Vintage Seamaster 200/300 Hands... Or are they?

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Hi folks,

Bought a lot of watch hands recently expecting to get what I thought were some vintage black sword Seamaster 200 hands for the Banana and a set of silver baton hands for the early 300.



Visually they look the part, seem well aged, and overall size of them seemed correct. Even though the lume looks well beyond the vintage of a Banana Seamaster.

But the hole sizes are way off.

Silver set is large at 90/170, maybe someone broached them for another watch in their life.




Black set is small at 60/130.




Based on the collectors guide, none of the Seamaster movements match those hole sizes. So I'm thinking they are for some other divers/have been messed with.

Right? Omega wouldn't expect the watchmaker to broach replacement hands would they?

Can anyone point me towards other watches that used similar hands off the top of their head? The Baton hands are certainly more common on other watches, but the black ones seem a little more unique. Would love to at least get my facts straight before doing anything with them.

Thanks in advance for any insight.
 
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And actually, it looks like the black hands could be for the Seamaster 200m 166.0177 since that had the 1012 caliber....

So maybe I should have tried harder and not pigeon holed myself.

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Omega wouldn't expect the watchmaker to broach replacement hands would they?

New hands often require a bit of fitting...
 
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New hands often require a bit of fitting...

For sure, but not usually like broaching from 60 all the way to 80 ( if these were supposed to be for something like the 565). Right? That seems like a lot.