Disaster..DIY

Sorry for your misfortune, it happens. Personally I know my limitation, ickle parts and gubbins scare me to death, as I know I would muck it up. I can just about operate the toaster.

Oh man! I’m not that brave to open a Grand Seiko! Your brave my friend!! 💪🤝

Nightmare! 🙄 You have my sympathy.

It's a disaster, there's no way to sugar coat it - you learn the hard way unfortunately

This adds character.

Not for a GS - it's going to my watchmaker but I wouldn't be surprised to see it written off

Relax most things in life a fixable…..

You can unbend a bend 👍🏻

I hope not, let us know how you get on.

Sorry to hear that! Well, you can now say you have a hand bent seconds hand.

In going to down my sorrows with this, in the meantime I am looking forward to hoard #2 from Japan which I will update you folks on and rest assured I won't be meddling with them again.

You can also take out the seconds hand. It’ll add more character 🍻

...and removes money from your wallet. 😢

Indeed, nobody will touch a Grand Seiko with a bodged second hand, they aren't available to get so I need to see what my watchmaker can do and if he can fix the stem

Extra heart breaking when it's a GS and everything should be so precise and clean... Good luck getting it fixed. Just the idea of it makes my blood run cold.

I think I know that feeling of your heart falling into your stomach. Not fun. If the hand isn't noticeably bent to the eye and only to the indexing, I bet a watch maker would be happy to uninstall and reinstall the hand to fix up the alignment without charging anything crazy. Good luck! Cool watch

I typed the above comment with a 9F on my wrist. 🙂 I just couldn't see any bend in your photo and thought maybe there was a chance to salvage without being able to tell, without having someone try to bend it back. Wishing you the best with a good resolution for your watch!

That's some balls. I was tempted to open the case back on some of my watches and even that sounded like a high risk scenario 😂.

My watch maker is skilled, a master craftsman even - everything I am not, most of my watches are Seiko, he overhauled my 1971 King Seiko 5626 chronometer to as new condition. I was very picky in who to send it to but he's my go to watch bod now

You have my sympathy. I broke my Tissot PR 516, but managed to fix the broken part together with some Rodico. It's a botch-job ghetto solution, so I'm left with the unwavering guilt that I took the innocense of a vintage watch. I know that sounds really weird, but things don't always feel the same, even after fixing it. I look back on that day, it was the night before my final mid-year exam. I cried a lot and was still on the verge of tears the next morning.

My Lucerne was much a similar story. I had to service the movement myself, because I couldn't afford to take it in to a watchmaker. I'm self-taught and have made many mistakes in the few months I've been tinkering.

My Lucerne went out when I wanted to just remove the movement to clean the case. Things like this happen. Just some motivation or some words to maybe cheer you up from a Bear Grylls book I read:

"You can never be the best horse rider without falling off a horse."

Something ive thought about myself, cant be that hard surely 🙄 seen too many videos of disasters. Feel your pain, but do understand why you had a go at it. Ill stick to my own lane 👌

Well it looks like the stem release was a one way system and you had to insert the crown in a particular way, it looks like the locking mechanism is locked or broken. If broken I believe it's a write off - you cannot get parts for this watch. Anyway It's way beyond my level of understanding so it's off to my watchmaker - I will update in due course

Thanks folks for the comments and reactions, it's a tough pill to swallow on such a beautiful watch - I will update this again, I'm waiting on more goodies from Japan so I will keep you guys posted.

You are not an idiot. You have learned a great lesson while embracing that which makes us human, a challenge.

Well I’ll say I did the same recently to my 90s Seiko 7t42 chrono. Tried to align the hands better and it just…broke. But I’ve had success in modding in the past but this time it backfired.

It may not be the smartest thing you've ever done but look at it this way; if it's the dumbest thing you do all year, it will be a good year! At least that's what I tell myself when I do something like this.🙄

any second hand from the mod stores that fits a NH movement will fit. They have the Chinese copies of them on Ali. Just keep all the old parts to go with the watch if you ever part with it

Oh man, I feel bad when I mess up an NH35, GS is a whole different level.

You cannot get stems, crowns (signed GS) , crystal glass or anything like that, Dials too forget it. I would be surprised if hands from a NH fitted this, and it's not something I would do - I need to keep my Watches the way they were meant to be, that's why I purchased an entire (broken) King Seiko 56 to salvage a regulation screw because my good KS56 was missing that solitary part which is unique to them early watches that have an external regulation mechanism

Good luck, hope it all goes well!

https://luciusatelier.com/products/polished-silver-grand-seiko-dauphine-hands

they will fit i checked Seiko's have a lot of standardized parts.