Watch illustrations
I’m a watch fan and have a small collection, but I had never looked at watch typography all that closely. For a project I had to redraw some wall clock faces and doing this makes you really study an object and look at it with fresh eyes. I then started to look at wristwatches I liked and decided to redraw those as an exercise. Interestingly, typefaces that are used a lot on watches are: Eurostile, Copperplate, and Sackers Gothic. Interestingly – and maybe shockingly – there is also a lot of Arial and Times New Roman.
I have been interviewed by Il Giornale degli Orologi and Il Sole 24 Ore with regards to my work and also about my view on watch typography. My illustrations have been featured in a Hodinkee article and by Wristcheck. A recent project was for Swiss watch brand Ollech & Wajs.
The very latest project I have been involved in was for TAG Heuer.
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Clock faces.
The following are faces of small clocks that I discovered. I liked them because they are slightly quirky and as always I was interested in the typographic treatment of the numerals. I will add to this section when I come across some new interesting faces.
