A Slide Loupe and a Children's Magnifying Glass



The orange Magnifying Glass actually
belongs to my Daughter
But since I can not find my two watchmaker's loupes Nr. 6 and Nr. 8 (those
are not the magnifications, Nr. 1 is the largest magnification and corresponds
to , this was for a long time my only loupe I had been using. During the
first Bangkok WIS meeting I realized that all my Thai watch friends are equipped
with a small loupe which they seem to carry at all time. I guess, they just do
not wanted to miss a chance to find a real bargain at the Jatujak Weekend Market
:-) This inspired me to buy a small portable loupe, which Julien Josset
identified as a slide inspecting loupe. He works for a magazine and he told me
that he uses a similar style of loupe to inspect and select slides before
publishing.