A German 8mm watchmakers lathe Unsigned, early 20th century The 10 inch circular section steel bed with flattened upper surface and applied with one-piece headstock enclosing three graduated pulleys to the spindle, currently fitted with compound slide toolpost and a tailstock with poppet and mounted via a pivoted disc shaped foot onto a board; with a selection of accessories including adjustable tailstock, spare fixed tailstock and bracket clamp; with a Swiss brass brass rounding-up tool, anonymous, late 19th century of standard form with work held between poppets beneath cutter mounted on a vertical slide frame driven via a sequence of pulleys by a four-spoke hand wheel with serpentine crossings, on tapered brass foot secured to mahogany baseboard, approximately 24cm (9.5ins) high; and a screw polishing tool, probably Swiss, late 19th century, with a selection of collets and lanterns in an oak box, the box 21cm (8.25ins) long, (3). Comparable examples of the three workshop tools in the current lot can found in Crom, Theodore R. Horological Shop Tools 1700-1900: For the Swiss lathe see page 348 (Figure 716) which reproduces a page from the 1912 Beguelin, Piaget et Cie, S. A. catalogue; for the rounding-up tool see page 261 (Figure 456) which reproduces a plate from the 1865 Gustav Boley trade catalogue; and for the screw polishing tool see page 573 (Figure 1143). Condition report disclaimer
A German 8mm watchmakers lathe Unsigned, early 20th century The 10 inch circular section steel bed with flattened upper surface and applied with one-piece headstock enclosing three graduated pulleys to the spindle, currently fitted with compound slide toolpost and a tailstock with poppet and mounted via a pivoted disc shaped foot onto a board; with a selection of accessories including adjustable tailstock, spare fixed tailstock and bracket clamp; with a Swiss brass brass rounding-up tool, anonymous, late 19th century of standard form with work held between poppets beneath cutter mounted on a vertical slide frame driven via a sequence of pulleys by a four-spoke hand wheel with serpentine crossings, on tapered brass foot secured to mahogany baseboard, approximately 24cm (9.5ins) high; and a screw polishing tool, probably Swiss, late 19th century, with a selection of collets and lanterns in an oak box, the box 21cm (8.25ins) long, (3). Comparable examples of the three workshop tools in the current lot can found in Crom, Theodore R. Horological Shop Tools 1700-1900: For the Swiss lathe see page 348 (Figure 716) which reproduces a page from the 1912 Beguelin, Piaget et Cie, S. A. catalogue; for the rounding-up tool see page 261 (Figure 456) which reproduces a plate from the 1865 Gustav Boley trade catalogue; and for the screw polishing tool see page 573 (Figure 1143). Condition report disclaimer
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