Bergeon is a 230-year-old Swiss tool company. They make about two thousand SKUs. Almost every professional watchmaker's bench in the world has a few of them somewhere within reach.
Why it costs what it costs
Bergeon tools are expensive because they are made to be sharpened, dressed, and used for decades — not until the next sale. A Bergeon screwdriver blade is the same hardened steel as the screws it's turning. A cheap screwdriver blade is softer, so it deforms under load and rounds the screw head. The cheap one feels like a deal until the third or fourth movement you put it to.
We have done the math on most of them. The break-even point versus a cheaper alternative is somewhere between the second and tenth use. After that the Bergeon is free.
What we stock
We don't stock all 2,000 of them. We stock the ones we use ourselves on the bench — a 6767-F spring bar tool, a 55-019 crystal-lifts kit, and a few others as we add them. Each one is here because we'd hand it to a friend who asked.
