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  1. Auracle AGT1 electronic gold tester + calibration sample (Ref: agt1)
  2. Multi (Diamond and Moissanite) Tester, MKII (Ref: multi-II)
  3. On Balance MT-200, 200g / 0.01g (Ref: MTT-200)
  4. Troytest Tester, 5-bottle set (Ref: TROY-5)
  5. Jewellery / Component holder (Ref: JLRY-HOLDER)

Holder for movements 20 to 25mm dia.

Holder for movements 20 to 25mm dia.

Ref: mvt-sm

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Round, spring-loaded.

Holder for movements 25 to 30mm dia.

Holder for movements 25 to 30mm dia.

Ref: mvt-med

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Screw mechanism, double-sided for smaller and larger movements


People who bought this item also bought:
1. Set of 5 oilers (Ref: oil-pins-5)
2. Oil cups with swing-lid (Ref: OILCUP-3)

Holder for movements 25 to 55mm dia.

Holder for movements 25 to 55mm dia.

Ref: mvt-hldr-gents

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Screw mechanism, double-sided for smaller and larger movements

(I can't actually find the picture for this one - but it's identical to the previous item, just a little bigger)
People who bought this item also bought:
1. Set of 5 oilers (Ref: oil-pins-5)
2. Oil cups with swing-lid (Ref: OILCUP-3)

Holder for quartz movements 15 to 35mm

Holder for quartz movements 15 to 35mm

Ref: mvt-hold-q

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Price:    £4.26 / $6.60
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With plastic pegs for holding quartz movements, the reason being that you do not want to 'short' the battery whilst working on the watch.

Holder for quartz movements 15 to 35mm

Holder for quartz movements 15 to 35mm

Ref: mvt-hold-q

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With plastic pegs for holding quartz movements, the reason being that you do not want to 'short' the battery whilst working on the watch.

Watch Case Holder with Adjustable Nylon Pegs

Watch Case Holder with Adjustable Nylon Pegs

Ref: Caseholders

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Two sizes

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STANDARD
For standard watches, fixes to vice, four adjustable nylon pegs hold watch movement 23mm to 45mm diameter

JUMBO
Overall 110 X 70 X 40mm
For pocket watches, fixes to vice, four adjustable nylon pegs hold watch movement 30mm to 65mm diameter

Movement (parts) holders, set of 12

Movement (parts) holders, set of 12

Ref: MVT-HLDR-SET

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Set of 12 holders for watch movements (or parts).

Sometimes you need to hold a movement or part but not actually clamp it in a movement holder, and you can't hold it between the fingers, and you can't lay it on the table - so you use one of these, just pick the size you need from the nested stack. Ideal for mainspring holders, good for working on the platforms of carriage clocks too.

Hairspring Holder

Hairspring Holder

Ref: hsh

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Hairspring holder

Tapered pins, brass and steel

Tapered pins, brass and steel

Ref: pins

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Assorted pins. Length approx. 30mm; diameter approx 1 to 2.5mm; quantity very approx. 70 to 80 per packet; the mix is approx. 50:50 brass / steel. For pinning / riveting. It is, of course, for you to make them exactly the right size.

Bundle of pegwood (24 sticks)

Bundle of pegwood (24 sticks)

Ref: PEGWOOD

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Price:    £0.85 / $1.32
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SUMMARY: pegwood, bundle of 24

DETAIL: when repairing a watch you sometimes have to hold down a spring or gently nudge a jewel. Tweezers can damage the part so this is what you do: take a fine rod of soft wood (pegwood), roughly cut one end to a wedge.

Lint-free non-tarnishable tissue (watch papers)

Lint-free non-tarnishable tissue (watch papers)

Ref: WATCH-PAPERS

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SUMMARY: 1000 papers. 100mm square

DETAIL: sometimes there's no way of handling watch movements other than with your fingers, but the grease on the fingers will damage the metal. You can't wear gloves, they are too thick. So you use a sheet of special very thin paper, lin-free and non-tarnishable.



People who bought this item also bought:
1. PARTS TUBS, 54 of 15mm dia. in metal box (Ref: TUBS-54X15MM)
2. One Gross (144) saw blades for piercing saw (Ref: sawblade2)
3. Pocket Microscope with Light, tiny, 45X (Ref: MICR-45)

Set of 5 oilers

Set of 5 oilers

Ref: oil-pins-5

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Price:    £2.92 / $4.53
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For oiling watches, touch oiler in the oil, touch it on the part.

People who bought this item also bought:
1. Oil cups with swing-lid (Ref: OILCUP-3)
2. Holder for movements 25 to 30mm dia. (Ref: mvt-med)
3. Holder for movements 25 to 55mm dia. (Ref: mvt-hldr-gents)

Pin Vice, large

Pin Vice, large

Ref: PINVC-LGE

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Price:    £2.55 / $3.95
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A large pin vice with a nice chunky end, 2mm to 3mm.

(There is also a spare collet: zero to 0.5mm - of limited use).

Pin Vice, double

Pin Vice, double

Ref: PINVC-DBL

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A good quality pin vice, one side closes to zero and opens to 1mm, the other side, 0.5mm to 1.5mm.

Vice with table clamp, revolving base (medium-duty)

Vice with table clamp, revolving base (medium-duty)

Ref: VICE/R

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6"X5"X5", jaws 2" wide and open to 1½".

Revolves 360° lockable. Very handy for small mechanical objects (e.g. movements) where you need to access the item from different angles without removing it from the vice.



People who bought this item also bought:
1. Clock key / grandfather size (Ref: CLOCKEY-GRAND)

Movement (parts) holders, set of 12

Movement (parts) holders, set of 12

Ref: MVT-HLDR-SET

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Price:    £1.66 / $2.57
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Set of 12 holders for watch movements (or parts).

Sometimes you need to hold a movement or part but not actually clamp it in a movement holder, and you can't hold it between the fingers, and you can't lay it on the table - so you use one of these, just pick the size you need from the nested stack. Ideal for mainspring holders, good for working on the platforms of carriage clocks too.

Set of ten diamond-impregnated files

Set of ten diamond-impregnated files

Ref: BURNISHER

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Price:    £7.08 / $10.97
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Burnisher, 180mm X 7mm X 3mm.

Piercing Saw

Piercing Saw

Ref: SAW

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Price:    £7.92 / $12.28
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Saw for jewellers, watchmakers etc. For cutting metal (anything soft, gold, silver, platinum, brass, copper...but not steel).



Lightweight, traditional design (easier to change the blades than the fancy designs). Takes standard piercing saw blades.
People who bought this item also bought:
1. Troytest, 4-bottle set (Ref: TROY)
2. Impregnated Silver Polishing Cloth (Ref: SCLOTH)
3. One Gross (144) saw blades for piercing saw (Ref: sawblade)

Archimedes Drill with spring

Archimedes Drill with spring

Ref: DRILAR

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Price:    £6.38 / $9.89
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3.5" long, rest the drill (which you insert into the chuck at the end, top left) on the object, steady it upright with your left index finger on the top (bottom right in picture), hold the little knurled rim between your right thumb and forefinger and jiggle it rapidly up and down. The result is that the end spins very fast, it's obvious when you do it!

Set of 15 twist-drills, small

Set of 15 twist-drills, small

Ref: DRILL

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Set of 15 twist drills from 0.3mm to 1mm (fits Archimedes Drill).

Set of 12 needle files in a pouch

Set of 12 needle files in a pouch

Ref: FILE-SET-12

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Set of 12 needle files in pouch, total length 140mm, file length 70mm. Shapes:
square, round, triangular (equilateral), semi-circular, triangular (isosceles),


Best-quality Finest-tip tweezers

Best-quality Finest-tip tweezers

Ref: TWEEZSW

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Price:    £12.50 / $19.38
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Apollo 5.s Swiss, 5" long, with the finest point you have ever seen, for gentle handling of the smallest of watch parts. Although I advertise these as 'watchmakers' tweezers, I have also sold quite a few to a hospital laboratory. It is made of tungsten-steel because a standard 'stainless' steel would be too soft, those fine tips would bend out of shape.

Watchmakers tweezers, set of five

Watchmakers tweezers, set of five

Ref: TWEEZ-WM-SET-5

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Set of five watchmakers tweezers, good quality, all the basic sizes. Supplied in pouch (not pictured). This selection of shapes and sizes is the reccomendation of the manufacturers, from their many years experience of manufacturing watchmakers' tools.

Round Pliers

Round Pliers

Ref: PLRD

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5.5" long. Typically for turning fine wire into circles and loops, e.g. for making earring wires.

Chain-nose Pliers, 4.5 inch

Chain-nose Pliers, 4.5 inch

Ref: PLCH

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Chain-nose, 4.5 inches long, standard quality


People who bought this item also bought:
1. Replacement PLASTIC Bottles (refills) for Quicktest and Troytest Testers (Ref: REFILL)
2. Individual steel needle files (Ref: ndlfl)
3. Claw lifter - stone remover. (Ref: claw-lifter)

Snub-nose Pliers. 4.5 inches

Snub-nose Pliers. 4.5 inches

Ref: PLSNB

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Snub-nose pliers, 4.5 inches long (actually, it's a bit bigger, nearer 4.75 inches(, standard quality

Brass & Fibre Hammer, small

Brass & Fibre Hammer, small

Ref: HAMFIBRE

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Price:    £5.53 / $8.57
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Nylon-tipped hammer for the gentle 'tapping' out of squashed items without marking the metal, e.g. brass clock cases (some call this a clockmaker's hammer). Diameter of the nylon head is 0.5 inch (12mm).


People who bought this item also bought:
1. Tardy Book of International Hallmarks (Ref: TARDY)
2. Anvil (Ref: anvil)
3. Reproduction Victorian ring box (Ref: ag20-33)

Riveting Hammer

Riveting Hammer

Ref: HAMRIV

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Price:    £5.42 / $8.40
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I call this a jewellers riveting hammer, my colleague Bob, who repairs clocks, insists it's a clockmaker's hammer.

Micrometer 0-25MM

Micrometer 0-25MM

Ref: MICRO-2

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Price:    £24.58 / $38.10
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A very high quality micrometer, well-engineered, 25mm / 0.01mm.

Includes Certificate of Calibration, and it's quite impressive: the error is 0.001mm on each of four test-blocks measuring exactly 7.7g, 12.9g, 17.6g and 25g. (I only have one sample, I assume they are all this good). That means that even at 25g you know you will not be more than 0.001mm adrift. Boxed with a key for re-setting the zero.


Hands Lifters, pair

Hands Lifters, pair

Ref: hlifters

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For removing the hands of a watch by gently 'prising' them with a gentle lever-action.

A simple idea, I've tried many designs, these seem the best, steel (not chrome), non-slip tubing, and ends that are just the right thickness and just the right curvature.

Watch Hands Remover

Watch Hands Remover

Ref: HREMOVER

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For remover the hands from watches.

Watch Hands Pusher

Watch Hands Pusher

Ref: hands-pusher

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You fit watch hands simply by pushing them on. But what with? You could use the end of a pencil and hope for the best, or you could use this specially-designed 'pusher' with nylon tips.

Clock Dial Spanner

Clock Dial Spanner

Ref: CDS

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For undoing the special screw that holds clock dials, but you may recognise this type of fitting from cameras and binoculars and telescopes and no doubt many other items.

Staking machine

Staking machine

Ref: stakes

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Price:    £102.13 / $158.30
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Staking machine with 120 stakes.

Arkansas stone

Arkansas stone

Ref: arkansas

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Price:    £6.38 / $9.89
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Arkansas stone measures 5 X 23 X 10mm, supplied in fitted wooden box with push-on lid.

Oilstone

Oilstone

Ref: oilstone

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Price:    £10.42 / $16.15
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Oillstone, the type known as an India Stone, this one is from India, good quality, rough on one side, fine on the other side.

Keep it well-oiled (start by soaking it in oil for several days), then use it for sharpening tools including the fine-tuning of screwdrivers and tweezers.