Donnington Priory Salerooms

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A steel 6mm watchmaker’s lathe
Unsigned, German or Swiss, early 20th century
With channelled round-section steel bed applied with onepiece
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.
£120-180
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A German steel staking tool and four Swiss turns
Various makers, 20th century
The finely engineered nickel finish steel staking tool stamped
Germany to underside, in original box with an extensive
selection of stakes, the box 18cm wide; with another staking
tool and two various boxed sets of stakes; and four near
identical Swiss steel watchmaker’s turns including a boxed
example stamped FAVOURITE with 17cm bed adjustable
poppets and a small selection of accessories, (one turn
incomplete, another lacking toolrest), (8).
£70-100
01635 553553
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A Collection of brass-framed watchmaker’s tools
Various makers, English and Swiss, 19th century
Comprising a Lancashire pivoting tool with one-piece frame
16cm long; a Swiss Jacot tool (incomplete); two screw
head tools (both incomplete); a mainspring winder (lacking
top bar); a depthing tool; two brass pivot frames stamped
FENN; another unmarked; a small cased pivoting tool and
one other item (11).
£100-150
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Three similar Swiss steel turns
Two by L. Hugonoit-Tissot, 19th century
Each with rectangular section bed mounted with shaped
poppets and toolrest, the larger 24cm long the two smaller
examples stamped L. HUGONIOT-TISSOT and L.H.T.,
17.5cm long, with an extensive selection of accessories
including runners, a graduated set of pulley wheel arbors,
screw ferrules etc, (qty).
£80-120
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