No one is going to stop you from doing so. I assume your watchmaker knows that the hand is still available from Omega.
Still not sure what the real problem, is here, other than your watchmaker being afraid to remove a hand...
I can assure you that my watchmaker is one of the leading experts in Italy, but he is a little bit afraid to damage. Italy is kind of the mothership of vintage watch collecting. There must be someone else to go to.
the chromo hand considering its rarity...
As said it was my idea to post the problem.
Okay, let’s lay off the watchmaker. Let me give you my take on this and see if it sounds about right:
OP takes watch to watchmaker and makes sure to point out the chrono hand, tells how important, valuable, and irreplaceable the OP believes it is. Now the watchmaker is a bit paranoid about even touching the hand so warned the OP something may happen when he removes it. Then the OP came here to express his angst over the issue and here we are.
Sound about right? Seems probable to me but just speculation.
