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"i am lucky since raffles is distanced some blocks away from my place so hands galore." Raffles is good to deal with and I sent a note to them a few days ago looking for a set of 1655 hands to fit a rolex 1575GMT movement and they replied they do not stock them so I am keeping a lookout on eBay for someone to offer an improved set of aftmkt hands. I have a set of ETA 2836 '1655' type hands coming from WSO and even if they do not fit the rlx movement, they have closer to correct lume slots. I remember someone mentioning there were some omega hands that look like 1655 hands but I do not remember what model they were for and they probably would not fit a rlx movement anyway. "I also bought an horotec set of broaches plus a swiss hand tool and fear no evil…" I have a set but have broken so many that I use needles with 3 or 4 flats ground on them most of the time. I have ETA needles, rlx needles, omega needles, DG needles etc. Ha! One problem when broaching H and M hands is if you need to remove the center hub to enlarge a hand, then the hand tends to flop to one side, especially thin hands. Fitting hands, glossy black dials, and hairsprings are huge aggravations imho. It's not much of a mystery why quartz watches outsell mechanicals 1000 to 1. It is because they are so easy to fix...