Hi,
long time lurker, 1st time poster. You might be interested to know that Alchemy Soho in London are using a DMM lathe converted to lacquer cutting by Sean Davies, if my memory serves me correctly this lathe came from Tape One.
As for the rumours of a DMM lathe in France, one of the guys here was speaking to a sales rep @ MPO (a large French 12" manufacturing plant), and they said they are setting up to do 7" again and will be doing their own mastering.
However as nice as the reps are, they wouldn't know mastering from processing. I am planning on speaking to them later to clarify the situation and will update you.
Cheers,
Kev