Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Monaco, Jul 21, 2021

LOT 2

Unsigned
Horological tool; watchmaker’s rounding-up; brass, iron and steel

EUR 1,100 - 2,200

USD 1,350 - 2,700 / HKD 10,200 - 20,300

TO BE SOLD WITHOUT RESERVE

Sold: EUR 1,690

Brass, iron and steel watchmaker’s rounding-up or topping tool on wood drawer, with hand-powered wheel, with 13 milling cutters (or rounding-up cutters or wheel-slotting engine), 12 adapters and 4 runners.


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Grading System
Grade: A

Good
Case: 2

Very good

Brand Unsigned, Franco-Swiss Jura Arc

Year late-19th century

Case No. 4213065

Dimensions 60 x 250 x 165 mm. (approx.)

Weight 3 kg. (approx.)

Notes

Rounding-up cutter
Cutter with fine teeth used by watchmakers for correcting gear-teeth that have already been cut. It has a helical guide, which penetrates between the teeth and guides the cutter without a dividing-plate as used in gear-cutting machines. The precision and interchangeability obtained by mechanical processes are now making this type of cutter obsolete.
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