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Omega Deville Cal.565 Watch Hands wanted

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Hi all,

I have been given a Deville Cal.565 Case No. 166.033 with missing sweep second and damaged hour hand to repair. I have scoured the inter web best I can to no avail. Im not even sure how to find the watch hands part number for these. All I know is that it should be 1.50/0.80/0.18 from another forum elsewhere.

Pictures attached for reference, I would be very grateful for any assistance and education on how to find part numbers.

Thank you,
Manny
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kaplan
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These will work: https://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-OLD-ST...pid=5338899135&customid=&toolid=10001&mkevt=1

Gold instead of silver and different style lume, yet the right size and you get off easy at $20 versus $100+

Edit: If you are interested, I have your style and size hands, but they are gold coated, and the price will be much higher than this one and you'll still need to buy this one for the seconds hand, a lone seconds hand is usually around $25 minimally, so the above deal is just incredible
 
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Welp the hands sold out, all 5 of them gone, now I regret not grabbing a single set myself 馃榾
 
nkhandekar
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If you are going to fool around with the hands maybe reapply paint, try to straighten them out etc be careful of the tritium in the lume.
 
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nkhandekar nkhandekar
If you are going to fool around with the hands maybe reapply paint, try to straighten them out etc be careful of the tritium in the lume.

Tritium is dangerous too?

I wonder how much time I have left 馃榿
 
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Thank you for your responses and advice, unfortunately I missed out on the eBay hands also....

I have in the mean time (and this may be the permanent solution), managed to straighten the hand as best I can, re-apply paint and will likely re-lume both hands to match as colour matching the faded lume on the minute hand seems painful. The hand straigthened easier than I thought, quite soft.

I have ordered some generic baton silver hands (all three) from Cousins pretty cheap so will give my mate the option of those instead.
 
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Don鈥檛 forget to post photos of the refurbished watch. I鈥檓 certainly interested to see how it turns out.
 
kaplan
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I wonder what hands you ordered from Cousins, last I checked I wasn't able to find any viable 0.8 / 1.5 pairs

But cousins is very cryptic to me, hard to find things
 
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kaplan kaplan
I wonder what hands you ordered from Cousins, last I checked I wasn't able to find any viable 0.8 / 1.5 pairs

But cousins is very cryptic to me, hard to find things

I was able to get individual generic hands in silver, will see how they look once here,the length is not a match either..
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This is what I found.
 
kaplan
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Thanks! I got one of those seconds hands and it's a different style though

Let me know if you ever consider gold coated hands, I can find you other leads from eBay - it will be around $50 including the seconds
 
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Reference number on inside of case back. You use this and mention caliber.

ask any parts supplier if they have generic hands available. Might be iffy due to black and luminous in the hands. Might have to buy genuine or stick to all luminous, no black

Jules Borel, Ofrei, H W Perrins or Cousins (UK)
 
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Thank you all for your kind assistance. I never managed to source the correct hands and my friend did not want to spend any money or as little as possible on the repairs. He was agreeable to a repair of the hands with the backup option of replacement with straight nickel.

For those wondering how this turned out - I managed to repair the hour hand best I could and repaint both black and lume insert. Perfect - not by a long shot. Replaced missing sweep second with generic from Cousins (above) and with watch now working properly (repaired the date corrector and quick set date mechanisms as both were not functioning and replaced the crystal with a genuine). The watch isn't in perfect condition by any means overall.
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I will call this one done. Pretty happy with the outcome to get his late grandfather's watch out of the drawer and on my mate's wrist. Down the track a full service in order but with my couple of months experience in the hobby, this will be enough for now and my mate got away with spending $100AUD.

Cheers and take care.
 
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DON DON
Reference number on inside of case back. You use this and mention caliber.

ask any parts supplier if they have generic hands available. Might be iffy due to black and luminous in the hands. Might have to buy genuine or stick to all luminous, no black

Jules Borel, Ofrei, H W Perrins or Cousins (UK)
Thanks for your reply and advice, I contacted a number of them to no avail for original due to depleted stocks.
 
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I think you did a great job, and it shows a lot of patience and attention to detail. I suspect that the H/M hands are going to look fine to the naked eye. TBH, the shape of the sweep hand is what bothers me the most, but that's only because I know what they are supposed to look like. 馃槈
 
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This will be enough for now and my mate got away with spending $100AUD
Honestly that is great, a generic crystal alone down here in Australia would run up most of that budget unless you already have them in stock!
 
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