Wrist watch

Jun 21, 2020,15:10 PM
 

I have been thinking of using this design as a wrist watch and have done a few preliminary drawings.
To utilize the layout of two barrels under a Walter truss bridge and have the winding crown at 3 o'clock means the seconds sub dial will have to be positioned around the 8 or 10 o'clock and not at the 6 o'clock position.
I am interested in what collectors think of a dial with the sub seconds in a non traditional location.
Another option is to design the watch with sweep seconds.

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Azur, l'heuer bleue...

 
 By: David Walter : June 21st, 2020-10:33
A bespoke all Made in USA watch. The coin edge case is Tantalum including the crown and the bow. The hands are bespoke DW flame blued steel, the dial is engine turned silver, specially designed for Azur. Tantalum is a challenging and difficult metal to wo...  

Congratulations David

 
 By: Brandon Skinner : June 21st, 2020-10:39
I would LOVE to see this one day.

Very beautiful!

 
 By: mdg : June 21st, 2020-10:47
...any plans to downsize the design for the wrist?

Absolutely gorgeous David!

 
 By: sham1 : June 21st, 2020-10:48
I love the dial layout and the movement. Can this same dial layout be incorporated into a wrist watch?!

Wrist watch

 
 By: David Walter : June 21st, 2020-15:10
I have been thinking of using this design as a wrist watch and have done a few preliminary drawings. To utilize the layout of two barrels under a Walter truss bridge and have the winding crown at 3 o'clock means the seconds sub dial will have to be positi... 

I love non traditional placements of the subdial

 
 By: Cozmopak : June 21st, 2020-15:34
And there is definitely a precedent: ...  

Thanks for your reply David

 
 By: sham1 : June 21st, 2020-18:58
I personally prefer the sub seconds dial over the sweep seconds. Although the sub seconds dial at 6 o''clock would be ideal, I may consider one at 8 o'clock but really need to see the drawing as the dial may look unbalanced.

Remember

 
 By: Weems@8 : June 21st, 2020-10:49
GD kind of dial. Interesting pocket watch.

wow! 😲 [nt]

 
 By: LS : June 21st, 2020-11:45

Very nice, David.

 
 By: Cozmopak : June 21st, 2020-14:19
It looks like Marco Lang will at least be partially blueing his balance bridges as well. From his instagram: ...  

Thanks. And Bravo! [nt]

 
 By: amanico : June 21st, 2020-23:10

Absolutely stunning! I love it

 
 By: Mike H : June 21st, 2020-17:08
This really my stuff, it is just gorgeous! Huge congrats!

Superb work David!

 
 By: Tim Jackson : June 22nd, 2020-12:46
This is simply brilliant. Cheers, Tim

Amazing work! [nt]

 
 By: matto1 : June 24th, 2020-19:42