as you pointed out, it's nearly impossible to find these days. And based on your report, it may not be everything it seems in pictures.

And just a note about my Partitio Automatic: it's the most accurate and comfortable watch in my entire collection. I own chronometers by several manufacturers and none are as accurate or as comfortable as my humble, old school Partitio.

Good luck with your blue hands project! Please post if you're successful.

Sincerely,

Time4Jake

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

By: anaesdoc : November 17th, 2012-07:34

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...

Totally reasonable...

By: DonCorson : November 21st, 2012-08:44

What you need is to find a watchmaker who does restoration or work on vintage watches. I would: - remove the lum from the hands - heat blue the hands - relum the hands. finished. If the hands aren't made of steel they will not blue with heat, then they ca...

Valuable hint

By: anaesdoc : November 21st, 2012-08:58

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

Me too!

By: Time4Jake : January 5th, 2013-11:54

Hello anaesdoc! I agree with you 100% and would love to know if you've found a supply of blue luminous hands. I own the Stowa Partitio Automatic with a black dial and white luminous hands and would love to own a white handwinder, provided I could put blue...

Details

By: anaesdoc : January 5th, 2013-13:04

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...

Photos Are Much Appreciated!

By: Time4Jake : January 6th, 2013-06:54

Hello anaesdoc! Thanks very much for sharing photos of your watch. I'm sorry the project didn't work out to your satisfaction, but I'll keep you posted with regards to my own search for suitable blue hands. I live in Europe, which has a much more robust w...