Tuesday, October 4, 2011

What we do after hours ...

Our 2 Instructors, Henrik and Robert were having a laugh one day during lunch break about how Henrik is not wearing any watch even though he is the Principal of a watchmaking school. Well, this was about 2 months ago. 

So, the dynamic duo embarked on a "perilous" journey to watchmaking doom doing something absolutely blonde. They took a harmless 6498, took it apart, mutilated it at some places, filed some corners, did some perlage, plating and finishing.  Viola ! Counting every 1 hour every other day for 2 months, countless of artistic skirmishes ( Robert thinks he's the better designer. Henrik disputes it totally even though he has only only a few shirts, and he's Swedish so his word is Karl Lagerfeld's word ) and mountains of coffee later, they have this creation. Its not fully finished yet but it should be done very soon. Have a look and comments please ! Robert wants to know he's cooler and Henrik wants to know that he is cooler than thou.  


Rob and Henrik just fitted a random dial they found lying around to the watch first .. The final dial design should be done soon ...


This is the highlight. Its plain and boring in front but something spectacular behind. For now, there's Black Rhoduim, perlage, rose gold, sandblasting and some corners etc etc. There'll be macro shots coming when its all done.


There's some portion removed at the main plate surrounding the barrel wheel. It can't be seen now because its not finished yet but when its done, we should be able to see some awesome finishing and inside corners !


Last pic of the watch back !

Thats it for now ! When it's fully finished, more pics to come ... And now that this is out, we are thinking of making the bridges all black and sandblasted !

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