We were excited to see [Z0hn]’s project about 3D printing a custom watch from scratch — both because it was an exciting idea, and because the pictures looked great. While we still liked the project, we quickly realized it wasn’t really printing a watch so much as it was printing a case that holds an off-the-shelf movement. But it still looked great.
Many homebrew watches are cool and fine to wear to your next hackerspace board meeting. But this watch wouldn’t raise an eyebrow out among the normal public. Conventional watches use press-fit backs, tiny screws, or make the back screw into the housing. None of those are great for 3D printing, so this watch uses a bayonet connector, which is easy to create, robust, and reliable.
The watch looks easy to modify, so if you don’t like, for example, the unusual crown placement, you can change it. The movement is a Miyota 8N24 and, of course, the crystal is off-the-shelf, too.
While not exactly a printed watch, it was still pretty cool, and there are lessons to be learned here if you want to pull off the same feat. Or just go full on hacker. You could, too, try your hand with an open source movement.
The project link goes to https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/network/wifi/relay_configuration !
I tried to find the correct link but there’s so many 3d printed watches I gave up.
So you gave up because there’s so many options for you to 3D print a watch case? rich people problems
Here’s the correct link I think. https://www.instructables.com/Building-Your-Own-Custom-Watch-From-Scratch/
My google-fu is pretty lame, but this was the first hit:
https://www.instructables.com/Building-Your-Own-Custom-Watch-From-Scratch
Pefect
I guess as paste buffers go, it could have been worse!
Part of me wishes it was!
let me know whelet me know when he actually 3D prints his watch movement. he could use his resin printer…. you really have no excuse….. you could totally print all the little parts of seen watch movements printed that are just larger versions and pretty sure you could definitely shrink that down. I mean you could even use some form Labs printer and have it sent away if you really had to, but it is totally possible to redesign the movement even at that scale to be simpler and more 3D printable.