Introduction My journey to craft my own artifact with a moving part to it is finally coming to the final stretch.  Though this journey was filled with challenges and learning curves, it has been a very fun and interesting experience and I am satisfied with what I gained.  My original roulette-inspired wristwatch initially inspired by…

This Past Week My past week working on this project was spent with half of my time researching watchmakers and practices while the other half was spent perusing online retailers to find sellers that had parts of watches I liked.  My research showed that if you wanted to make your own wristwatch there were 3…

My final project as discussed in previous posts will be a wristwatch with the goal of the aesthetic to match a Las Vegas Casino and directly inspired from a roulette wheel.  However, after extensive research and online shopping, this aesthetic combined with the already difficult task of creating a wristwatch might have been a little…

Choosing My Aesthetic In my previous post, I dived into the vast and intriguing world of wristwatches and the many possible aesthetics that they could fall into.  Ranging from minimalistic to luxurious to an open-concept skeleton watch.  After much contemplation, brainstorming, and ideation, I have decided to mend the mechanics of timekeeping with the thrill…

Project Plan To approach this blog post of brainstorming a wildly different aesthetic and sketching it, I needed to have an idea of what I was going to do for my project.  In this brainstorming phase, I didn’t constrain myself to only thinking about the aesthetic or only thinking about the project idea.  I began…

Initial Thoughts I began my journey with this project, deciding what I wanted to get out of it.  With the project’s specifications to make an upcycled artifact that conforms to a specific aesthetic, it was for the most part as open-ended as we wanted it to be.  I had a few ideas of where to take…