Explore: Watchmaker Lathe

collet and lathe, invented by the American Watch Tool Company of Waltham, Massachusetts. Most lathes commonly referred to as watchmakers lathes are of this

A watchmaker is an artisan who makes and repairs watches. Since many watches are now factory-made, some modern watchmakers only repair watches. However

small parts are cemented, usually with shellac. The book The Modern Watchmaker's Lathe and How to Use it contains tables of makers and sizes; note that it

encompasses patterns created with the rose engine lathe. Where the rose engine is based on a lathe, the straight line engine has more in common with a

Also for securing small parts to a 'wax chuck' (faceplate) in a watchmakers' lathe. in the early twentieth century, it was used to protect some military

Roger W. Smith OBE (born 1970) is a British independent watchmaker. Smith was a Bronze Medallist of the British Horological Institute (awarded to the most

was an English horologist and watchmaker. Regarded by many within the field as a highly accomplished 20th-century watchmaker, Pratt was particularly noted

SL-1000 Unimat 3 Unimat Basic Unimat 4 (lower quality clockmakers/watchmakers lathe with parts interchangeable with the Unimat 3) Unimat Compact 5 Unimat

thread is screwed onto the mandrel. On a lathe, mandrels are commonly mounted between centres and driven by a lathe dog (typically flanged or tapered mandrels)

a measurement system, he invented various tools like hand-powered face-lathe to slide-rules and dixieme gauges. In 1868, Ferdinand A. Lange's elder son