V72 6263 help needed

[dieselpower]

I've got a friends V72 powered silver 6263 with my watchsmith and he's had to break the large centre chrono seconds hand to remove the movement for servicing. He is adamant it wasn't his fault and says the watchmaker who assembled the piece was a 'butcher' - but that's another story. Anyway, I need to replace that broken seconds hand and get it to my watchsmith toute suite! Anybody able to sell me one quickly? Odd request I know but if you don't ask - you don't get.

 

Cheers all.

[dieselpower]

He said the previous watchmaker had 'forced it on' somehow and it wouldn't come off without breaking it. He was very scathing about his work. To be honest I don't know what to believe.

[tomhorn]

Thinking I remember seeing something about Clarks selling them. I haven't been down this franken path yet, so I can't give you any insight as to how good they are.

[cc33]

They have to be crimped on or epoxy'd/glued on sometimes. Phong will have the hand, will cost you more than dw but who know where he is right now.. Ill check when I get home, I might have one, if I do you can have it just pay the shipping

[freddy333]

Yuki & Phong have them in sets or, if you are willing to throw the dice, Mr. Slimeball always has 62xx handsets. In either case, I would strongly recommend that you have your watchmaker apply some epoxy to the the hand tube/wand intersection. Otherwise, you will be posting back with 'When I reset, the hand stops at a different place every time'

[cc33]

If either of these are the right color you can have em

[Rolexman]

The hand is not glued. It is the tube that is pressure fitted into the hand that is glued. The tube than needs to be pinched.... Oh man no one will ever understand what I just wrote

[buffedupboy]

um.... hope you guys are kidding about the epoxy...... if you get slimeball hands, you'll need to crimp the tube. I don't recommend you do this if you aren't a watchsmith. It requires alot of crimping because the tube is just too large.

[dieselpower]

Thanks for help and advices chaps, I've PM'd cc33 to take him up on his kind offer and I'll send the hand to my watchsmith and let him deal with it. He's very experienced and I'm sure he'll fathom it out. Will let you know how it turns out.