{"product_id":"watchmakers-screwdriver-set-13-piece","title":"Watchmaker's screwdriver set — 13 pieces, 0.6 to 2.0 mm","description":"\u003cp\u003eA movement screw is 0.8 mm across and its slot is a scratch. Put a bit driver on it and you are holding a fat handle a long way from the work, with a magnet doing the aligning and no idea how hard you are pushing. The slot rounds out on the first turn and then the screw is a problem instead of a screw.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese are the other kind. One blade, one barrel, no bits.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhy the top spins\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe cap turns freely on a bearing. Your index finger sits on it and pushes straight down; the thumb and middle finger turn the knurled barrel. Downward pressure and rotation come from different fingers, so the blade stays in the slot instead of climbing out of it. That one detail is the whole reason watchmakers use this shape and not a handle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe barrel is thin on purpose. You feel the screw bite, and you feel it stop.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat is in the set\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThirteen drivers in \u003cstrong\u003estainless steel\u003c\/strong\u003e, blades \u003cstrong\u003e0.6 mm to 2.0 mm\u003c\/strong\u003e, slotted and cross point. Each is \u003cstrong\u003e9 cm\u003c\/strong\u003e long — short enough to sit inside the hand rather than stick out past the wrist. A coloured ring under each cap means the size you reached for last time is the size you find again without measuring.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOne thing we cannot yet swear to: the exact split.\u003c\/strong\u003e Sets built to this pattern normally run eight slotted — 0.6, 0.8, 1.0, 1.2, 1.4, 1.6, 1.8 and 2.0 mm — and five cross at 1.2, 1.4, 1.6, 1.8 and 2.0 mm. Our supplier publishes the range but not the breakdown, and we have not yet had one of these in our own hands. So take that list as the likely one rather than the promised one. The first set we open, this paragraph gets replaced with a count.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat it is not for\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNot for Torx, pentalobe, tri-wing or hex. Phone backs and laptop cases want the \u003ca href=\"\/products\/precision-screwdriver-set-55-piece\"\u003e55-piece bit set\u003c\/a\u003e instead — different page, different job, and the two do not replace each other.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNot for anything you need to lean on. These are for screws measured in tenths of a millimetre. A driver this thin will twist before a stuck screw moves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhere it sits on the bench\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNext to the \u003ca href=\"\/products\/brass-watch-vise-with-graduated-staff-plate\"\u003ewatch vise\u003c\/a\u003e and the \u003ca href=\"\/products\/watchmakers-eye-loupe\"\u003eloupe\u003c\/a\u003e. Hold the case, see the screw, turn the screw.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eDelivery — this one is faster, and we will explain why\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout six days.\u003c\/strong\u003e Most of what we sell is posted from a workshop in China and takes one to two weeks — including the notice at the top of this page, which is true of the shop as a whole and not of this set. This one is different: the supplier keeps it in a warehouse inside the United States, so it starts its journey already here. Six days is their figure, not our measurement; we will replace it with our own once we have tracking of our own.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFree and tracked. We hold no stock and we have no warehouse of our own.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eAustralia: not this one, not yet\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWe ship this set to the United States only.\u003c\/strong\u003e Everything else in the shop goes to Australia too, free and tracked. This one does not, and the reason is the same thing that makes it fast: it sits in a warehouse that serves US addresses and nothing else. We are not going to quote you a time for a route we have never used. When we find a way to get it there without a three-week wait and a bill at the door, this paragraph changes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e30-day returns from the day it arrives. Return postage is yours, the price of the item comes back in full.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ARVONELLE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47521174421695,"sku":null,"price":39.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0760\/5826\/3743\/files\/S3c67ad0c3a0147ce9d7a464177d6afecZ.webp?v=1790035802","url":"https:\/\/arvonelle.com\/products\/watchmakers-screwdriver-set-13-piece","provider":"ARVONELLE","version":"1.0","type":"link"}