Watch Making / SM #2

My second Self-Made Watch - the One-Handed Watch:

I've seen a couple one-handed watches elsewhere on the internet, and I thought they were really unique and interesting, so I decided to have a go at it myself. My interpretation makes the watch as simple as it can get - no date window, no automatic movement. It's a good old hand-wind, and it tells you nothing but the time.

Although perhaps a bit odd at first, it is easy to read once you get the concept. There are 6 markers per hour: The largest, with the numeral, is the hour. The 2nd largest, halfway between the hours, is the 1/2-hour marker. The four smaller markers are 10 minutes. So in the image below, you can see it is "almost four o'clock". Simple!

Like my first watch SM #1, this watch was also made with off-the-shelf parts. The main difference, for me at least, was that from start-to-finish, SM #1 took me about 2 or 3 weeks of evenings of planning, tinkering, trial-and-error, and so forth, before I had it at a stage I was happy with. SM #2 here took me oh, about 2 hours from start to finish.

So there's definately progress - I'm more confident, I can handle the watch-maker's tweezers and screwdrivers and handsetter and so forth without nervousness or anxiety.

I have attempted to keep the design as simple as possible. The numerals and markers are kept rather plain and (hopefully) subtle. My name (in Cyrillic) and mon are the only 'decoration'.

I selected the blue-steel leaf hand for two reasons: First, it comes to a very fine point and makes it easy to read the time with 'precision'. Second (and practical), it was available in the dimensions I required (12.7mm, 1.3mm hole)

The dial here was designed in Appleworks, scaled and sized in Graphics Converter, and then printed onto ink-jet label stock with my high-resolution colour ink-jet printer. I then punched the centre hole and then applied it to a brass dial-blank. The label was then trimmed to fit the dial.

I've "signed" the movement, on the mainspring barrel, using my 0.1mm Artists' stylus. Sooner or later I'll learn how to actually 'engrave' my marks into the metal rather than just writing on it.