Koda Design

  • Tempus Fugit – Memento Mori

    Tempus fugit, memento mori Time flies, remember death A gentle reminder to live your life to the fullest. I was thinking about this watch (#1) recently and then last night an old customer of mine (#2) made a comment in private about it – which got me thinking even more. You wear a watch and you glance down to read

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  • Ace King – Variance Master

    The Ace King is a poker themed tool watch design collaboration between myself and a poker enthusiast. Many of the elements stem from his ideas and I just translated them to a watch I was capable of creating. After a lot of back and forth we settled on this design.   The main element is the white percent ring which

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  • A Diver – Version 2

    I’ve been playing with the A Diver design for a while now. It has made appearances in a few builds, some personal and some for customers. This latest design is close to its final version. The only improvement left is to have molds made for index frames… but that’s a story for another day. I started with a Watchdives BB54

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  • Morse Koda

    I don’t have access to expensive and complicated pad printers, nor do I know how to screen print. My main machine is a fiber laser which is incredibly accurate but also has a lot of limits. You may have noticed that my designs are driven by these constraints and I find it both challenging and rewarding. By embracing the constraints

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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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