Hello, Watch design TRIBUTE from my watch company Egard

[egardwatches]

Hello everyone,

don't know if you guys have seen my watch the Shade and Hunter and Adoro but this is a new design I am planning on making eventually based off of the new miyota 9100 movement entitled the Tribute. I don't know if I can physically build it exactly as the reference but maybe I can get it pretty close. Theres a lot of pieces on the dial so I need to see :). I would build it with sapphire crystal top and AR coating with a sapphire crystal exhibition back probably 10 to 20 ATM.

[J-Prime]

I love it!! Good luck with the actual build. The crown guard is the only thing that worries me. I love the look but fear an eventual puncture wound!!

[CADstraps]

Very cool - these renderings are really well done. This design has Welder written all over it, but that is not to say I think you have borrowed or stolen any design elements. All the depth on the dial is really neat - I like it quite a bit, but I think there is too much unused space around the edges - is this supposed to be some 55mm monstrosity? The handset for reading the time looks way too small, to an almost silly capacity. I would play with the depths a bit so that the hour hand can reach the centre marks of the subdials, and the minute/second hands can sneak up to inner edges of the roman numerals.

I like the all black case best, but if I has to choose from these colour options it would be blue, although I think a lime green would look sharp.

[Patman]

Really digging all the layers within the dial.

[egardwatches]

I agree 100% with the hands. It was designed this way because structurally it was easier but it makes no sense from a functional point of view so I am going back to the design to make it work. Yes it is meant to be an enormous watch :). They may not be my favorite but in the end of the day they sell. I already have rendered variations of a green one and yellow one but as you said I think the design still needs adjustment.

Thanks for the great feedback

[egardwatches]

Here is an update

[Otto Phan]

Love it. Very cool design. love all the different elevations. Is the crown guard gone? If so, I think its a good move. This watch has a really cool modern, architectural thing and IMO, I think the crown guard clashed a bit with it. I would say with all the things happening inside the watch case, a cleaner outside blends better.

One other question, can a date window happen on such a watch? If not, maybe lose the month sub-dial and go with a day sub-dial there? Again, really, really nice design.

[egardwatches]

Hey

The crown guard is gone. I think it's cleaner and nicer as well. Also at the size this watch is going to be it would dig in to people's wrists. Unfortunately I built the dial around miyota's new cal 9100 movement so I am pretty stuck with the limitations of the movement. I tried to get a hold of the movement but they won't sell it to me yet lol. Hopefully sometime by next year I can get some. I don't even know what pricing will be like on those badboys.

[keto9]

I love the updated design. I think the crown guard was .... unnecessary? I would go so far as to say that the 2 o'clock crown, if not both crowns, could be made lower profile and less....industrial? Not fond of the assembly or appendage that links the 2 crowns.

The dial, however, is almost perfect. Is it possible to colour the date wheel, to have the background black (dial colour) and the font (indicators colour)? The white background really stands out a touch too much against the black. Please, no matter what you do, please frame or at least bevel the date window, as you have done. Plain without border just looks....unfinished.

[CADstraps]

I just fell quite heavily for the black cased w/green model. Love the new handset. I have the perfect strap planned out for it too. Not that your concept is bad, but as a strapmaker, I can do much better ;)

Agree with the comments about the date window. I know it's probaly another notable expense, but a black datewheel with green numbers (or red, blue - whatever the these is on that model) would really take the refinement of this offering up several notches.


I like big watches, don't get me wrong, but 46mm big. The Flightdecks of this world do sell, yes, but I think you'd have a much wider audience underneath 50mm.