Projects & How-to - Watch Complications

Glass Industrial Gets An Update

05/12/202001/12/2021

If you follow me or take a look around my site then you will know that I have a nano-brand Ten Six Watches and make custom builds such as my Glass Series. A favorite I regularly wear is Glass 42 (left above). Another model is Glass Industrial (right above), which has more prominent hands. The […]

Casual Dress Projects Ten Six Watches

Pool of Tears

11/27/201901/11/2021

Pool of Tears is Chapter II of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and serves as the inspiration for the next set of models in my Wonderland Series for my nano-brand 10/6. The pooling effect on the dials combined with the colors, hands, and logo remind the wearer of a foreign but familiar setting. Consistent with the […]

Casual GMT How-to Projects Ten Six Watches

Duel Time

10/16/201901/11/2021

Creating custom watches for clients is one of the most rewarding aspects of my watch-related activities. My brand 10/6 (Ten Six) is what I have dubbed a nanobrand, because I build one-off timepieces as opposed to larger production runs. I revel in working one-on-one with a customer to bring our collective vision to their wrist. […]

How-to Tools Vario

Replacing A Hand Wound Movement

08/12/201901/11/2021

Replacing a watch movement is a fairly straightforward task as long as you have the right tools. Circumstances conspired such that I had the opportunity to create a how-to video detailing the process of replacing (swapping) a broken hand wound movement with a new one. The exact details will vary from watch to watch, but […]

Dress GMT How-to Projects Ten Six Watches

GMT Blue

06/10/201901/11/2021

I have really been looking forward to getting this post published and giving more detail on my custom build for a client called GMT Blue. For those interested or curious, I provide quite a bit of detail about the manufacturing process and sourcing of watch parts for an independent maker. The Specs Model: GMT Blue […]

Dress Projects Ten Six Watches

Tea Party (Update)

02/28/201901/11/2021

The first model of the Wonderland Series is now available for sale via my Etsy store. In the first Tea Party post, I described a little about my brand 10/6 (ten six) and introduced the design of the Tea Party model, minus the logo. Well, now it is complete and here are the pictures and […]

Christopher Ward How-to Tools

Resizing a watch bracelet

12/21/201801/12/2021

Watch me resize a watch bracelet by removing the bracelet and a couple links from a Christopher Ward Trident Pro 600. Funnily enough this watch had two different spring bars, which gave me more to talk about! This bracelet uses friction pins (pin and collar, pin and tube), so this process applies to other bracelets […]

Dress Projects Ten Six Watches

Tea Party

10/04/201801/12/2021

Watch Building & Brand Making watches is not trivial, and I am only an amateur. At some point I may do a more detailed post on the challenges I have encountered while watch-building, though I will summarize some aspects in this post. Still, I rely on movement specifications, blogs, and videos in my self-learning. One […]

How-to Movements Tools

Extracting A Broken Screw

07/09/201801/12/2021

This post is a portion of a larger Watch Project that illustrates Sellita SW210 Repair. The best way to understand how you can extract a broken screw from a movement is to watch the video [https://youtu.be/KynGevssTjk]. I used a Bergeon 30209 with extractors (broaches) sized 0.8mm on the side with the broken head and 0.6mm […]

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