Dr. Watch And His In-House Movement

March 29, 2014

The world of watches is an adventurous one. Let s discover my latest creation!We decided to go back to the roots of Watches and Pencils: From now, we will focus on the illustrations and give a little background story about each drawing in every episode.Dr. Watch And His In-House MovementThis time I wanted to create something around the definition of ‘in-house movement. I started to sketch a true ‘in-house movement : a watch movement into a house. First, I created the movement parts (e.g. wheels, plates, rubies, and screws) and then incorporated other stuff that you usually see in houses (e.g. a hamburger, plant, and a bed). By the time I finished all the parts, it didn t look complete yet. It missed a character living inside the movement and taking control of it. I just had to create a character. A human? An alien? No! A watch, of course: Dr. Watch! Then things got out of hand… I started to create small watches that represent the collection of Dr. Watch.The last part of the drawing means giving the background color. In this case, I decided to put the whole in-house movement into space. It is propelled by the rotating crown on the bottom of the watch movement. When you look carefully, you will see that a part of the movement also has windows that give you a view into space.When I presented this drawing to some of my close watch friends, they also called this one ‘watchception . It kind of makes sense: it s a watch, into a watch movement, looking at his watches.See you at the next one!