Clicky

Sharpen and Polish your gravers with Diablade wheels Find out more

FREE UK Delivery Over £60

OUR BLOG

12 Essential Tools for your Watch Repair Kit
17th May 2023

12 Essential Tools for your Watch Repair Kit

Watchmaking and watch repair is a very exciting profession but with a huge selection of watchmaker tools on the market, it is very easy to get confused or even carried away.I thought it may be helpful to list down some of the most essential watch repair tools that any serious…

Read The Full Article

35 of the Finest Clock and Watch Schools Around the World
30th May 2019

35 of the Finest Clock and Watch Schools Around the World

Eternal Tools has drawn up an alphabetical list of some of the finest clock and watch schools around the world to help you decide where you would like to study Horology,  the study and science of time and time keeping

Read The Full Article

17th September 2014

Interview with Watchmaker and Repairer Jim Sadilek

Interview with Jim SadilekMechanical devices have always interested me. Being born in the late thirties, when I was a teenager in the early fifties, cars and motorcycles were cheap and sufficiently simple mechanically that one could perform repairs without needing expensive equipment. At age 30, 1968, I was working as a heavy equipment mechanic

Read The Full Article

12th September 2014

Interview with Brad Taylor of Taylor Horology

Brad Taylor Horology Interview

Ever since I’ve been young I’ve always been compelled to find out how the things around me worked. I would take things apart, anything I could get my hands on and hopefully put it back together. I remember when I was 10 and my parents found me in my room with a new toy helicopter in pieces all over the floor - and me with a screwdriver in hand.

Read The Full Article

11th September 2014

Mike from the Kibworth Clock Company shares his Horological Story

Kibworth Clock Company InterviewI’d like to tell my story and hopefully help inspire others to develop previously unknown skills and abilities and keep the world of mechanical timekeeping well and truly alive and ticking.

Read The Full Article

9th September 2014

Interview with Aditya Sambhare and his Love for Skeleton Watches

Aditya Interview Skeleton Watches

I am a qualified architect and industrial designer. My final project for the masters program in industrial design was related to time. I spent countless hours pouring over the wonderful books on horology in the institute library researching my project. I think that is where my love for mechanical timekeeping was born. Later I discovered ebay and English fusee watches. With no one to fix them here I learnt how to do it myself.

Read The Full Article

3rd September 2014

Interview with Electronic Musical Instrument Restorer and Horologist Ron Lebar

Interview with Ron Lebar

I have always been fascinated by the concept of time. We know almost nothing about it, we do not know if it even exists. It is obviously not the 'fourth dimension' as it is so often called. Time. We can not measure it, we can not travel through it, we can not exert any control over it. All we can do is record its passing, with ever greater accuracy.

Read The Full Article

21st August 2014

Swiss ETA Watch Movement Parts List with Images

Swiss ETA Watch Parts

I thought it might be useful to list down the Swiss ETA watch parts together with an image for reference. I know from personal experience that whenever I have attended a watch making course the experienced tutors are able to recite each watch part number from memory.

Read The Full Article

20th August 2014

Interview with Clock Maker and Restorer Ray Bates

Ray Bates Interview

My High School Science teacher was a watch collector and thought I'd be a good candidate for an apprenticeship opening at R.L.Christie in Edinburgh where he had his watches maintained. I took the opportunity and served a 5 year apprenticeship as a watch and clock maker.

Read The Full Article

18th August 2014

Jordan Renaud's life and studies in Antiquarian Clockmaking & Conservation

Jordan Renaud's life and studies in Antiquarian Clockmaking & Conservation

It's been 25 years since I first started working with clocks as a profession. Prior to that it was a hobby and a passion. A few cuckoos and Korean junk in the early days rather quickly made me realise I had better look into going with my interest in old English work sooner than later.

Read The Full Article

Receive our Newsletter and exclusive discounts
Ecommerce Platform by ShopWired