Mister Lichtenstein
1 min readJun 20, 2021

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Thanks! The watch I had in mind was something to wear while dressed up. The tricky thing with dress watches is that they're usually functionally very different from most other watches. The dials aren't meant to be legible so much as they are meant to be pretty and interesting to look at. The cases have to be small enough to fit under a dress shirt's cuff. It's tricky to make one. I picked up the case from a parts dealer I like. It's modeled after the Explorer case design and it's plenty waterproof, though the eel skin band makes that pretty pointless. The movement is one of Seiko's off the shelf skeleton movements, the seldom-used NH70. Assembling a watch isn't as hard as most people think. It's making the parts that's hard. The only parts I make completely from scratch are dials. The rest I either modify, or just use as stock.

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Mister Lichtenstein
Mister Lichtenstein

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