I’m a fan of the beauty and simplicity of vintage/antique watches, and as a majorly fun hobby I’ve been recreating many pocket-watch and wrist-watch designs, mostly from watchmakers of yesteryear who are no longer in business-- such as Elgin, Gruen, and Waltham, even some that go back to the late 1800s.

Some of these recreations I do for the technical challenge involved: such as faithfully recreating the “mechanical transition” of the hour disk and the retrograde minute hand of the Courvoisier Frères Modernista jump hour pocket watch from 1905. I have nothing published yet, but see my Courvoisier example below. It was recreated completely from scratch in Photoshop. Took many long nights to figure out the proper math behind the mechanical transitions! Watch it closely just before the top of the hour, there’s a 1 second transition of the hour disk and minute hand from xx:59:59 to xx:00:00. https://www.facer.io/watchface/g2EslnTQ2S?watchModel=ticwatchexpress (it does have modern features, tap the center spindle to toggle the cheat/info panel)

Hopefully I will soon add a few unique designs of my own, and eventually publish the 35+ recreated antique/vintage designs I’ve been tinkering with so far.