Our 37 years old Toro snowblower, still with its original spark plug, always starts with the first pull of the chord. The machine is rusting a little but I will take that over the new plasticky models. It is not self-propelled which means that with deep snow on has to shovel a lane before starting to push it. One thing for sure, it keeps me young.
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Probably my Linn LP12, but I will have a think. No, my wife’s sowing machine which gets used every 15 years .
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If I had a snow blower it would probably be like new after 100 years provided in a dry place (no sniw to blow!)
Toyota Yaris 24 years, still going strong.
Toyota Corolla Verso 20 years, virtually no problem until recently, a worn injector making slow starting (but still does, reliably).
Zanussi Induction hob 18 years.
Whirlpool freezer has just died, so presumably doesn’t count, but lasted at least 21 years,
That’s all that come immediately to mind, assuming hifi kit doesn’t count as machine or appliance?
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Oil fired central heating boiler and Aga were installed when the house was built in 1995. I asked at the last service a few weeks back and the engineer advised it would be foolish to replace the boiler due to robust nature of the existing lump and insignificant efficiency improvements offered by a current equivalent model.
If we include hi-fi I guess my Nait 2 takes top spot.
Peter
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Henry born 1991 is still in daily service here! 
An old photo; he had a rhinoplasty since and is a lot better for it.
I like the fact despite all the years we’ve been together he’s never stopped smiling.
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A 33 year old Phillips-Whirlpool fridge that has just, in the last month, failed and had to be replaced.
Lets see how long the new one lasts, I doubt it will be anywhere near 33 years.
This is my Polyphon, which belonged to my grandad. It’s from around 1895, and it still works, despite never having been serviced.
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…which got you into hifi…
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Something to aspire to. My Kenmore Elite refrigerator is 20 years old. Starting to have trouble finding the water filter cartridges at this point.
Excluding my A&R A60, the oldest appliance would be my Sanyo rice cooker from 2005.
But I have several things from the same era which to me still isn’t very old.
Though tangentially, for servicing appliances, I have wire cutters and a couple screw drivers that were my dad’s. They passed in the early 80s but have been, between him and now me, to the four corners of the globe. He bought them in the early 60s. I still use electrical tape off the same roll he bought 6 decades ago.
Oh wait, I still have my Super Nintendo from 1991.
LP12 from ‘81 or ‘82.
Meridian 101/103D from around the same time.
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Olivetti M21 from 1986 with still working dos 2.11 floppy disks …
It was my gateway into IT
I still have my Psion Organizer II from 1986. I do have to take the battery out when not using it though, even when new it used to eat batteries at a rate of knots 
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My longcase clocks. Both circa 1775 and still working.
This is a 30 hour (wound daily).
This is an eight-day with date and second hand (wound weekly)
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Just replaced a 22 year old Meile washing machine that was showing signs of end of life trauma.
My trusty Pioneer A400 integrated amp from 1995 is still in daily use boosting the sound from the TV through a pair of Celestion Ditton 15s from 1975.
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That reminds me we have a rice cooker from mid 1990s, that worked well until last week when it switched itself from cook to warm midway and refuses to go on full. But we only used it when making a lot as doing enough for 2-4 people is so easy in a pan.
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A Philips hand mixer from 1972 which belonged to my mum. Still works and could probably mix cement given the torque it produces.
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I probably won’t get another 5 years out of it sadly. The control dial encoder is nearly shot and out of production and the internal timer battery is highly unusual and only available in batches of 5000 and the silicone seals are starting to harden.
But it was the last model Sanyo made before they ceased to exist and it was a brand I was fond of back in the day.
I do find them easy for even making one bowl of rice. And they are so energy efficient being almost like IH pressure cookers.