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Chris Shelton	16/07/2016 11:28:16
92 forum posts 46 photos	Found this at a boot sale today, does anyone know what it is used for?
roy entwistle	16/07/2016 11:36:02
1716 forum posts	Polishing pivots on watch staffs
Bill Davies 2	16/07/2016 20:15:26
357 forum posts 13 photos	Chris, it looks like a jacot tool, used to polish watch pivots. It seems slighly different to the normal form which is more symmetrical. Google to find many examples. Bill
Chris Shelton	17/07/2016 11:20:11
92 forum posts 46 photos	Thank you Bill and Roy, I googled jacot tool and found a few examples, all of which seemed a lot more elaborate than the one I have.
Bazyle	17/07/2016 19:42:38
6956 forum posts 229 photos	You have a set or pair of 'watchmaker's turns', either a well made homemade or modern commercial version hence less elaborate than traditional ones. Like this. note the recessed base for holding in vice. A jacot tool is a fixture used in a set of turns for pivot polishing but sometimes used as a term for the whole, especially in continental practice. The little pulley often comes in sets of multiple sizes.
roy entwistle	17/07/2016 20:44:12
1716 forum posts	Bazyle My set of turns has a tool rest ( like a wood lathe )

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