Category: Watchmakers
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What’s your mission at Adelstein Workshop?
Our mission is to empower watch owners by providing essential tools for their passion. Globally sourcing and meticulously restoring timepieces, we stand as a premier destination for Rolex and other esteemed watch brands’ repair and restoration services.
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Vintage Watch Tools To Look For
Lower Your Start-up Costs with Vintage Watch Tools In 2023, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics estimated that US firms employed about 1800 watch repairers. Compare that number, when the Saint Louis Fed estimated: “Employment of watch repairers at more than 25,000 in 1963.” They also believed, “employment opportunities will continue to be good through…
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Watchmaker Staking Tool Sets
Watchmaker Staking Tool Sets Punches and Stumps Reference Vintage watch collectors see Kendrick and Davis (K&D) tools as the height of value. because the company revolutionized the repair and service industry with innovations. For example, they invented the Inverto staking frame, canon pinion removers and balance tools. Today, watchmakers like me can use tools K&D…
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Hamilton Watch Company Technical Data (How-to Service Bulletins) 1930-1948 DOWNLOAD
I lost track of the number of times I needed help with repairs on old Hamilton wristwatches. For ten years, I searched for service manuals and had no luck. I expected a handbook and now I know that the company never printed one. Instead, Hamilton issued service bulletins, known as Technical Bulletin. In 2011, I moved to Paris,…
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Watchmakers Staking Tool Conversion Chart Punches – PDF Download – UPDATED
I can count the number of times I needed a punch to stake a balance staff and didn’t have the exact size I needed in my K&D set. I had dozens of punches made by other manufacturers. I had to eye-ball them until I saw one that came close. I could have saved hours of…
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Staking Tools and How to Use Them by Kendall & Davis Co. Full 163 Page Version
Why is this book so scarce? Collectors have bought them up, people have not returned them to libraries, they deteriorated in watchmaker shops or people threw them away. If you don’t recall, K&D printed this book as a catalog. They added the “how to” as a bonus to bring in orders for their products.…
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K&D Kendrick and Davis Balance Tools for Truing, Poising and Staffing
Do you ever venture over to the section known as watch tools on eBay? If you have, you’ll notice it’s a busy market. You can find it by navigating from All categories to Jewelry and Watches, then select work your way through all the sponsored headings and hopefully, you will find a listing of vintage…
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K&D Kendrick and Davis 18B Inverto Staking Frame
The Model 18B staking frame is the sturdiest frame made by K&D. It’s the successor to the Model 17. The Company manufactured these for watchmakers wanting a large die plate and a strong anvil. This frame shipped without jeweling tools, however, K&D made a jeweling attachment if a watchmaker wanted that functionality. Before K&D added…
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A slip of history: Kendrick & Davis K&D and the Staking Tool
When we hear stories about the origins of Kendrick and Davis – the watchmakers’ tool manufacturer – most of what we learn has publicist written all over it. The K&D Key Co. disappeared on May 10, 1887. A fire swept through Lebanon NH and destroyed 80 buildings including K&D. At the time, Frank Kendrick did…