Nicholas Hacko Watchmaker

***From Apprentice Corner Today, I’d like to share with you a short story of one Hermann Moebius. Haven’t hear...

***A quick Monday afternoon exercise turned out to be more of a challenge than originally anticipated.   While I was working on Valjoux 775...

*** Once again, I was humbled by your support for the rebelde project. The entire batch of R series was snatched up in less than two hours. ...

*** The biggest product announcement cliché of all time has to be the one starting with "Good news! - Our new gadget is here!" And...

***From Apprentice Corner No book review last week - I was too busy snowboarding! Anyway, straight back to it. This week I read throu...

***Work in Progress We bring you today the update on rebelde50, and exciting photos of the dial being designed: Josh working ...

*** From Apprentice Corner This week’s tool is an odd one. I had no idea what it was used for when I first saw it. The locking system told...

***A rare piece of  memorabilia Here we have a set of 6 pack of Breitling postcards, exclusively available from Breitling themselves. Ph...

***Apprentice Corner Tool of the Week Case-back openers. More of them! Seriously, we can't get enough of these things. Despite ...

***Hey, good news - we're working on rebelde caps! These are protoytpes, just in this morning, but if you'd like one please expres...

***Export of Swiss Watches in Decline Swiss watch corporations are freaking out: the latest data shows that the export of Swiss watches ha...

*** When it comes to watchmaker lathes and manual turning, my skills could be best described as at novice level. I am more familiar with ...

***Putting things into perspective This morning we talked about the size of watch components we routinely handle in our workshop. Any cr...

Probably the most common inquiry we get is “do you do Rolex repairs?” The short answer is; it depends. With the current workload of re...

Rolex Explorer II 1973 Big projects call for big decisions. To finance the acquisition of a CNC watchmaker’s mill, I will be reluct...

Hey, Josh here. This doesn’t happen every day so I thought “let’s frame it”. Two identical Panerai PAM 112 arrived to our workshop ...

At exactly 10pm on August 19, 1930 the arch was successfully joined. Dr JJC Bradfield, the Chief Engineer and father of the Sydney Harbour ...

We had a very special visitor today in the office to meet with Nick: former AC/DC bassist and the nicest guy ever, Mark...

Hello all! It’s time to introduce myself to the world of watch enthusiasts. My name is Raven, and I’m from a small seaside town in the no...