Watchmaker's lathe

Featured watchmaker and mini lathes:

BTM watchmaker's lathe

The BTM was a beautifully-made English watchmaker's lathe. It was built along lines of the original light Swiss 'Geneva' pattern type watchmakers' lathe, but with the addition of a hollow mandrel part and draw-in collets.

Levin watchmaker's lathe

This lathe features precision (class 7) preloaded ball bearings in the headstock.

Other available types

Lorch-Schmidt lathe
Bottum wax lathe
Webster-Whitcomb lathe
Boley F1 lathe
This list is short and unsorted now but will be better.

Literature

The very good literatures is:
The Watchmaker's Lathe by Ward Goodrich

Published in 1903 by Hazlitt & Walker, Publishers,
Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Revised in 1952 by North American Watch Tool and Supply Company.
Reprint by Arlington B. Company, Inc.
Price: $25 (approx)

Much more issues is to be amended through time

Lathe parts, using and repair, new and used collet set, use: turning up, make workpieces, get one hand support