Repairing Hamilton Movements: K&D Staking Sets - "How to Book" for Download

For watchmakers and hobbyist who do maintenance or repair on Hamilton movements, you probably have found a need for a staking set. If you’re like me, you only have training for balance wheel staking. I’ve bought a number of books, downloaded PDFs, dug material out of watchmakers manuals. I have spent too much money and had little return.

I found a PDF of the original K&D manual in the public domain. It’s similar to two different ones I bought. I uploaded it to Zamar and used their conversion tool. I converted it to a HTML file and rebuilt it in MS Word. It’s now back in a PDF format. If you would like to download it you can do so here.

K&D Staking Set 18R Deluxe – The Last K&D Product C1997

If you want to save yourself the hassle looking for other materials, I bought a printed book that helped me understand staking tools.

You don’t need a library of staking tools – just one book.

RECOMMENDED

The Watchmakers Staking Tool by Pierce. Mike the Watch Guy re-published it and sells it on his eBay store as well as on Lulu.com. Just Google: Mike the Watch Guy and you’ll find it.

Staking Tools and How to Use Them

I added charts as appendixes to help identity the function of K&D and C&E Marshall Moseley punches and stumps.

Good luck.