My homemade Monaco

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…well, kind of!

I found a broken wall clock at the back of our garage (a Newgate Quad purchased from Costco about 15 years ago) decided to give myself a bit of a craft project.

I designed the new face on my computer, had it printed on poster paper and used an adhesive spray to mount it.

The hands aren’t a great fit and I think I’ll look to replace them with something more appropriate…still, I’m pretty pleased with how it turned out considering the original clock was going to be chucked in the skip on our driveway!

 
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That looks great! You've got talent. 👍
Just replace the hands and you'll have all us Monaco fans lining up to buy one! 😁
 
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You could put a pair of those little cheap movements behind the sub-dials with only 1 hand on each to give it a little something 'extra'.
 
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Really nice work. If/when you replace the hands, perhaps make slightly raised indices out of metal so they can catch the light? I imagine it looks a little flat at the moment.
 
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Looks great, I am looking to buy a clock and do the same project. @RushDom Would it be possible to share the digital file you used for the print?
 
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It just occurred to me, that, given that chronograph sub-dials are pretty useless for a clock....

How about tweaking the face so that the sub-dials are something more relevant, and so are active? EG day of the week and temperature, or temperature and pressure etc etc.... I wonder how much small devices are for that sort of thing.....

<goes off down rabbit hole....>
 
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It just occurred to me, that, given that chronograph sub-dials are pretty useless for a clock....

How about tweaking the face so that the sub-dials are something more relevant, and so are active? EG day of the week and temperature, or temperature and pressure etc etc.... I wonder how much small devices are for that sort of thing.....

<goes off down rabbit hole....>
You could run an Arduino Nano with a servo.