Koda Design

  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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