Who makes present day Jewelers Lathes today?
Good Day, I would like to add a few, too. 6.82 x 0.625 mm Schaublin, Favorite II, Favorite III 7.00 x 0.75 mm S-95, ATM-3 Russians too have adopted 7.0 x 0.75 mm thread as standard, and they used it for all of their 8mm watchmaker’s lathes. The same thread was used on two of their basic 8 mm watchmaker’s lathes, the Geneva pattern D bed, the ATM-3 and WW pattern C-95 (S-95) watchmaker’s lathe, both are shown on the images bellow. Except for the thread difference collets are compatible with WW standard in all other respects. I believe that not a single of the Russian factories is still producing any of these watchmaker’s lathes, where, at one time not too long ago, there were many producing them. The best known lathes came from factories in Moscow, Minsk, Harkow and Penza. To the best of my knowledge, they were producing 8 mm lathes as early as nineteen thirties, which most certainly were clones of the German watchmaker’s lathes like Boley of WW pattern and Lorch of Geneva pattern. If a
