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Hello everyone!
Where to buy tall tube heat blue hands, not painted hands.
Thanks.

there are no tall tube hands heat blued as I know you could use nit tall blued hands and use the tubes from the brass hands

tafari wrote: ↑January 23rd, 2020, 4:17 am there are no tall tube hands heat blued as I know you could use nit tall blued hands and use the tubes from the brass hands

Wasn't River hands tall and heat blued? The top part of the hands (the blued metal) was attached to a regular tube with friction.

If my memory serves me right...

tafari wrote: ↑January 23rd, 2020, 4:17 am there are no tall tube hands heat blued as I know you could use nit tall blued hands and use the tubes from the brass hands

THX! Good idea, but where can I buy high tubes?

Emilio wrote: ↑January 23rd, 2020, 4:29 am

tafari wrote: ↑January 23rd, 2020, 4:17 am there are no tall tube hands heat blued as I know you could use nit tall blued hands and use the tubes from the brass hands

Wasn't River hands tall and heat blued? The top part of the hands (the blued metal) was attached to a regular tube with friction.

If my memory serves me right...

he doesn’t have...

you can use them from other tall tube hands like NW,RIVER, ATHAYA

I have NW 616 blue heated hands that I’m not going to use. The inner ring is loose but since you are going to make make them tall tube, I think that it won’t be a problem for you.

If you want them I can make $20+shipping. You can ask Yoda about the hands because he was going to broached them.

I’m not going to use them and they will be lost in a drawer.




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bmsm wrote: ↑January 23rd, 2020, 3:08 pm I have NW 616 blue heated hands that I’m not going to use. The inner ring is loose but since you are going to make make them tall tube, I think that it won’t be a problem for you.

If you want them I can make $20+shipping. You can ask Yoda about the hands because he was going to broached them.

I’m not going to use them and they will be lost in a drawer.




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Gordon was telling me that his hands are anodized blue, not heat treated. We got into a friendly argument about it. He insisted that gen blue hands are actually anodized. In the end we agreed to disagree.

I was trying to get tall tube heat treated hands also, but the best solution I could find was tubes from other tall tube hands and flat steel hands.

thelonedoc wrote:

bmsm wrote: ↑January 23rd, 2020, 3:08 pm I have NW 616 blue heated hands that I’m not going to use. The inner ring is loose but since you are going to make make them tall tube, I think that it won’t be a problem for you.

If you want them I can make $20+shipping. You can ask Yoda about the hands because he was going to broached them.

I’m not going to use them and they will be lost in a drawer.




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Gordon was telling me that his hands are anodized blue, not heat treated. We got into a friendly argument about it. He insisted that gen blue hands are actually anodized. In the end we agreed to disagree.

I like the agreed to disagree! I thought they were blue heated. In this case I have an anodized hands


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Well, I have seen enough videos of swiss watchmakers making blued steel hands, and have seen enough vintage watches and pocket watches to know that this was a common watchmaking practice. To me anodized blue hands don't really make logical sense. Blueing the hands served logical purposes; creating corrosion resistance, and giving the steel the desired physical properties. Plus you can see spots of rust on old vintage panerai hands.

That being said... Gordon knows a lot more about vintage panerai watches than I do and has actually handled gen parts.

I really don't know what to think about it... hehe. I just know that I prefer the look of real steel blued hands.