Nicholas Hacko Watchmaker

It was clear: the 6mm crown was simply too small. And a number of you jumped in saying the 9mm crown on our current models was simply too...

A mixed crowd of watchmakers, machinists and watch enthusiasts gathered together once again, this time in Brookvale, for a night of ho...

A small business is like a living organism: constantly changing, evolving, growing - or at times stagnating or shrinking.  For us, the...

Perlage - a traditional watch part decorating technique - consists of small, overlapping circles, achieved with a rota...

An ugly looking, hardened piece of steel transformed into a beautifu...

So what is the big deal with watchmaking and clockmaking, you may ask? In...

Major milestone: we've planted the watch winding stem! 0.6 mm drill travelling 20mm down to create 1.2mm deep hole. The action is at hal...

On Sunday, six hours were spent behind the Schaublin turning the barrel. The end result: about half done. I needed the grooving inser...

To be perfectly honest with you, the novelty of making the most perfect regulator gear wore off pretty quickly. While the machining pro...

It's coming up alright.  The drawings are pretty much done and, with a bit of luck, we will start machining the first parts on Wednesd...

For those of you who are following the progress of the workshop, after about a week of not making any measurable progress...

Earlier this year, while we were literally unpacking and setting up our newly-arrived machinery, Josh and Andrew got a knock on the door fr...

Another busy and productive week. The current 'release' is 2.01 which means we have now moved to top movement la...

This is probably the third or even fourth post on 102 - the most agonising tool acquisition since we decided to get into watch manufacturi...

Watchmaking is all about precision - and taking accurate measurements during the design and manufacturing process is essential. However, wh...

The purpose of this quick report is just that - to provide an update to those who follow our watchmaking progress. Also, we feel that ...

Some hobbyist machinists love it - and others hate it. And, I guess, it is fair to say that those who hate it have actually never got a...

The inner bearing surface of the watch jewel is one of the most 'perfect' surfaces on Earth! Made of synthetic ruby, jewels a...

Yesterday we undertook a practical exercise; the roughing of a piece of 316L steel.  Roughing simply means removing the top layer of mat...