A steel 6mm watchmaker's lathe Unsigned, German or Swiss, early 20th century With channelled round-section steel bed applied with one-piece headstock enclosing three graduated drive pulleys to the spindle, with simple toolrest, compound X and Y adjustable toolpost and tailpost with adjustable spindle, mounted via a tongue to the underside of the headstock onto an adjustable foot drilled with holes to the base flange for bench mounting, the bed 25cm long, with a conforming bench mounting transmission pulley post, (2). Details such as the channelled round-section bed shape of the casting for the headstock suggests that this lathe was possibly made by Lorch, Schmidt & Co.
A steel 6mm watchmaker's lathe Unsigned, German or Swiss, early 20th century With channelled round-section steel bed applied with one-piece headstock enclosing three graduated drive pulleys to the spindle, with simple toolrest, compound X and Y adjustable toolpost and tailpost with adjustable spindle, mounted via a tongue to the underside of the headstock onto an adjustable foot drilled with holes to the base flange for bench mounting, the bed 25cm long, with a conforming bench mounting transmission pulley post, (2). Details such as the channelled round-section bed shape of the casting for the headstock suggests that this lathe was possibly made by Lorch, Schmidt & Co.
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