Inexpensive. Works. Invaluable when you need it.
It does the job. Plenty of plastic dies to choose from, including for rectangular bodies. Definitely not a high-precision tool. But what do you expect for the price? The screw threads are coarse and loose (grease helps). Nothing feels high-quality — it’s some nylon dies, two metal plates and a screw with a T-handle. But for occasional use to replace watch batteries, it does the job without marring anything. One word of advice: I had a lot of trouble getting a fairly large watchback into place using the “right sized” die. No matter how hard I tightened the screw, the back wouldn’t snap into place. The fix was to use a slightly smaller die that focused the pressure more toward the center of the watchback instead of the edges. Once I did that the back quickly snapped into place. Read more





















