...which is why I didn't suggest it. Frankly, I don't think they'd do that even if you asked them to. Also, as I hope was evident from the smiley, I was only joking. I wouldn't tie the screw finish to that of the hands, but it certainly needs to be in harmony with the overall movement finish. Will t
The frosted gilt finish used to be done like Roger described it, getting both the surface form and the gold plating at the same time, whereas nowadays the plate is usually frosted first (bead blasted or ground with silicon carbide or something), and then it's given a standard electro-plating treatme
The hands are actually made of a few parts. The body of the hands is gold usually (presumably excepting ones with a blue body), and the blue parts - the rings and 'centers' - are indeed heat blued steel, with the bevels and countersinks being polished after bluing. These are then friction fit onto t
The original Korona K1-3 was 44 mm, only the bezel was scalloped, and they were indeed sold out some time ago (end of 2008 I think). The current version, with the (imho better looking by far) 'fully scalloped' case, is 42 mm, and the precious metal versions are just Korona RG/WG, while the steel one
I'd imagine a 24h chime would need at least a new, rather larger hours rack to be made. I suppose, if one were to remove the minutes/quarters bits then there might be room for that, but otherwise it might also end up needing a new case if the total thickness increases. And of course, if the rack wer
...but to me that Revue looks like a perfectly normal movement, with center wheel in center, and indirectly driven center seconds. A fairly early wrist watch movement, of course, as there's no shock protection, but it seems a quite ordinary layout to me. The Citizen and Zenith, on the other hand, ar