"Flame-Blued Hands" Project (retrofit for Laco Pilot Baumuster B)

[reinman60]

I think that any competent local watchmaker would be able to change hands. I don't think it will be necessary to send the watch back to Laco.

IF we can do this without LACOs help, maybe we can contact Universo ourselves? (Need the specs. from Laco, though - diameters, fittings, so on).

As far as working with either Laco or Universo, I'll investigate both possibilities. It seems to me though, that we might want to do this through Laco, for several reasons.


First they have all of technical specifications which Universo would need to make compatible hands, and I sure they are very accustomed to dealing with hand makers.

Second, we already have the contacts at Laco, and they have proven very accommodating and responsive with respect to the B-Uhr project, and have gotten back to us with proposed design changes very quickly. The whole thing is going quicker and more smoothly than I would have thought, and if they maintain this level of service, the blued hand project should go just as well.

[stuffler,mike]

I donīt think that Universo will sell to private customers. I once tried and if I remember right Louis tried too. We both failed. I prefer the Laco option given that some members already decided that Laco should keep their Sonderanfertigung until the other hands will arrive there.

[Mescalito]

i might be interested if the cost for the blued hands are not too high...

[bullitt731]

I would prefer to have the watch sent out with the blued hands and have no problem waiting the extra time.

[reinman60]

I've been advised by hotnerd that his contact at Laco, Peter Pfeiffer, is going on vacation for 2 weeks beginning this Friday, so I won't be able to begin our discussions with them until Monday, May 26.

That will leave plenty of time for anybody interested in providing design ideas to have their say. I would imagine that by the time Mr. Pfeiffer returns, we'll have a pretty good idea about what we all want the hands to look like.

So, now that the specs for the special edition have been finalized, lets all begin the design process for the flame blued hands!

[Paulo]

As you may all know, Chronoswiss has fantastic blued hands.

Mr. Gerd-R. Lang, Chronoswiss owner, list in the end of his book "Signs of the Times" all Chronoswiss suppliers (shows his confidence that he's providing much more than just the sum of the parts). For hands he lists Aguilla - Bienne and Universo - La Chaux-de-Fonds.

[pepellf]

Count with me too.

regards

[Biggie_Robs]

Count me in.

[daviswalker]

I'm interested as well. I'd probably choose to have them installed locally.

Dave

[garaventa]

I am also a member of the "blue hands fraction".

In my point of view they should have the shape like this;



Whatīs your point of view??

Frank