Comments on: Steampunk Watch Design

By: Mottototot

Mottototot — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 01:04:35 +0000

Definately would buy so long as the pairing succeeded bit went

By: Caitlin

Caitlin — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 10:37:31 +0000

I’m in love. <3
I need this watch. It must be made or I might just cry.

By: DieselDragon

DieselDragon — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 02:08:17 +0000

Same ‘ere…I’ve long had a love for Vernean things, and this watch really does look and sound the part! >:-)

The only headache I can see for TF might be in its production: The Planetarium itself looks to be awfully complex – Mechanically speaking – And maintenance might well be tricky as well…If it’s as mechanically complex as it looks, many watch repair shops might not be willing to accept it for repair if one is presented to them.

That said; I’ll cast those concerns aside for the moment, don my drivers cap, and climb back behind the regulator of this fine locomotive…With something like this on my wrist, I’d never be late into Kings Cross ever again! >:-)

By: Ashlynn

Ashlynn — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 14:56:56 +0000

I second what Vesperia said, this watch is fantastic and I love every part of it. I really hope it gets made.

By: Vesperia

Vesperia — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 06:25:21 +0000

I absolutely love it. The design is amazing in so many indescrible ways! I love steampunk and really hope to see this watch get made :3

By: Anders S

Anders S — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 11:13:19 +0000

Thanks! Although I think ‘a bit busy’ is an understatement…=)

By: said

said — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 08:58:33 +0000

I think Samukun made really good comments about this watch already! I would just say this is a bit busy inside the dial and it makes the hands pretty hard to see. But otherwise, that s a great job!

By: Anders S

Anders S — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 10:19:37 +0000

Thanks for the comment!

I wanted to draw attention to the Bluetooth screen, and envisioned text scrolling across it (which unfortunetely doesn’t read perfectly in a still image), and the full text is supposed to be ‘Pairing Successful’. If I made the text small enough to show both words, it would be too small to be readable…

By: Aphosno

Aphosno — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 09:52:30 +0000

Looks like a chronograph with davinci influence. Besides the two shifted dodecagons (wich are very irritating) the design is pretty neat. What is pairing suc meaning? Very good work. If it is too far away from what tokyo flash wants, you must try to sell it elsewhere. Maybe this watch has a role in a fantasy movie…

By: Anders S

Anders S — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 21:46:28 +0000

Thanks, your words to TF’s ear…=)

By: Anders S

Anders S — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 21:45:33 +0000

I’m fairly certain it’s possible (just look at some fo the stuff traditional watch makers like Patek Philippe have done), however it’d probably be hideously expensive…=)
I was sort of hoping against hope to tap into the victorian-romantic-retro-ish-aesthetic…=)

It’s always the strap! Must be some kind of curse…=) I thought about a completely metal strap, but decided against it for two reasons. Firstly, without the leather it’d most likely be fairly uncomfortable, and secondly, with half of it metal the leather can be removed and it becomes a pocket watch instead, with a fob attached to the chain.

By: Anders S

Anders S — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 21:37:39 +0000

Hmmm, interesting points! I hadn’t thought in those terms, but you make a lot of sense. It’d take some doing, but an organically shaped mechanism is a very interesting idea… Cog profiles are tricky things to design (as soon as you don’t use the standard profile), so if I get around to it, it’ll probably take a while… But now I’m getting ideas (Curses, I already have too many=), so I should come up with something…

True, I’ve got enough half-finished things lying around…=)
Animate it? Oh yes, but I think I prefer my blood-pressure where it is…=)

No, it seems the diodes are well in front… No wonder, TF is all about the tech, rather than the mech…=)

Thanks for the encouragement, I like a lot of your stuff too (the solar powered concept is killer, and it really bugs me since it’s the sort of thing I might have come up with myself…=)
I’ve got more things coming… I submitted one the other day, and I’m hoping to finish one more tonight, two more in progress, and then the neo-steampunk idea you’ve just given me…=) Thanks, by the way…=)

By: carlsberg

carlsberg — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 14:03:06 +0000

i like it. there’s a lot going on there, and with parts rotating within other parts i’m not sure it’s possible to actually make it, be nice if they tried though
it’s unconventional enough for tokyoflash, but probably too mechanical for them, although it would be nice idea for them to have a range of mechanical watches too.
i really like the metal part of the strap, but not the leather strap. i’d like to see the metal strap used as the whole of the wrist-strap instead.

By: Spence G

Spence G — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 12:32:09 +0000

Please make this. I am very impressed with it.

By: Samukun

Samukun — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 12:13:18 +0000

The cogs. Well they are perfect for a mechanical watch. They are useful this way. But smaller (half the depth) or rounded they would look more stylish. Maybe you can keep the mechanical topic but rethink it in a modern way. Imagine a curvy line… it looks more pleasant than a zig-zag-line. There are so many things overlapping themselves (7 cog wheels). You could simplify the image, the user sees. The planetarium topic is so cool. But it is translated too traditional. Look at the blue-white strap. Thats a cool thing! It is soft, rounded, elegant, smooth… And then look at the rest: cornerns, angles, edges.

Well it’s good that you submitted and Tokyo Flash posted it. It is better than keeping it on your computer and nobody sees it. It’s a great job, technically. Can you animate it?

Well the ratings… non-LED/LCD-watches generally have not a very good position in here. Traditional looking watches too.

I hope to see more from you. Your time zone watch is cool (except the straps). Thats a fusion of old and new. And now I remember you also made the scaled watch. That style, when you can do something decent like that for the planetatium watch… wow… that would be modern steampunk.