December 16, 2009 – 11:06 pm
Absolutely stunning are the first two words that come to mind when I gaze at the pages of this generously proportioned book cultivated by French photographer Guido Mocafico.
In 2007, Mocafico presented a series of 12, large format, 105×105cm photographs of high-end, hand-finished watch movements at Hamiltons Gallery in London, England. From beautifully understated [...]
October 28, 2009 – 7:47 pm
I had some trouble this week trying to find the source of a faint grinding noise that occurred everytime I screwed the crown down in a particular watch I had just finished servicing and casing up. The movement would wind and set flawlessly when the crown was out, but as soon as the crown was [...]
October 6, 2009 – 6:42 am
Aimeri’s recent post on distance education sprouted a lengthy conversation that eventually touched on the subject of tools, with several of our readers requesting more information on what tools are worth investing in and what tools aren’t.
We’ve covered most of the basics, tool-wise, here on the blog already. If you weren’t aware of it, take [...]
September 11, 2009 – 9:45 am
As some of our blog readers are already aware, George Daniels’ meticulously illustrated masterpiece, Watchmaking, is back in print. It has been out of circulation for several years, and prices for the 462 page volume have skyrocketed into the hundreds of dollars on the second hand market, topping out at as much as $525! Fortunately, [...]
September 4, 2009 – 9:59 am
Young German watchmaker, Stefan Kudoke, is soon to be awarded the Brandenburg Zukunftspreis (”Future Prize”) award in recognition of his local and international achievements in watchmaking. Particularly his beautifully skeletonized movements, many of which are based on ETA’s calibre 6497.
In light of J. Peter’s recent post on applying perlage to a 6497 he is [...]
One of the longest standing watchmakers in our shop walked by my bench yesterday and caught me with a small garbage can held up between knees, whittling the tip of a piece of peg wood to a nice, fine point so that I could begin pegging out the jewels in a watch I had just [...]
I plead guilty. I crushed a part under a wheel of my chair for the first time ever today. By no means on purpose, though. I moved the warm air dryer, which I use to dry freshly epilamed watch parts, to a different place under the front lip of my work bench today and didn’t [...]
We’ve talked quite a bit about the movements that run inside of Rolex watches here on the blog, and with good reason. They are among the best engineered mechanical watch movements currently in production. One of the most commonly employed Rolex calibres today is the 3135, and is a prime example of where the evolution [...]
J.Peter has already done a comprehensive job of answering a common question we get here on Tick Talk, regarding how to become a watchmaker, in his post before Valentine’s Day aptly titled So you want to be a watchmaker. In a comment written by one of our readers, just prior to that post, Philip also [...]
We have mentioned barrel closers quite a bit here on Tick Talk recently. J.Peter first made reference to his set in a post exactly one year ago this week, it came up again in his post on simple tools, and we gave a set away to one lucky commentator back in February. One thing we [...]
