Patina heaven and the sword hands! Actually you can barely see the burns around the indices. Cal 267. Thanks @bgrisso!

 

Nice one!

 

Beautiful. But I'm going to quibble and call those "diamond" (or maybe "lozenge") hands. Sword hands are generally more asymmetric and have their widest part towards the tip.

 

It's a beauty! Congratulations!

 

Some were calling these "Alpha" (including me and Sr. Sala) but some in the UG Jedi deem them "Sword". Who am I to argue?

 

No, they're not alpha hands. I will try to post some photos.

 

glad you like it Larry !
I've always called them alpha, but I think the issue is that the hand naming convention is not consistent across brands ?
It's a nice combo on the hands, not only the alpha instead of the more common stick/baton, but also the seconds is blue instead of the more common silver. really makes things pop.
and yes, weird how much a camera highlites the dial stain, where as in person, the whole dial looks much more even toned...

 

I think this could definitely be just different conventions (and there are probably some examples that are borderline between these), but I at least wanted to illustrate my own personal understanding of what these terms mean. (Images lazily borrowed from Google Image searches.)

ALPHA


DIAMOND/LOZENGE


SWORD

 

I could go with Diamond. I have that very model 22242 you show. At first I thought it was mine but subtle differences.

 

Great piece, huge congrats and wear in good heath

 

Lozenge according to the squirrels 101 Series.

 

I acquired another Outdoorsman recently from a forum member, could anyone explain why it is called the "Outdoorsman" and any specific features these watches have distinguishly? Thanks

 

"Outdoorsman" was the model name:

 

Thanks, H!

 

I could appreciate the safeguard against "absent-minded dunkings."

 

And now I learned the difference from ALPHA, DIAMOND and SWORD hands..thank you

 

But they don’t like “absent minded dunking” anymore!

 

does anyone know what ref the stainless steel 71.5 dollar watch has

 

Either Cal 263 or Cal 267

 

nope, it's an automatic. I assume it would be an early bumper? what's that, I'm not sure offhand, 138 ??