Horological Tools

Here's another quick one to keep in the books for the future. It's a beautiful PivoFix pivot burnishing tool that well... keeps a ton of guesswork out of the equation! But before going into this tool a bit more, I want to point out that it's one of the many tools currently coming into the stable for a very interesting watchmaker in beautiful Romania, who's starting a venture at @atelier.gabriell and while we don't see any finished products yet, what caught my attention to Gabriel's future project: He's shared some really different and beautiful renditions of the kind of watch he's going to put together. And if you have an eye for design in any capacity, you'll recognize that they're really quite special in today's uber-saturated market! And what's so cool about this tool? Well, as you can see on the right with the dial indicator, it allows you to establish a datum point for how thick your starting pivot is (when nestled into the burnishing cradle) and then, through the use of a finely threaded screw that's right under the grinding spindle, you set the depth you want to arrive at, and burnish away you go!! While with a traditional Jacot tool you need to worry a lot about the angle(s) of the burnisher, and of course a whole lot about the feel of the burnisher as it sits on the pivot, with this, you take a lot of the variables out, and with a very delicate hand you can get to very very tight tolerances. And if you switch out the analogue indicator for a new digital indicator, you can aim for micron accuracy!! They're really quite an amazing tool to have!! Now, back to Gabriel, who's been sharing some of the things he's been doing in his stories lately, and given the effort he's putting into this, it would be wonderful to give him some support to edge him on!! So go check him out at @atelier.gabriell his work promises to be really extraordinary! #horologicaltools #pivofix #ateliergabriell #romanianwatchmaking #independentwatchmakers