Nicholas Hacko Watchmaker

As I look back on the past eight years since we decided to start our own brand, there is an overwhelming feeling of failure. Sure, we h...

Humbling and encouraging: we now have 89 people who will be tuning in to our YouTube broadcast on ‘rebelde day’ (Sunday 17th May @ 10am Syd...

When we interview a new candidate for an assistant job, the first thing I point out to them is that we don't do cold calling. If you are...

This week started with an unusual number of enquiries that can be summed up with one statement: " I am ready to buy, is there any movem...

Our brain is an amazingly powerful computer. It is capable of performing countless complex computations in a fraction of a second. And it w...

The glory days of this scam were the 1970's and 80's. The scam is known as ‘ inflated jewellery valuations .’ What is fascinating t...

The measuring station in the workshop ...

Hyakutake ("The Great Comet") was discovered on 31st January 1996 and its passage near the Earth was one of the closest comet...

The tool pictured here is a spindle probe, the main function of which is to find the location of a bore (hole) in the pictured timascus...

We’ve written articles before about doing some watchmaking work at home for the humble hobbyist. Strap and cell replacements, maybe a 7S...

If you have two components that are friction fit together, where the first one is very soft and other very hard and rigid, how do yo...

If you make things and sign them with your name, then you are a maker. Chocolate maker, or an artist, painter, architect, chair maker, ...

"I meant to write you lot earlier but just got time for it, I hope you are well and having a good Easter.  My story is back in 2005 a...

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The initial "discomfort in throat" quickly turned into a sporadic but annoying cough.  It felt like medium-coarse sand paper (g...

We started shaping metal 12,000 years ago: copper, bronze and gold. The first metal objects were created for their artistic value. After ...

It only cost $200, ...