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Help with UG hour and minutes hands

  1. w154 Jul 3, 2020

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    I bought some hands and included are an hour and minute hand that surely are Universal Geneve. To my eye they look like space compax ones, but then again there are many models that appear to have near identical hour and minute hands (Nina etc). I tried to find a resource on this but had no luck so far. So can I ask the experts, a) if there is a resource which defines the characteristics of these hands by reference, or b) if there isn’t a resource, whether anyone can help ID them...

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  2. rolokr Jul 3, 2020

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    Looks like yes, need to measure hole size and length of hands .
     
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  3. w154 Jul 3, 2020

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    Looks good for Val.72 (1.60 x 1.10)

    Where should I check the lengths ?
    Hole-Centre to Tip, or total length ?

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  4. w154 Jul 4, 2020

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    Here are the measured lengths @rolokr

    End to end (directly measured)
    H: 11.7mm
    M: 15.9mm

    Centerline to end (estimated from photo using above measurements)
    H: 9.3mm
    M: 13.6mm
     
  5. Diabolik Jul 5, 2020

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    V72 (UG cal 85, 130)

    Space Compax
    Evil Nina
    Early Nina

    The must have cost you a bomb ... :)
     
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  6. w154 Jul 5, 2020

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    I bought almost 40kg of watchmakers parts. By weight I’d say that 99.9975% of it was utter crap ! The 1g of UG hands should save the day though :D.