Koda Design

  • Koda Burgundy Two-Tone

    I’ve never considered a burgundy colour dial, let alone a two-tone watch, as something I would like to own. Recently though I worked on a Seiko SRPD69 and the warm tones appealed to me. This dial design started as a pilot type but I took the basic layout and edited it for the burgundy build. This is a draft prior

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  • Koda Archer

    I recently developed an interest in typefaces. It started with a book, Just My Type by Simon Garfield. It’s full of stories on the design of many typefaces and their designers. I hate to admit it but I now scroll through font sites browsing their offerings just for fun.   Archer started with a typeface called Poor Richard which is

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  • Monochrome 171 – Insert

    It might surprise you to learn that I don’t own any diver watches. I sold my 007 late last year and I just never got around to buying something to replace it. The 171 dial has always been at the top of my list so it made sense to use that in a personal build. I like the simplicity of

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  • Koda Moto

    A nod to my other passion, cars. The dial breaks the traditional logo placement rules and takes cues from the classic three-spoke steering wheel. Dial balance is very important and I take these through many variations, often tweaking by fractions of a mm. Sometimes it might look good on the screen but it fails to pass the naked eye test

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  • Koda Kids

    A fun little project, 26mm to be exact, for the weekend. It’s my son’s first Cars themed watch, and now his first mod. Maybe I should have left it original, being his first watch, but now he’ll have some memories attached to it which will live on in the photos long after the watch is gone. I sanded the dial

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