"Andy" Silver datewheel for vintage sub ETA

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How accurate are these datewheels? Are they fairly commonly used in GW franken builds? What are the alternatives to this DW?

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How accurate are these datewheels? Are they fairly commonly used in GW franken builds? What are the alternatives to this DW?

If you are using that datewheel (which looks OK,but not totally accurate), it doesn't line up perfectly in some of the 1680 builds. In my MBW based 1680, i have a silver datewheel, not sure if it's from andy, but it is a little smaller than the MBW datewheel. looks OK when the date is single digits, but when two digits, the numbers aren't centered, and straight on, the inner number is really close to the edge of the date window. It's something i can live with, but it is there, and i know it's there, and it makes the watch a little less"perfect" to me. The only solution to this problem, and one that a couple of members have done, is to open up the date window on the dial just a little, on the inside, making the rectangle longer. Can't take off too much, because that would make it really look odd, but a little really helps.