Watch Time Is It?

two time pieces become one

Posted by ijustwalkedin

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I broke the glass in the face of my favourite watch (I love the chunky leather strap) and was told it would cost more to replace than the watch did! I also have a digital casio (yay old school) with the worlds most annoying clasp, any wild gesticulating and it flies off .... so I used both unusable watches to make one FAB time piece.

I've made a Jesus watch before, using those beaded bracelets as a strap and I bought a watch face that had Jesus on ... might add it later if I can find it.

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You Will Need (2 things)

  • One Working Watch With A Broken Clasp!
  • One Broken Watch With A Good Strap!

Steps (4 steps, 10 minutes)

  1. 1

    find your two watches ... one still needs to be working (telling the time) and the other needs to have a fab strap

  2. 2

    Take the face off of the strap ... they are normally attached by pins.

    I had some trouble with the pins on the broken faced watched so just snipped them (with a lot more effort than that implied) with some jewellery tools

  3. 3

    But make sure you don't break the pins of the working watch face ... you'll need those to attach it to the strap!

  4. 4

    And with a little more fiddly work, attach the working face to its new strap

    ...

    et voila! two time pieces become one.

    (and if you've noticed the times, I hadn't set it at the beginning, it didn't take me several hours, I promise.)