As with the dial, we see distinct sets of hands that were used, again categorizing based upon the applied coronet or Arabic 12.
Applied coronet dials
Hands are silver on all applied coronet dials, with the single exception mentioned in the Dial section. I believe in all cases the hour and minute should be alpha hands.
The hour hand should end approximately at the 10 o’clock dagger mark. The minute hand should end at the tachymeter track. The chronograph hand is stick in shape, with a somewhat fatter “tail” with a flat end. And though we see other hands, I always question the originality when inconsistent with all other examples.
The register hands are stick design. Although the running seconds hand is slightly thinner than the minute and hour counter hands on some pieces, I tend to believe that all three hands should match in appearance.
Arabic 12 dials
We see the Arabic 12 dials with three different handsets (incredibly difficult to say what is correct when there are just one or two examples of each design). All hands are gold in both sets.
a. Sword hour and minute hands, non-luminous. Stick chronograph hand with leaf. Leaf register hands .
a. Pencil hour and minute hands, non-luminous. Stick chronograph hand with leaf. Stick register hands with the running seconds hand appearing slightly thinner than the others.
b. Luminous leaf hour and minute hands. Stick chronograph hand with leaf. Leaf register hands.
