When I last spoke to Darren I said he could ring or message anytime on the install day - Friday (which was late Friday night Australian time). He said
“Hopefully you don’t hear from me and you wake to a photo of the Watch all finished with the Arc de Triomphe in the background!”
This morning I woke to exactly that! Nice work Darren!
There she goes! All packed and ready for air freight. 5 days transit with 2 days spare - let’s hope it gets there and in one (time)piece!
This morning I finished the last bit of strap and fixings. Now to get it all packed for air freight to Paris, France!
Yesterday we installed the massive LED screen in the body where it will now stay right the way thru transit and installation. It’s heavy! I’m estimating 30 - 40 kgs with everything attached.
Therefore a little nervous the stand is going to be inadequate, but with some added ballast I think we can get it over the line.
Now Darren has to do the final tweaking and resolution adjustments, but for the most part I've just got to get these straps made.
Today I picked up the main. watch components from the painters and WOW! It’s looking amazing. The products used are quite new and I have never seen such an amazing sprayed chrome.
The stainless steel colour is also amazing and the painter has even added some fine machining lines to replicate the actual watch.
The only issue being that if you put clear coat on the chrome is loses it’s lustre so they have opted not too, which scares me as fingerprints could be an issue. But I’m super happy with way it’s turned out.
One of those lovely occurrences where you need the perfect supplier… and you met that person not long ago!
To get the perfect vinyl/reproduction leather I hit up Dave who recently knocked up a new bed and seat for my Kombi. He has so many vinyls to choose from I knew he’d have something and stoked to get two colours with textures almost identical to the actual watch. Thanks Dave.
Finally we have sign off on the rest of the set up.
This was a tricky one as I had to push the main parts into production A LOT earlier than you usually would so some aspects I had to work around. I’m confident it will still all go together. Famous last words!?
Back in 2016 I was asked to make a “Pear shaped tea caddy”! Okay then! it was for an online multimedia treasure hunt of sorts - the treasure was to find out if faeries are real! I had a fair bit of fun making the caddy.