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Hey all -

Just recently started exploring taking apart movements with some friends and picked up a box of tools off Facebook Marketplace to use on the disassemble and rebuild of a Seagull ST3600 movement. It included a bunch of tools that I don't know that I'll need. I'm wondering if you all think that as someone new to this I should keep these for future use or sell them off and use the money to buy things I could use now like a set of Bergeon screwdrivers and maybe a nice loop. 

I'd love any input. I'm honestly not even sure what some of these are.

Thanks

 

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Some of this you will already need like the movement holders. You've also got an adjustable mainspring winder in the lot. If it were me I would keep all of it, two very nice items are the complete Levin truing tool and the poising tool. If you really get into the hobby, within a year you might want these two, you'd be lucky to get something as good when the time comes.

13 minutes ago, caseback said:

There seems to be a general consenus/view that one of a watchmakers purposes in life is to collect tools..

I thought that was a joiner's purpose , until I started repairing watches, then I thought it was just my purpose 😅.

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14 minutes ago, SN34K3R said:

Thanks - I'll hold for now and see if I can earn my way up to needed some of these. I appreciate the input.

The Bradux movement holders are ok, and that mainspring winder is adjustable,  I have half a dozen and use them often. The one you have looks like the medium , 7-9mm one.

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Some of these are intended for pocket watches. The two circlular ones with protruding bits - the one with 10 tips is a sleeve wrench, used for adjusting the stem sleeves in American negative-set pocket watch cases. The other with 6 tips is a jewel pusher, used for pushing out lightly friction fit jewels in brass settings which are mostly found on American pocket watches though some Swiss watches use them too.

The Levin tool with the parallel ruby jaws is for poising a balance, getting it to run without any heavy spots which affect timekeeping, and the Levin tool with the thumbscrew between two halves is a truing caliper, used for verifying wheels are straight and true. The one you have happens to be the best type of this tool in my opinion.

Eventually you will need the micrometers for something, but if they measure in inches rather than mm that is less useful.

You won't need most of these for an ST36 or any modern movement, but the moment you pick up a pre-1950 pocket watch and want to make it run well a lot of these will become useful.

If you do decide to sell some, I would expect the Levin truing caliper to be worth about $35 on ebay, and the Levin poising tool is pretty nice with an intact spirit level. If the ruby jaws are not chipped in the middle, that would be worth $50-$75 on ebay. The sleeve wrench and jewel pusher are harder to sell because there are tons of them available. It could bring $30 or it could only be $5 if you were unlucky. Movement holders of various types are always worth at least $15-$20 (some much more but I don't see those here), but I would keep those as you can use them today.

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8 hours ago, mbwatch said:

Some of these are intended for pocket watches. The two circlular ones with protruding bits - the one with 10 tips is a sleeve wrench, used for adjusting the stem sleeves in American negative-set pocket watch cases. The other with 6 tips is a jewel pusher, used for pushing out lightly friction fit jewels in brass settings which are mostly found on American pocket watches though some Swiss watches use them too.

The Levin tool with the parallel ruby jaws is for poising a balance, getting it to run without any heavy spots which affect timekeeping, and the Levin tool with the thumbscrew between two halves is a truing caliper, used for verifying wheels are straight and true. The one you have happens to be the best type of this tool in my opinion.

Eventually you will need the micrometers for something, but if they measure in inches rather than mm that is less useful.

You won't need most of these for an ST36 or any modern movement, but the moment you pick up a pre-1950 pocket watch and want to make it run well a lot of these will become useful.

If you do decide to sell some, I would expect the Levin truing caliper to be worth about $35 on ebay, and the Levin poising tool is pretty nice with an intact spirit level. If the ruby jaws are not chipped in the middle, that would be worth $50-$75 on ebay. The sleeve wrench and jewel pusher are harder to sell because there are tons of them available. It could bring $30 or it could only be $5 if you were unlucky. Movement holders of various types are always worth at least $15-$20 (some much more but I don't see those here), but I would keep those as you can use them today.

Thanks - super helpful!

 

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