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1880 Article-Sawyer Watch Tool Co., Watchmaker's Lathes |
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American Machinist, 07 Aug 1880, pg. 4 |
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Watch Making Machinery
The remarkable increase in the manufacture and sale of American watches is having its natural effect in stimulating the ingenuity of the men who make the tools with which the watches are made. This, in turn, by introducing new and valuable labor-saving devices, tends to enable the watch-making companies to produce better and more accurate work at a lower price, and to swarm upon the watch-buying public in the lively way that brings trade and prestige.
One of the latest competitors, for the confidence and patronage of watch and clock making companies and of jewelers and watch makers and repairers generally, is the Sawyer Watch Tool Company, of Fitchburg, Mass., a number of whose tools are illustrated herewith.
The two lathes shown in the cuts are such as will be readily understood without special description, being also adapted to the wants of amateurs, model makers and others. In placing these lathes upon the market an attempt has been made to offer a closely made and perfect lathe that will do a great variety of work; two sizes, Nos. 2 and 2½, being judged sufficient, to be shown in this connection. In all the lathes made by this company, the hollow spindle and spring chuck are used, such as are in general use in all the watch factories in the United States. Double taper bearings, made of hardened steel, are also a feature in the construction of these tools. |
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1880 Sawyer Watch Tool Co., #2 Watchmaker's Lathe
1880 Sawyer Watch Tool Co., #2½ Watchmaker's Lathe
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