Exceptional horologic works of art

Hotel Noga Hilton, Geneva, Oct 11, 2003

LOT 158

Swiss or French, circa 1870. Fine and rare, steel and brass milling machine with provisions for milling precision cones and wedges. Large crank lever wheel driving the pulley, steel bed drilled and tapped allowing the clamping of blanks for milling wedges, two centers, hinged at one end, screw for rise and fall at the other, overhead cutter centered by knurled nut, three leg steel stand. Later wooden base. Dim. 24 x 33 mm. Overall length 52 mm. Good condition.