Watchmaker tool
As watch tools are tools and small machines of precision engineering referred to mainly by watchmakers for the craft are making clocks and used repair.
History and Development
The watchmaker's tool has historically constantly adapted to the requirements of the manual manufacture of the clock .
In the language not only hand tools and special to be a watchmaker tool devices , but also a variety specially designed for watchmakers applications small machines such as screw cutting machine , wheel cutting machine or Wälzmaschine counted. These were mostly only driven by hand. The best-known machine from this group is the watchmaker's lathe , also known as the “swivel chair” , which is now rarely driven by hand but by an electric motor.
Examples
Spindle drill for lantern drives
literature
- Theodore R. Crom: Horological wheel cutting engines 1700 to 1900 . Florida, 1970
- Donald de Carle: The Watchmakers' Lathe and how to use it . Robert Hale, London. 2nd edition, 1971, ISBN 0-7091-2157-1
- Theodore R. Crom: Horological Shop Tools 1700-1900 . Florida 1980, ISBN 0-9604888-0-4
- Francois Jequier: La Main et l'Outil - Collection de machines et d'outils . Exposition Musée international d'horlogerie La Chaux-de-Fonds, L'homme et le temps, La Chaux-de-Fonds (CH), 1987.
- J.-C. Nicolet: From hand to machine . Editions Scriptar SA, Lausanne 1990, ISBN 2-88012-058-6
Web links
- Hand-operated swivel chair in a box with accessories Picture in Fotowiki
- Two historical wheel cutting machines with circular disks Picture in Fotowiki
Individual evidence
- ^ GA Berner: Illustrated specialist lexicon of watchmaking , tools . Retrieved March 6, 2013.
- ↑ Fritz von Osterhausen: Callweys lexicon. Munich 1999, ISBN 3-7667-1353-1 , p. 73