Help..Aero compax

The ref alone does not tell us, depends on the dial, the caliber, and the rest of the hands. What do you have so far? Pics would help. I have a set of NOS blue radium hands for a cal 281 that you can have at cost if you want.

If we are talking about this one (from a thread at WUS) I suggest you return it. VERY poor redial....

Here’s the hands. Perfect gingerbread radium. Bought them a while ago but never used.

there are no correct hands for the watch, there’s a correct pairing between the dial and hands, so it completely depends on the dial. Your optional dial examples were lumed if I recall, so gold leaf hands are not correct for such a dial, even though they might be correct for whatever the previous version of the current reprinted dial.

hope that makes sense. You should post a pic of the dial you intend to use

also, what about the rest of all the hands? What are you using? Is it everything on the above pic, but you want to replace the hour and minute hands?

that's a lumed dial, so it would not look right with anything but lumed hands. It would definitely not look right with gold color leaf hands.

Do you know the dial will fit? Even if it's from a cal 287 doesn't necessarily mean it will work. You might want to check that first before worrying about hands.

Anyhow getting a complete set of hands is not easy and not cheap. Do you have both hands on the momento dial, I cannot tell ?

Once/If you know the dial will work, then my suggestion would be to get lumed H/M hands, use all the rest of the existing blue hands, and just replace the one (thin) running seconds hand.

The chances of getting all the hands you want for a cal 287 are low. A good watchmaker should be able to broach the holes up a size, to go from the smaller calibers up to the 287, and also if necessary to adjust the tube sizing on the running seconds hand, etc

That's all assuming you are determined to do the project. As others have said, it's not a project I would do personally.

In closing here's a shot of a gold (14K) cased Aero from Sala with a similarish dial as your proposed swap (hands and dial look relumed in this example).