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Needs more globe:



Of course, what I really want is some kind of miniaturised reimagining of one of these:


Because if you can't land a spacecraft with your watch, why are you wearing it?

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I kinda want one of these, but I really doubt I'll ever be able to justify it in my lifetime:



Actually, I want that with a Spring Drive movement for the hell of it. But, the minimalist design despite being a friggin' slide rule chrono is what I want.

I've actually got an Orient slide rule watch (no chrono) that's... inspired... by that watch, but no chrono, and I need to repair the dial (broke off).

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Too much bling for my taste. It doesn't get better than this imo, well apart from the price maybe:

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You seem to be the type that can't take constructive criticism.

mr_a500 wrote:You seem to be the type that can't take constructive criticism.

Too far stretch I think. M'ers post can be read in the same kind (or offensive) way your "main problem..." sentence can. Everybody calm down it's just watches not keyboards...

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I was in the middle of posting this: "I see. Perhaps "main problem" was poorly chosen and I should have said "a minor problem". I did already compliment the renders." ... when I saw your annoying post. Well, fuck you then.

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That said, a minimalistic design can be made with various unique complications.

Granted, the watch I posted was a generic off-the-shelf-let's-build-something-around-a-Valjoux-movement watch, but still...

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M'er Forever wrote:... I started this thread to display my ideas about complex watches ....

Well you failed to say so then. Your proposal:

M'er Forever wrote:As a hobby several years ago, I taught myself 3-D solid modeling and photorealistic rendering, mostly to indulge my interest in complicated chronograph watches. Here's an example of a design I did a while back:
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Anybody else out there share an interest in this type of watch? I have many more examples, some of which I'll post if there's interest in this subject

If you just wanted to show off your rendering skills go ahead, do an M'er show. But I thought two times before posting the speedmaster and wouldn't have bothered if I had the impression this thread is just your vitrine.

M'er Forever wrote:...No, it's irrelevant criticism that I can't take. You know, like suggesting my designs should have "more globe" in them. I started this thread to display my ideas about complex watches. If you don't like complex watches, this is not the thread for you....

Then you go all out about complications and such like you have to teach little children basic mechanical watch abc. You are aware that the globe in the Greubel Forsey GMT is a complication? website:

Offering a three-dimensional temporal representation, the rotating globe offers at a glance a highly original view of time all over the world and a new way of perceiving different time zones.
The terrestrial globe makes one complete rotation every 24 hours anticlockwise – the Earth’s natural rotational direction viewed from North pole – and the position of the continents can be easily cross-referenced with the time on the equatorial chapter ring, which is marked with the 24 time zones and day/night indication.
The night-time hemisphere – 18:00 to 6:00 – is indicated by a blackened half of the ring around the globe, while the daytime hemisphere – 6:00 to 18:00 – is indicated by a whitened portion. The latter is superbly enhanced by a lateral window cleverly integrated into the caseband that lets in light to symbolise daytime....

I tell you what I do like in watches.
For me a chronograph represents a technical instrument. It is not some fancy feature to add to make a watch look expensive. It has a reason, the face should represent that. Polished or mirroring faces are there for show, they impair legibility. I dislike red, green, yellow or other powerful colours on the faces, black is best for chronographs, white is okay for simple and elegant ones, blue looks $39.99 most of the time. Latin numerals look cheap to my eye, they pretend significance. Like latin numerals for the build year on houses. They just fit if the surrounding is elegant, which is hard to get on a chronograph -imo. If there's no place for numerals on the face any indicator of the top will do, a 3 hour numeral is more than sufficiant. I think you can guess my opinion on crowns with cabochon. I generally dislike gold, red gold in particular. The above pictured Breitlings (original?) - if someone happens to raffle one and I win, I'ld sell it and get some russian steel instead. So much for my taste.

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I just want a nice looking mechanical watch that fits my tiny-tiny wrists.

Some general tips would be to:
-Use anisotropic shaders for the brushed areas
-Make the chrome less perfect, that looks like a surreal mirror.
-Adjust the focal length, several of those renders appear to be completely orthographic.

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There are free options such as Blender. There are several free standing ray tracing engines which could also be used. None of them will accept your models straight from AutoCad though. The issue is that you are unfortunately attempting to create "photo realistic renders" with software incapable of doing it. AutoCad does solid modelling, which isn't meant to do these things and even if exported to a decent render engine won't generate very good results.

No, I have not used AutoCAD much. I mostly use ProE and Catia for solid modelling, Alias for surface modelling and Blender for polygon and mesh-modelling in my work as an industrial designer. Not their separate uses. I am just trying to encourage you to either switch tools and realize that those are quite far from photo realistic if you intend to progress with this.