What is inside a Titoni Cosmo King Day-Date

Foreword
Two reasons to open this watch that was on my wrist 3 weeks at the time I decided to open it. First, I wanted to see what TITONI really does to the ETA movements and second, the hour hand was slighlty misaligned at the full hour, about 2 minutes and 20 seconds slow. Of course a normal watch user would not bother about the second reason, but we are WIS, so that is something entirely different

Note: I have not found another Titoni with a misalignment. So this was just my bad luck and your good luck. Because if I would not have been fussy about that 20 seconds misalignment, this story would not have been documented. Please also note that a 20 seconds-misalignment (the minute hand is 20 seconds too early or too late exactly on the hour index) is well within the tolerances of the watch manufacturing for watches below USD 5'000. Only for more expensive watches where human and manual quality control is possible you can expect a 100% perfect alignment.

The story about the misalignment of my Titoni Cosmo King Day-Date ...
Misalignment	Misalignment Zoom	Misalignment at Night	Open Watch	The 2834-2 by TITONI
Case clips and Stem off	The empty Case	Close-up of empty Case	Close-Up of Balance	Close-Up of Rotor
Trying to Shortcut !@#$!@#$!@#$	The bent Hour Hand	Close-Up	Finger Cots	Hands Lifter and Hands
Hour Hand	...in Rodico...	Straightening the Hand	Getting rid of the black Color	Fiberglass Pen and Arkansas Stone
Shot of the Dial Side	The Dial	Dial Underside	Day and Date Rings	Perpendicular View
Hands aligned	The many colors of the "new" Hour Hand	Another shot of the Hour Hand	The Ebay Photo :-)	The Workbench after the Battle
New Hands to choose from ...difficult decision	Dauphine Hands? - Too Short	Hands close to Original? - Well almost!	Classic Hands? - Yes! I am so excited to have a "new" Watch now!	"New" Watch on Wrist! - The Happy End
	A second Pair of new Hands and a great Trick how to protect the Dial when lifting off Hands!		The second Happy End!

Appendix
Another pair of new hands added on Christmas Day 2003, please see the last two pictures for the current hands on this Cosmo King that seems to have become an ongoing watch project