Show me your custom piece. Let me know what projects you’ve ever thought about doing and what’s keeping you from pulling the trigger.

Here is my cherished, lovely custom wedding watch.

This is commissioned art from the best; Chris Alexander (aka TheDialArtist) from Scotland. The piece was inspired by the JLC minute repeater with the other Van Gogh enamel painting on the dial.

It will forever be my wedding day watch!

• Big date window function for my big day;

• Precious metal;

• In-house movement; (🤌🏻)

• Great heritage brand, but not too fancy for church;

• Blue lizard custom strap with purple leather inside and no stitching, made by ManMade Atelier.

I seriously recommend the Pandora’s Box of customized sentimental-moment-attachment pieces. They can be dangerously expensive, or not, but a beacon of good memories from that particular intended moment; My wedding day was the most memorable day of my life, and every time I take this watch for some wrist time, it brings me back not only amazing memories of the day, but also the entire hunt and customization process, each step and carefully thought-out detail. From the absurdity of options and decisions on what to actually go for, obviously you will need a great artist to make that happen, and when Chris said he would do it, I couldn’t be happier.

It was originally to be a Parmigiani Tonda in RG, but it was changed to this 1950 Eterna because of the chance to have the big date function, the respect and love I have for this brand knowing its history is in a way unmatched. ETA was founded in 1932 as a separation from Eterna (from 1856) to specialize in movement production. It was crucial because ETA became Switzerland’s largest movement supplier, enabling countless brands to assemble watches without in-house manufacturing, thus scaling production and reducing costs. It profoundly helped horology by preventing industry collapse, advancing innovations, and providing reliable, affordable movements that powered the revival of mechanical watchmaking post-quartz crisis, benefiting the entire Swiss ecosystem and horology as we know it.

This carries weight in my eyes, as much as other massive brands for horology. Eterna by giving up its movement making to create ETA was watchmaking finding its way to survive back in the day, so we can have it now! It’s amazing.

The custom strap matched my wedding color palette and wrapped everything up.

Now show me yours !