What is a "stem screw?"

[LittleWatchShop]

Got these in a lot...cute...but how are they used.

[spectre6000]

Is the wide end is drilled and threaded, or slotted?

[LittleWatchShop]

Just now, spectre6000 said:

Is the wide end is drilled and threaded, or slotted?

Slotted

[Neverenoughwatches]

3 hours ago, LittleWatchShop said:

Got these in a lot...cute...but how are they used.

Dont these hold the release bar for the stem. Full length to be cut to size. 

[Mark]

Never seen these in an assortment before, but they look an awful lot like Chronograph pusher screws - I imagine the thread section gets reduced in length to fit. I'm probably wrong

[Neverenoughwatches]

1 hour ago, Mark said:

Never seen these in an assortment before, but they look an awful lot like Chronograph pusher screws - I imagine the thread section gets reduced in length to fit. I'm probably wrong

Haha. Like a wild stab in the dark, which is something I've been expecting for years

[nickelsilver]

I think Mark could be right. Only thing is chrono pusher screws tend to have a finer thread (what a pain if you have to make one...). Or they're for bracelets?

 

They don't have a proper shoulder after the thread, so not for detents or the stem bar on old pocket watches, and they'd be too long on the unthreaded part for even a really old pw.

[Mark]

Pocket watch pendant bow perhaps? But unthreaded section looks too short so perhaps not. 

[LittleWatchShop]

It is a mystery. Of all the stuff that came with this lot, there is a considerable pocket watch theme.  But these are so large...maybebtheybwere for small clocks.

[spectre6000]

If we're talking clocks, another photo with something for scale may be helpful? 

[LittleWatchShop]

7 minutes ago, spectre6000 said:

If we're talking clocks, another photo with something for scale may be helpful? 

I will do that tomorrow

[LittleWatchShop]

22 hours ago, LittleWatchShop said:

I will do that tomorrow