Without the key a door can not opened. Tools are the keys to making watches. Historically they were themselves as sculptured and beautiful as the watches they helped build.

A topping tool, for adusting the profile on wheel teeth.

A topping tool, for adusting the profile on wheel teeth.

A depthing tool for 3 gears.

A depthing tool for 3 gears.

A Jacot tool, for polishing and burnishing pivots.

A Jacot tool, for polishing and burnishing pivots.


Restored by André Léchot.

Mr André Léchot has spent the last 40 years restoring, in his spare time antique and vintage watchmaking tools that may otherwise have been neglected or destroyed. His goal was and remains the preservation of this part of horological history.