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British Horological Institute LtdEast of Scotland Branch

Saturday 01/11/14 Branch Auction Lot 1

1903 Gustav Becker torsion clock in wooden case, height 12inches. Bevelled edge glasses all

perfect. Disc pendulum and mounting bracket. No pallets. Needs overhaul.

Seller: Alastair Walker Location: Lanark

Reserve: £30



Miniature carriage clock. Height 3.5inches with handle down. French movement with platform

escapement. Runs fast, needs overhaul. Bevelled curved glasses all in good condition.


Reserve: £30



Brass cased French drum movement clock. Rear stamped ‘Made in France’. Running, but needs

overhaul. Height 6 inches.


Reserve: £10



1941 Evershed and Vignoles War Department Voltmeter in original leather case. Working condition.


Reserve: £10



IBM Night Watchman’s Clock in leather case. Movement running and incorporates a paper roll trace.

Includes winding key and lock key.


Reserve: £20



Bench mounted, Austrian, RPV cutting device. Fine adjustment depth of cut and width.


Reserve: £10



Bench vice, in need of attention.


Reserve: £2



Japanese M.K.S. staking tool. Some anvils missing, but all stakes intact.


Reserve: £45



Fortin stick barometer complete with mercury. Hangs on frame and comes with original case.

Incorporates mercury thermometer and fine adjustment Vernier scale.


Reserve: £50



Dismantled Gravity clock. All parts present including a new painted glass dial.

One pinion has a tooth missing.


Reserve: £20



Book (approx. 15cm x 22cm), in good condition, dust jacket with faded spine and small tear at top.

Seller: Zen Chowaniec Location: Lenzie, Glasgow (here today)

Reserve: £2.00



Two off 12” dials and one small one

Seller: Ken Russell Location: Biggar, South Lanarkshire

Reserve: None



Book, 400 day repair guide.


Reserve: None



A box of old clock keys.


Reserve: None



A set of chime rods, approx. 50cm long.


Reserve: None



Assorted dials, square one at the back is 21.2cm, the round one to the left is18cm.

Name: Ken Russell Location: Biggar, South Lanarkshire

Reserve: None



Assorted mainsprings (old).


Reserve: None



Old dial – spandrels made of lead. Approx. height 28.5cm, width 20cm.


Reserve: None



Bit of a musical box – little enamelled flowers. Approx. 2.2cm diameter.


Reserve: None



Wooden patterns for casting a bezel, will produce a bezel around 12.5cm diameter.


Reserve: None



Two French clock dials, largest approx. 15.6cm diameter, smallest 11.56cm.


Reserve: None



Scrap movements - some battery, some electrical.


Reserve: None



Unfinished case for lantern clock (no movement). Approx. height 24cm, width & depth 15cm.


Reserve: None



French striking movements with dials, but no pendulums. Larger dial 14.5cm, smaller dial 12cm.


Reserve: None



Smith’s Astral movements, one with dial. Dial approx. 15cm, movement 10cm.


Reserve: None



Wall clock movement. Dial plate approx. 21.5cm, movement 8cm.


Reserve: None



Two copper plated alarm clocks, approx. 9.5cm diameter.


Reserve: None



A selection of tape and rod gongs, longest rod gong is 25.5cm.


Reserve: None



Eight day movement, approx. 9.5cm diameter, 4cm deep.


Reserve: None



Scrap watches, dials, buttons, etc.


Reserve: None



Clock materials, cords, 400 day suspension springs, etc.


Reserve: None



Brass bezel with glass and sight ring, approx. 30.5cm diameter.


Reserve: None



Case fittings, glasses, pallets, bezels, etc. Largest bezel approx. 10.3cm, smallest 8.2cm.


Reserve: None



‘Complete’ French clock – no case and wrong pallets. Bezel approx. 11cm, movement 8.2cm.


Reserve: None



Weight driven Congreve clock – partly finished (table not included!)


Reserve: None



Large alarm clock (multi-function), approx. 13.5cm diameter.


Reserve: None



Swan neck and wheel for hand lathe. Wheel diameter approx. 13.5cm.


Reserve: None



Long case cords (not Perlon).


Reserve: None



Slate blacking fluid – part used.


Reserve: None



Metamec synchronous electric clock, approx. 21cm diameter.


Reserve: None



Selection of folders and alarm clocks.


Reserve: None



Napoleon hat clock case – distressed! Height approx. 20cm, length 35cm.


Reserve: None



A weight-driven chiming movement (12cm square) and a wrecked striking movement (8.5cm x 10cm).


Reserve: None



For time-switch collectors. Electro-mechanical time-switch 1 (of 5). Working order uncertain.


Reserve: None





Reserve: None





Reserve: None





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Soldering flux - unopened.


Reserve: None



Staking set, virtually complete with one or two broken punches!

Seller: Don Clark Location: Arbroath, Angus

Reserve: £45



11 off Boley 8mm Lathe Collets + 2 others in Moseley Box. Good/Fair condition.

Seller: Ashley Strachan Location: Here today

Reserve: £30

8mm Lathe Collets in Moseley Box

Dia. Manuf.

3.5 AWT

8

10 Boley

12

16

24

28 Boley

36

38

44 Boley

46 Boley

AND TWO OTHERS



27 off Lorch 6mm Lathe Collets. Good/Fair condition.


Reserve: £30 27 off - 6mm Lorch Lathe Collets

Size Condition

0.8 Fair

1.2 Good

7 Fair

13 1xGood/1xFair

14 Fair

16 Good

17 Some pitting

18 1xGood/1xFair

20 Some pitting

23 Good

24 Good

26 Good

27 Some pitting

28 Good

31 Good

36 Good

37 Good

39 Good

40 Fair

45 Good

50 1xGood/1xFair

Plus Interal Cone Collets Sizes 1, 3 and 4


Restoration Project - 6mm Watchmakers Lathe – Parts or Repair (no slack in slides or bearings)


Reserve: No reserve.



Watchmakers Staking Tool – good/fair condition. Meikosha, Japan. Complete – with 136 pieces in

upper section. An additional further 44 miniature fittings in tubes in drawer.


Reserve: £50



Jacot Tool – R Flume Germany – Steiner (Box 285 x 135)


Reserve: £50



The Watch Collector’s Handbook, M Cutmore, 1976. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket

Condition: Good. 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fairly comprehensive survey of the history of watches, their

technicalities, collecting and repair, illustrated with B&W photos and drawings. Book has black cloth

boards. 159 pages.


Reserve: £5



Every Boy’s Hobby Manual 1928 - marvellous read –

More interesting than a modern magazine.

208 printed pages. Articles included:

• Making a Clockwork Motor Boat

• Making a Model Horizontal Steam Engine

• Latest Model Railway Locomotives

• Queer Railway Inventions

• Laying out a Model Railway

• Best from your Wireless Set

• A Loud Long Distance One Valve Set

• Keeping Tools Fit


Reserve: No Reserve



New Rousseau Gents Automatic Retro Wrist Watch in Presentation Case and

Slip sleeve. Big Date Watch Brown Leather Strap / Champagne-Blue Dial

Gold Tone Case.


Reserve: £10



c.1925 HAC Lantern Mantle Clock. Very good working condition. Movement HAC solid plate with

trade mark. White enamel dial – no cracks / very small chips at two fixing screws. Blues steel hands.

Oak case with bevelled glass. Small aperture to see brass pendulum bob. Brass fret arch and large

bell. 8”(w) x 7”(d) x 14”(h).


Reserve: £50



Late 19th Century French clock movement. Samuel Marti & Cie, Paris, with Medaille de Bronze

exhibition stamp. Numbered 6646. Having a 6-inch white-enamelled Roman chapter ring (hairline

cracks between I & II and V & VI) framing partially visible Brocot escapement , with moon hands, the

two-train movement, half-hour striking.


Reserve: No Reserve



1960’s Cyma, Swiss Made Cymaflex Gents Wrist Watch.


Reserve: £5



Hanhart 1/5 sec. Stopwatch. Excellent condition / working. German/Swiss manufacture. Push start /

stop / reset. As used in Rallying and Motor Racing.


Reserve: £10



Carriage Clock Early 1990’s. Rapport of London. 9 jewels.

Needs clean – outside!!!


Reserve: £10




Derbyshire Micro-mill and accessories.

Seller: Gregor Campbell Location: c/o Ashley Strachan, Plains, near Airdrie

Reserve: £250



Countershaft with stand for watchmaker’s lathe.


Reserve: £30



Antique turns (no make).


Reserve: £0



Watchmaker’s Turns by Favorite.


Reserve: £20



Watchmaker’s Parting Off Tools.


Reserve: £10



Jewelling tool.


Reserve: £0



0 – 10 BA taps and tapping plate.


Reserve: £25



Vernier caliper.


Reserve: £0



Moore & Wright micrometer (0 – 25mm).


Reserve: £3



Moore & Wright engineer’s square 4” (No. 400).


Reserve: £3



Moore & Wright micrometer (2” – 3”).


Reserve: £5



Tap & Die Set (0, 2, 4, 6, 8 BA Intermediate and Plug of each).


Reserve: £25



Set of metric Dormer drills, 1mm – 6mm in 0.1mm steps.


Reserve: £25



17 piece BA socket set, ¼ square drive.


Reserve: £0



Meikosha staking tool set, complete (approx. 110 punches, 24 stakes).


Reserve: £50



Boley & Leinen staking tool set, complete (approx. 135 punches and stakes).


Reserve: £50



6mm Lorch watchmaker’s lathe complete with set of collets and adjustable faceplate chuck. Also 7

additional collets & mandrel in plastic box.


Reserve: £350



Complete combination set of two Lorch 6mm watchmaker’s lathes, with 3 axes cross slide, plus

adjustable face plate chuck. Collets, lanterns, etc. etc. Excellent condition.


Reserve: £500



8mm Lorch watchmaker’s lathe with self cantering chuck (internal and external jaws), set of 5 female

collets, diamond faced grinding wheel + 22 collets + etc.


Reserve: £350



Bergeon jewel thickness measuring caliper.


Reserve: £80



Bergeon bench micrometer (0 – 25mm)


Reserve: £70



Jacot tool.


Reserve: £60



Finger dial test indicator (smallest division 0.0005”).


Reserve: £20



Boley screw head polishing tool.


Reserve: £100



Two watchmaker’s depthing tools.


Reserve: £10



Optical centre finder.


Reserve: £25

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