kaplan
·I've always struggled with seconds hand fitment, these hands don't have pivots attached and rather are stamped and flimsy, I prefer the looks of the old stamped seconds hands while with the pivoted newer versions solved these challenged. With the older stamped seconds hands I have this "seconds hand paranoia"
I used to push seconds hand with holed pushers, it was risky as it was possible to overpush it, yet I had the feedback and tactile feeling of fitment
Recently switched to a Horotec MSA05.011 - which has a flat side, and I can't suggest it enough for seconds hand fitment, especially if you narrow the flat side a bit, it eliminated the risk of over pushing the seconds hand for me as it's not possible for the needle to poke through
This solution came with another challenge though:
How can I know that a pushed seconds hand is securely fit and won't slide off with usage?
I sometimes leave watches upside down for long durations to test - I even placed a watch once in a jar and placed it in an ultrasonic device for a short duration upside down just to see whether the seconds hand will survive the vibrations - maybe this is a good method to test, but unsure whether it's a good idea to subject an assembled watch to vibrations from an ultrasonic cleaner
I used to push seconds hand with holed pushers, it was risky as it was possible to overpush it, yet I had the feedback and tactile feeling of fitment
Recently switched to a Horotec MSA05.011 - which has a flat side, and I can't suggest it enough for seconds hand fitment, especially if you narrow the flat side a bit, it eliminated the risk of over pushing the seconds hand for me as it's not possible for the needle to poke through
This solution came with another challenge though:
How can I know that a pushed seconds hand is securely fit and won't slide off with usage?
I sometimes leave watches upside down for long durations to test - I even placed a watch once in a jar and placed it in an ultrasonic device for a short duration upside down just to see whether the seconds hand will survive the vibrations - maybe this is a good method to test, but unsure whether it's a good idea to subject an assembled watch to vibrations from an ultrasonic cleaner