This might be a silly question but, could any Astronuat be converted into something like this by not installing the standard hour hand and swapping out the dial. I appreciate that an original dial itself would be hard to find, but I am wondering about the technicalities of creating such a timepieice.
The standard Astronaut I would imagine has 3 gears: 1 x 24 hr, 1 x 12 hour and 1 x minute. If I read the above referenced post right, the true 24 hr timepieced has just the one hour wheel (gear) along with the standard minute wheel (gear). Is my reading of that post correct?
Here's a 1966 parts listing for the 2142 Astronaut additional parts.
132 = 24 hour wheel
137 = 12 hour wheel
136 = Minute wheel
134 = 12/24 conversion wheel (not sure this is what it's called)
My thinking is that these true 24 hr timepieces didn't used part 137 and parts 134 and 132 were slightly modified.
The question I have is, did someone convert a TE clock movement into a wristwatch, convert an Astronaut, or is this a genuine 24 hr wristwatch timepiece?