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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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  • Koda Dichromatic Desk Diver

    The idea was simple, a high contrast black and white diver with high legibility. One thing led to another and then this… When an idea bites it can consume me until I realise it. I’m not the most patient person though and I often build with the parts I have on hand. With this build I had to wait for

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