Usually this dial in porcelain-enamel will have the baton hands and that is the combination of choice in melamine as well. The seconds hand is too short, looks to me like one for a 12-size, anyhow it is not correct.
Having the movement number and the Case 17 number would help narrow it down.
Posts: 10553 | Location: Northeastern Ohio in the USA | Registered: November 19, 2002
I think some 950b's from the mid 50's had this style hands..I have 1 in Mdl 17 Keystone case with melmaine dial that I beleive is original..S21905.. While many collectors like the baton combination, I do not think it was "mandatory".. the pictured example the seconds hand is wrong..
Posts: 638 | Location: Green Bay, Wisconsin USA | Registered: November 22, 2002
And this from the Hamilton 1961 Materials Catalog. So Hamilton did not seem to descriminate between the hand choice for both the 992B and 950B in their catalogs.
Don: That is terrific. It answers a lot of questions. Now we know that both blue and black hadns were used as well as both spade and baton. Thanks for your help.
Jerry
Posts: 767 | Location: Los Osos, California USA | Registered: December 12, 2002
Greetings and salutations from Cincinnati, OH...first post and fairly recently registered here. It amazes me how much information is available at this site...so I say "thank you".
I had been looking for a 950B recently...and when my local watchmaker got wind of that, he whipped out a 950B from his collection and sold it to me a few days ago. Prior to the sale, I wasn't sure about the spade/whip/dart hands being "OK" [paired with a #332 dial] until I did some searching here and found confirmation. Thanks again!
Regards,
Collin Wayne
Movement number: S29333 [circa 1963] Case number: R978194 [circa ?], Model 17, Star Watch Case Co.
Posts: 47 | Location: Cincinnati, Ohio in the USA | Registered: August 05, 2017
