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Thought it would be nice to follow up in the mod section now that we have one!
I was rather irritated after getting the Invicta runaround from Debaufre about a replacement hand set so I fired off an e-mail a little closer to where this was made and immediately got an offer back from Steinhart to sell me a set of hands! fifteen dollars and a couple of weeks later I had a fat set of Mercedes hands like the modern big divers use.
Today I finally got around to installing the hands and retiring the Omega hands back to the hand card for a more appropriate project and tried to install the new hands from Steinhart....
All that polite jabberwocky with Steinhart and all I got was fifteen dollars poorer and the wrong set of hands, they sent me a hand set that is way to big for the posts, maybe they would fit a pocket watch or someting but they sure won't fit the modern ETA autos.
I'm not sure which I dislike worse being told I can't get there from here or being BS'ed out of fifteen dollars...
Not to be deterred, I installed another Mercedes hand set that really is a little too short and reused the Omega second hand. It looks better now that it is at least not having an identity crisis!
The moral of the story is a little patience goes a long way, eventually I will have all the right parts in the same place at the same time and I will be able to put this together the way I want!
