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I love it. The patina is beautiful, it's clean, the lugs are understated accentuating the roundness of the case.

Disclaimer: I have ZERO experience with Universal Geneve and therefore have no valuable inputs as to the authenticity of the piece...it just looks pretty!

 

Looks nice, the hour and minutes hands Are of different style so maybe the minute hand was replaced?

 

Fake



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Are you thinking of buying it?

 

Hands are mismatched. Given the sellers studious avoidance of crown pics, I’d guess the crown is a replacement too.

 

I think it's probably OK. I've seen the cal 262 in anything from a 30mm case and this would be the absolutely biggest variant. It's quite common to see the mix of a sword hand and this minute hand - a lot of the smaller Outdoorsmans have this mix as well. I wouldn't worry too much about the crown as I'd be fairly sure that this pre-dates signed crowns.

The only bit that bugs is the fact that it's in such good condition but I can't actually pinpoint a single detail that puts me off. I have thought about buying this one myself but until I finish off at least 2 other projects (a Polerouter bumper and a 18ct Outdoorsman) I'm not buying anything new.

 

Well.. someone liked it because its gone.

 

I've thought about buying this one, very large size and pretty reasonable price IMO. Just haven't been in buying mode I guess. I passed over it several times thinking I had decided there was something wrong with it, but each time I came back and realized I couldn't find anything that jumps out at me as an issue.

 

i have been a victim of a wrong and damaged crown recently disguised in pics. not very cool if that was the case here.

but this is a sharp looking watch, and if somebody thought if there was something wrong with one aspect of it the other parts and a whole made up for it.

 

Agree on the minute marker and good catch on the crown. Didn't notice.

 

Even with all the flaws - I. LOVE. THIS.

That watch is the definition of clean simplicity.

 

as already stated, hands look fine, this is a known config.

I agree crown is likely replacement but wouldn't bother me

 

Looks good !

 

Really need to build a three hand reference thread.

 

1000% a job for Ben

 

Lol. OMG I have bought so many three handlers over the past few years. Sold most of them, only 4 left at the moment...

 

Oh hell...lets get er going....

 

how would we approach it? would the 5 digit case ref be searchable? I know that sometimes just searching numbers here on OF doesn't work, at least if they are shorter, but perhaps 5 digits would be long enough? Anyhow obviously it would need to be searchable, otherwise if it was just a photographic reference that would be unwieldy, but if it was both photo and case ref and searchable, then anyone could add three handers to it, with a few pics, and the case ref included in the post ? Does that make sense?

 

I think the way you laid it out makes sense and search will work for 4 or more digits.