Gen SubC hand lengths

[dbane883]

This will be another useless piece of Rolex trivia. 

 

Out of curiosity today, I decided to take a closer look at exactly where the tips of the hands end on my gen no-date SubC.

 

First lets's look at the minute hand.  Intuitively, one would think that the tip of the minute hand might end where the minute markers end.  That is NOT the case:

 

 

There appears to be about a 0.5mm gap.  Very odd I thought.  So upon closer inspection, the minute hand seems to meet at the inside edges of the WG lume marker surrounds.  Interesting:

 

 

 

What about the seconds sweep?    One might think it would be the same length as the minute hand. That is not the case.

Inexplicably, the sweep tip ends in the DMZ zone inbetween the outer end of the WG markers and the tips of the minute hash marks.

 

 

The hour hand is another mystery.  The tip lands near the middle of the WG surround at the bottom of the 12 lume marker, yet on the inside edge of the surround on all other markers.

 

 

 

This concludes today's episode of  Useless Rolex Facts.

[live1]

just looked at my v3 and the hands are the same as you gen cool