Yes I can attest...I bought my 2998-5 January last year. I finally found the correct only a few weeks ago. But definitely worth the effort!!
By the way. Since I was living with relumed service hands on the watch I can tell you that the service hands are longer and simply curving them to fit won't look right.
Even if you somehow trimmed the service hands, you will notice that the lume cutouts are not same as the real vintage ones. And there are other details you can observe that are different.
So really there is no fooling the discerning collector from the real ones and the modified services ones, in my experience.
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