A while ago, a customer came to me with an unusual request. She had a an ladies gold antique wrist watch that she could not get repaired. She wanted to give the watch a second (unintentional pun alert) life as jewelry for her daughter. So, I put together a few designs for replacing the missing watch face with some gemstones from another piece she was planning on recycling, a sapphire and pearl pin. (Pictures of the old pieces are here.)
As an added bonus, I was able to salvage a few rubies from the watch’s internal workings to use as additional decoration on the faceplate. Those all were incorporated into the final design.
The customer was on vacation, so the project went on hold for a while, but once she returned, she agreed to go forward with the design. The resulting bracelet is below:
The bracelet will now be passed to another generation for years of enjoyment. Everything old is new again!
