Watch out!

It seems that watch engraving is quite popular . Here are my latest projects. I've been fortunate enough to have requests for completely different themes. Pacific Northwest, Gothic, Cthulu and few regular scrollworks as well.

Aevig Corvid in Cthulu/octopus theme. Runic text on bezel follows the runestone tradition and means something like "commissioned by Eliyahu from Latland, engraved by Viljo from Estland"





Pacific Northwest theme on Halios Tropik B. Bronze was a nice change from the usual hard stainless cases.





Geckota K3 in Gothic architecture theme. With few gold dots...




Kadloo



And of course the ever popular Apple Watches





Here I tried a little Photoshop magic, this is a composite of 6 images to get all areas of the watch in focus. The watch was shot with macro lens, so the depth of field was very shallow, no way to get everything in focus at once. This seems to work rather well.

A broad range and beautiful jobs on these time pieces. Good job Vilts- Fred

You're the man, Viljo! Thanks for showing us your beautiful work. I'm especially fond of the Apple watches.

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Absolutely stunning work Vilts! Love your scrollwork and your other cool designs! The photo trick is cool too! I assume you did not disassemble this Apple watch before engraving it? I ask because I have one to engrave very soon and of course I am concerned about damaging the watch. My understanding is that taking it apart is not a good idea. Any input on how you handled this Apple watch while engraving would be very much appreciated. Thank you.

your work is marvelous. your diversity of style is quite interesting. a treat to my eye !

Viljo

Very nice work. Love to see your posts. Thank you for sharing.

Mike

Thanks for the kind words!

davidshe said:

I assume you did not disassemble this Apple watch before engraving it? I ask because I have one to engrave very soon and of course I am concerned about damaging the watch. My understanding is that taking it apart is not a good idea. Any input on how you handled this Apple watch while engraving would be very much appreciated. Thank you.

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Yes, I engraved it in assembled state. Not ideal, but I don't know any places around here that will take it apart and assemble later on. For myself I 3D printed some fixtures to hold it - nothing was touching the screen, buttons or backside sensors. The 3D printer plastic isn't that hard, so I taped up the watch and it worked nicely.



This was one set of fixtures. The other was to engrave "top" and "bottom" sides, where band is attached.

Thank you Vilts, you are a man of many talents!

Wow amazing works! and cool idea make the holders with the 3d prints, thank you for share!