D.I.Y your custom watch

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Hello everyone, To begin, sorry for my bad english. Today I would like to present to you a personal project (my first) on which I have been working for several months. I am a novice on the Blender software and I sought with this project to improve myself and to create my first real challenge. It took me nearly 3 months and a good dozen prototypes before arriving at this result. My goal now is to completely finish this project (The Great Wave) before starting others (example: solar system, planet by planet with customized caseback and dial). The elements that I had to buy because it was impossible for me to print are: - the mechanism => Hattori/Seiko PC21 (8€) - mineral glass => 35.9mm (4.20€) - the hands => 1.20mm & 0.70mm (5.60) - the strap => 18mm silicone strap (12€) So for a little less than 30€, I have the non-printable elements allowing me to make a custom watch. (I took all of these elements on the French site: my-montre.com - But I know that you can easily find even cheaper for the same). I'm really into Opensource and sharing. Everything I do (digitally) I make an edit/simplify copy that I share without restriction. There are 2 version of this project : - holder and dial separated => the original version - holder and dial wired => like the name, the dial and the holder element for the mecanism is wired in one element... easy to use but diffucult to adapt Disclaimer !! => this print need a very good precision, sla printer with 10 micron (0.001mm) is recommended. I am not responsible for the non adaptation of the elements purchased on these files. This worked for me BUT I had to make changes by hand because it was impossible via Blender (layer too thin) I make for my-self a custom Caseback (Japan style) with resin-filled technic. You can see it on this Reddit post (I don't share this version because otherwise my watch will no longer be a limited edition :P) : https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/13z9gws/my_custom_watch/