Accidental Fantasy Franken

[chad]

I decided to swap my slightly scuffed gen dial and new gen hands I just received in the mail into my panda with killed 6 and chief AR.

I do not have the tools to do repairs yet..... (been thinking about learning for years)

So i had a recommendation here on 47th St in NYC that I had fix a stem on a sinn and did ok work.

I needed my aquatimer date wheel reset so I figured I would test them with this repair.

The gen hands did not fit, i should have checked but I remember a time when you bought gen parts from people and they let you know what as what with compatibility. Oh well, my fault.

So I am left with a silver handed blue dial. I am kinda liking it. I can never tell in person with various reflections which gen is which so getting called it is not likely.

The dial also looks just fine with the naked eye which I am pleased with. The rep dial does have a funny lacquer on it after seeing this one in.

What do you guys think? Leave it?

The bad part of the story is even with a warning the guys at the shop scratched the ar coating badly. It is not visible to the naked eye and only under a loupe but still it is such a shame that no one takes price in there work anymore here in NYC.

Never take for granted the people who do good work here.

[Guest jsuperman17]

Dude I know the feeling I'm in The ny area and know what crap work threyve done to me watches!!! I do have another watchesmith in mind and will let everyone know if they do good work...

[JohnDorian]

Nice strap on that.

[sander]

Could be nice if you put a blue strap on it.

If I look at the hands, I'm not sure if they are gen. If they fit without any moddification, you can be sure they are rep.

(gen has different size hand tubes)

[Toadtorrent]

I like the silver hands to be honest!