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Hand Engraved Ball Watch

Hand Engraved Ball Watch

Hand Engraved Ball Watch Just finished hand engraving this really cool Ball watch! The collector who sent it to me gave me full artistic discretion and asked me to surprise him. My Irish roots got the best of me and so I cut some Celtic patterns that seem to flow nicely with the watch. He […]

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Rolex Band Engraving

Rolex Band Engraving

Rolex Band Engraving I was commissioned to design and engrave this Rolex band and clasp with the theme of the “5 Elements” which are five states of matter. The densest one is the solid state, also called “earth”. The second state is liquid, “water”; the third is “fire”; the fourth is “air”. The fifth state […]

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Engraved Swiss Watch

Engraved Swiss Watch

Hand Engraved Swiss Watch Before and after pics of a Hublot Swiss watch project I completed for a customer in India. Deep relief hand engraved titanium and stainless steel transformed the look and feel of this well used watch. Hublot creates a very distinct and unique watch which makes a nice canvas for engraving! The […]

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Rolex Band Engraving

Rolex Band Engraving

Rolex Band Engraving I was commissioned to engrave this Rolex band for a thoughtful customer who asked me to include some design ideas that are very important to him. Intersecting lines to represent crossing paths with people throughout life. The wellness triangle and an old ship that represents death which seeks us all but is […]

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Watch Engraving Tribal design

Watch Engraving

Rolex Watch Engraving I was commissioned to hand engrave this Rolex Milguass with a Tribal motif. It certainly is a one of a kind design. My client and I went back and forth until the design was just what he wanted! I engraved this watch with deep relief background removal which gives it a real […]

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Engraved Rolex Sea Dweller

Engraved Rolex Sea Dweller

  Hand Engraved Rolex Sea Dweller This hand engraved Rolex Sea Dweller was done for a client in Europe who asked for a variety of designs that hold special meaning for he and his family. Over 100 hours of deep and bold hand engraving in this lovely, one-of-a-kind watch! You can also see my work […]

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Rolex Watch Engraving

Rolex Watch Engraving

Rolex Watch Engraving with Flaming Scrolls!! I was commissioned to engrave this fine Rolex watch for a customer who is in the fire protection business. He loves the old style scroll and leaf designs but he asked if I could incorporate something related to his business. Thus I came up with the idea of hand […]

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Hebrew Rolex Engraving

Hebrew Rolex Engraving

Hebrew Rolex Engraving I had the pleasure of hand engraving this Rolex Milguass for a customer in New York who requested a very interesting theme. He asked for wave patterns that would remind him of his home near the sea as a boy. He also chose some of his favorite Hebrew verses and symbols. Laying […]

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Vintage Rolex Engraved

Vintage Rolex Engraved

Vintage Rolex Engraved I was commissioned to hand engrave this vintage Rolex for a great customer in Panama. He asked if I could include a “heart motif”, wings and wheels, some scrollwork and a bear which represents his family crest. What a fun project to try and bring those things together on this stainless steel […]

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Rolex engraving

Rolex Engraving

This Rolex engraving was done for a wonderful customer overseas who asked me to include various design ideas that have great personal meaning to them. The hand engraving took well over 100 hours and is done in deep relief style which is extremely time consuming in Rolex stainless steel. This project was a joy to […]

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Rolex Hand Engraved Caseback

Hand Engraved Rolex Caseback

Rolex Caseback Hand Engraved with Gold inlay This project was done for a really great customer who wanted to personalize his Rolex watch. A 24K Gold inlaid 3 letter monogram with a hand engraved border of oak leaves and acorns inlaid in gold. Below are some progress pics showing how the gold inlay is done. […]

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Samurai Rolex Engraving

Samurai Rolex Engraving

Samurai Rolex Engraving This project was commissioned by an overseas customer who requested a hand engraved Japanese/Samurai design. The Japanese characters represent the clients name and are very meaningful to him. Each part of the Japanese design are taken from ancient Japanese culture. Hand engraving the stainless steel Rolex case and band in deep relief […]

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Engraved Watch Rolex Daytona

Engraved Watch Rolex Daytona

Engraved Watch Rolex Daytona – This hand engraved Rolex was a work of joy for me. Francois Pienaar, the captain of the 95 World Cup Championship Rugby Team from South Africa contacted me and commissioned me to engrave this watch for him. He asked me for a Chinese theme that included a dragon. Well over 120 […]

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Hand Engraved Watch Dial

Hand Engraved Watch Dial

Hand Engraved Watch Dial is featured in this 26 jewel Swiss automatic movement custom watch I recently finished putting together. The rotor is also hand engraved (see pic below). This is an experimental project I have been wanting to do and so I slipped it in between customer projects. Hand engraving a watch dial has […]

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Hand Engraved Watch Band

Hand Engraved Watch Band

An ocean loving customer who lives on the Gulf coast asked me to hand engrave his stainless steel Rolex watch band with an ocean motif. He mentioned that he loves to fish and enjoys a variety of fish, crabs and shells found in his area. He also asked to have his zodiac symbol for Cancer […]

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Hand Engraved Cartier Watchband

Hand Engraved Cartier Watch Band

Hand Engraved Cartier Watch Band A popular European jazz and pop singer from Switzerland asked me to hand engrave the band of his classic Cartier watch. I tried to keep the design simple but elegant and in harmony with this beautiful time piece. Hand engraving the quality, very hard solid stainless steel in this band […]

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hand engraved rolex datajust

Rolex Hand Engraved

Rolex Hand Engraved This Rolex Datajust was designed and hand engraved by yours truly for a very nice gentleman in Southern California. He asked me to fully hand engrave this nice Rolex watch including all the links in the stainless steel band. I lovingly and carefully spent well over 100 hours on this project. There […]

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Engraved Rolex

Hand Engraved Rolex Milgauss I was commissioned by Bamford Watch Department in London to engrave another Gothic theme design on this Custom Rolex Milguass and asked to include the number 13. All the engraving is done in deep relief fashion which is extremely time intensive but I think well worth it. I think this lucky […]

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hand engraved rolex watch

Hand Engraved Rolex Watch

This Hand Engraved Rolex Watch was designed and carved at the request of Bamford Watch Department with offices in London and New York. I was asked to include some skull designs and to create a gothic look and feel to this Bamford Rolex Milgauss. I spent over 100 hours hand engraving this watch under a […]

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Hand Engraved Rolex

Hand Engraved Rolex

Hand Engraved Rolex Watch I was commissioned to design and hand engrave this Custom Rolex Milgauss by Bamford Watches in London for a customer who asked for three of their favorite things to be included; hummingbirds, kingfishers and succulent plants. I was also asked to include a company logo into the design. Those four items […]

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Engraved Watch Case

Engraved Watch Case

Hand Engraved Watch Case This stainless steel watch case was hand engraved for a very cool customer in Singapore. He liked my design style and asked me to come up with something to make his favorite wrist watch look special. The one piece bezel and case was tricky to hand engrave in a few areas […]

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Hand Engraved Rolex Milgauss

I recently had the honor and pleasure of completing this hand engraved Rolex Milgauss for Bamford Watch Department based in London with offices in New York and around the world. The business was started in 2003 by George Bamford and has been based around the personalisation of various iconic sports watches from some of the major brands […]

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Hand Engraved Apple Watch

Engraved Apple Watch

Hand engraved Apple watch and band This 42mm stainless steel hand engraved Apple watch was done for a customer in Virginia. His request for the design was to go with what I thought would look nice but to include an anchor and rope somewhere in the design. As shown in the pictures below I engraved […]

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Hand Engraved Bulova Watch

Hand Engraved Bulova Watch

  Hand Engraved Bulova Watch On this rectangular shaped watch I decided to use a double running leaf design around the watch face. Each leaf is deeply hand engraved with great care and then shaded to add realism to the leaves. It is a simple but I think very elegant look for this nice Bulova […]

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hand engraved watch

Engraved Watch

  Hand Engraved Watch – Stellar Corpse style! The skull in the design on this watch was patterned after the logo in my son’s rock band. This is a 316 Stainless Steel watch case with running leaf design hand engraved around the top and then deep relief scroll work on each side of the skull. […]

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Hand Engraved Watch

Hand Engraved Watch

Hand Engraved Stainless Steel Watch. This hand engraved watch features a running leaf design around the dial and some deep relief english scroll engraving on the sides. Although this is not an expensive watch, the hand engraving certainly gives it a unique and elegant look.  

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