Watch box design and lining.

I've lined the mahogany prototype watch box with some red velvet-I think it looks great. The production ones will be maple, I'm thinking about whether or not to use felt or velvet. I definitely love the look and feel of velvet but felt may be more practical and easy to work with. Decisions decisions.

Mokume-gane

Mokume-gane, roughly translating from Japanese to English meaning "wood grain metal". The stuff is pretty cool, not to mention absolutely gorgeous. One of my goals is to bring exciting and exotic materials to the watch world-at an accessible price. This is a continuation of that journey. Here you see the uncut mokume stock, which will become dials and bezel inserts.

Oh yeah, it also fluoresces under UV light, how cool is that?