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Watch Time Is It?

two time pieces become one

https://www.cutoutandkeep.net/projects/watch-time-is-it • Posted by ijustwalkedin

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.

You will need

Project Budget
Free

Time

0 h 10

Difficulty

Pretty Easy
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Description

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.

Instructions

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

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    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

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

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    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.)