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Hotel Noga Hilton, Nov 14, 2004

LOT 185

Very rare and fine wooden watchmaker's bench equipped with face plate engine, driving pullies, drilling/ polishing/burnishing tool, brass micrometer, steel vice and stool. Very heavy top, seven drawers to the right with locking bar, four in the center, large wooden foot-driven pulley to the left. Face plate engin@Ecentering plate with three dog clamps, spring-loaded centering post, brass bed, driven by a crank wheel and intermediate trans- mission pulley, two-directional slide rest controlled by knurled nut and crank lever, angular cutter adjustment, T-rest. Drilling/polish- ing/burnishing tool: driven via large brass wheel with crank lever, steel arbor terminated with hardened steel plate, single brass foot. Dim. Height with tools 116 cm, width 110 cm In good condition