Rose Engine
Bruguet, A. L.
Paris, early 19th century
Desription
This “rose engine” is a machine that makes ornamental turned designs, from the Shop of A. L. Breguet. Fourteen rosettes are produced, using a 15 1/2 in. brass drive wheel with 400, 300, 240, 192 and 60 divisions, and numerous additional division nodes. It has a wooden handled tension adjustment, 9 1/2 in. dia. headstock with dove-tailed slides and index attachment and a bench-mounted slide rest with threaded advance, tool bit and engine turned ivory handle, front mounted hand wheel and 25 in. dia. drive wheel to rotate the headstock, all on the original walnut bench.
The slide rest is probably a replacement from the end of the 19th century or earlier, done by the House of Breguet to modernize the machine.