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  • Casio G-Shock GW-M5610U Button Mod

    I love my square but the buttons have always annoyed me, I don’t want to use my fingernails anymore. I totally get why they’re recessed but it’s beyond reasonable and far from user friendly. I’ve been thinking about how to improve my user experience and I’ve come up with 3 ideas. This is the first one, a 3D printed cap

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  • A Diver

    I can’t help but tinker with my watches. I was perfectly happy with my steel desk diver. It had excellent legibility and I loved the custom hands, especially the minute hand… but it didn’t have lume. I recently picked up some new lume which, by all accounts, rivals Seiko Lumibrite so I decided to try it with a new dial

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  • Music Maker – A blank page

    The joy is to create. I couldn’t agree more with his sentiment. A music creative approached me with an idea to commemorate a big milestone in his carreer. We echanged many emails and I drafted a couple of dials with an assortment of symbols he provided which had personal meaning. At the eleventh hour the brief was changed and the

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  • Casio F-91W Mod

    I know there’s a whole world of Casio G-Shock modding out there but I haven’t tried my hand at any of it. While the F-91W is not a G-Shock, it is a classic watch and I’ve owned a few in my time. Two of them were sitting on my shelf and an idea came to mind yesterday so I took

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  • Modern Vintage – Koda Signature

    The idea was to build something distinctly vintage looking utilising a trio of rings under the indices. It was the rings that were the catalyst for this design and I knew the indices had to be applied. The rest needed to compliment it without detracting from the aesthetic. I wanted to use the indices from a gold PRX dial and

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