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The first of a few vids planned on the subject.

Printing is cheating. Oldschool hand painted is where it's at. B)

Mr. Mailman brought this for me today. Seems to be running fine, a bit fast according to my Timegrapher. Hopefully will just be a simple service and regulation.

Found out something else cool about this movement. The balance wheel is made out of an alloy called "Glucydur" According to Wikipedia: Glucydur is a beryllium bronze; an alloy of beryllium, copper and iron. In addition to its low coefficient of thermal expansion, its hardness (400 Brinell), nonmagnetizability, and resistance to deformation and damage make it suited for making precision parts that must have high dimensional stability. Glucydur is also resistant to corrosion; it is rather inert chemically. So that is kind of neat too.

Lol - indeed :) I was surprised that Keynote had that as well. But it is very basic, you cannot set pivot points (so no good when I want to demonstrate the escapement). I might do it in flash next time or toonboom.

Great video, can't wait to see the whole series. Soon the mods will have to stop recommending the TimeZone courses and just link people to a playlist of your best videos.

Completed with worktop mat and Ikea lamp, will get a better rectangular watchmaker lamp if I can get it here at reasonable price. Now I can do more hours on it. Affnan

I agree! :) Although I think calling someone's work an "Abomination!!" borders on that. :) :) By the way, the decal paper produced much lower quality results than the photo paper. For one thing, the surface of the decal paper is not as uniformly absorbent as the photo paper, resulting in some ink pooling and some dry spots. To get around that, I applied two layers of decal, since it was unlikely the dry spots would would coincide. Unfortunately, the slightest misalignment (even 1/1000th of an inch) then results in fuzzy edges. I may attempt another "decal watch" with a light background, where hopefully I'll need only one layer of decal, and I also have another "photo paper watch" planned. Better cover your eyes! :)