Laco Baumuster B Blued Hands: Who's in, who isn't ?

[Janne]

I too think Laco will serieproduce the B-watch. So they should, it is a perfect design, they too spend a lot of time and money in making it happen!
I do not think they made much profit out of this, and Laco is afterall a business!

We may feel this is "our" design and watch. Yes, we did a lot of work, but we worked on an old Laco design. We painstakingly recreated it, not designed it!

[CKH2359]

Regarding the heat-bluing, that was exactly what I mentioned in my earlier post. This process is very time-consuming and I would considered as "luxurious", would WWII watch factories able to produce this in time for distribution to the pilots?

BTW, Euro 100, in my country is still quite a lot of money.

Cheers

[Janne]

Regarding the heat-bluing, that was exactly what I mentioned in my earlier post. This process is very time-consuming and I would considered as "luxurious", would WWII watch factories able to produce this in time for distribution to the pilots?

BTW, Euro 100, in my country is still quite a lot of money.

Cheers

Exactly my point! As with all military ordering, the supplier had a very tight budget. The stuff has to be made exactly to the specs, and still make a profit for the supplier.
Looking in a high magnification, the blueing is uniform.

Euro 100 = US$ 126 is a lot of money in most countries. Excluding poss. shipping cost and cost of installation!

What is the general feel amongst you about "downgrading" to chemically blued steel?

[Sandy]

Chemically blued is just fine with me. I'll take anything in order to get rid of these black hands. In fact, all blue all the time would be better than heat-blued because then I would not have to orient the watch in order to see the blue.

[bullitt731]

I will support whatever we can come up with as long as we use Frank_be's design. It's his design IMHO that will enhance the watch more so than the bluing process we choose.

We will just have to see what Laco can make available to us, but I do think we should conclude this project soon while there is still interest in it.

Lets get them ordered, hopefully by the end of the month.

[Lencoth]

i will support whatever we can come up with as long as we use frank_be's design.

+1!

[Biggie_Robs]

I just want a sword-style minute hand. Heat-blued would be great, but if that isn't going to happen I will be happy with chemically blued brass hands.

[Piccolo8]

Regarding the heat-bluing, that was exactly what I mentioned in my earlier post. This process is very time-consuming and I would considered as "luxurious", would WWII watch factories able to produce this in time for distribution to the pilots?

Alright. If you LIMITED 50 owners go for chemical blued hands, Mr. Pfeiffer would be able to launch UNLIMITED B with sword-style heat blued hands to differentiate it from LIMITED B in the near future.

I’ll patiently wait for it.

By the way, I understand that the idea of heat blued hands is to make stronger and rust protective pieces than untreated steel.

I see a lot of vintage watches, both military and civilian, with blued steel hands from the era including WWII period, except for luxurious solid gold watches with solid gold hands.

I mean no bitterness and I am sorry to disturb your discussion.

Good luck!

[Paulo]

I will support whatever we can come up with as long as we use Frank_be's design. It's his design IMHO that will enhance the watch more so than the bluing process we choose.

Agreed. If the black hands on the watch had the original shape I'd be more than happy.

[Hary]

I will support whatever we can come up with as long as we use Frank_be's design. It's his design IMHO that will enhance the watch more so than the bluing process we choose.

We will just have to see what Laco can make available to us, but I do think we should conclude this project soon while there is still interest in it.

Lets get them ordered, hopefully by the end of the month.

+1. Shape is more important than the bluing process. I will go along with the majority