I picked up a project watch the other day. Its a Dutch WW2 UG Wilhelmina that needs a bit of love and attention. It was sold as not working but as the movement is a Cal. 262 my watchmaker will be able to get that working.









However, as you can see from the photos, it does need some other parts.

1. A new crystal.
2. A crown that actually fits properly.
3. A matching handset.

Of these issues the handset is going to be the hardest thing to find. The hour hand is correct (it has too much lume on it) as is the small seconds hand (although it shouldn't be lumed). The minute hand is completely wrong. The handset should look like this example here from @Dre

Does anyone know where I may be able to start my search for a correct handset?

 

Ooh. Finding the appropriate hands will be DIFFULT to say the least. You might have a better chance finding another Wilhelmina with the right hands. Hope you got this for a very good price. Either way, I wish you luck!

 

Hands are not that hard: https://www.mwrforum.net/forums/showthread.php?86122-FS-2-Universal-Geneve-Wilhelmina (shamelessly plugging my own sales thread).

 

My point exactly :

 

Thanks for the feedback guys. @Mark020, I may come back to you on the ones you have for sale but as I have wedding to pay for this month watch purchases are taking a bit of a back seat atm.