{"product_id":"watch-hand-pressers","title":"Watch hand pressers, set of five","description":"\u003cp\u003eWatch hands are fitted by friction. There is no screw and no clip - the hand has a tube on the back and it is pushed down onto a pivot until it grips. Press it with tweezers and you bend it. Press it with a fingernail and you mark the dial.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFive plungers, aluminium bodies with steel tips, about 95 mm each.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhy there are five\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe hour, minute and second hands sit on three different pivots at three different heights, and each one needs a tip that touches the hand's tube and misses everything else. A tip that is too wide sits on the hand itself and dishes it. A tip that is too narrow goes down the middle of the tube and either does nothing or marks the pivot.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePick the tip that sits flat on the tube. Push straight down, once, and stop when it seats. You are looking for the hand to sit level, not for it to feel tight.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhere it stops\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe seller states aluminium alloy bodies with steel tips and a length of 9.5 cm. They do not publish tip diameters, so we are not going to print a table of them - what you get is a graded range, and you choose by eye against the hand you are fitting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese fit hands. They do not remove them - lifting a hand off needs a puller or a levered presser, because pulling with the same tool that pushed it is how hands get bent.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWork over a cushion and under magnification. A hand that lands on the dial leaves a scratch you cannot polish out.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mikrabench","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47512880021695,"sku":null,"price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0760\/5826\/3743\/files\/Sb4ec5949f5af42cb9a52a737f51738c3m.webp?v=1789875465","url":"https:\/\/arvonelle.com\/products\/watch-hand-pressers","provider":"ARVONELLE","version":"1.0","type":"link"}