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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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  • Koda Steel Desk Diver

    My watch box is light on diver style watches so over the weekend I built this desk diver which ticks my requirements. I wanted a simple look with high legibility and a classic style insert with a 60 click bezel which I find more useful than the 120’s. I like slim inserts but with ageing eyesight I need large numbers

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  • Koda Pulsometer Asthmometer

    I recently built a custom bezel insert with a pulsometer and an asthmometer scale which lead to this dial design. As usual there were a few revisions along the way. The original design was with the 12 hour scale on the outside but I quickly scrapped that as soon as I realised the hour and minute hands would partly cover

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  • Citizen Tsuyosa Kanji Dial

    I have wanted to mod a Citizen Tsuyosa with a custom Kanji dial since they were splashed across my YouTube feed months ago. It made perfect sense to pair the two, much more so than with a PRX which has been the flavour of the last couple of years. The dial is a new method I’ve been testing which allows

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  • Voyager GMT… and its voyage

    When the NH34 was released in late 2022 my first GMT build was with a 36mm case. It had a floating dial and a rotating GMT disc on the same plane. I called it the Voyager and it was a neat design but not fully fleshed out. I moved on to other personal projects and shelved the design. This render

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