Small workshop. Serious watches.
Viktor Watch
Designed, built, and hand-finished by one person in a small workshop. What began as a sketch became a watch that you can wear.
The Story
A brand that started in a guy's bedroom.
Viktor Watch started as a simple idea: make something real, slowly, carefully, and with enough conviction that it could stand on its own.
The workshop
Every piece starts here.
The fixtures, the dust, the failed parts, and the repeated sanding are not separate from the watch. They are the reason the final object has weight.
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Everything starts with CAD.
Every watch dial was once just a sketch, later turned into a model, and then exported into a laser-cutting software. The process of getting the right laser settings was excruciating, and was probably the thing that took me the longest to figure out. I'm not exaggerating when I say that I spent more than a year just trying to cut the dials correctly.
The physical work
Good objects carry work you no longer see.
Much of the process is repetitive. Some of it has to be redone entirely. Back then, I had no ventilation of any sort, and the stench you get from laser is one of the worst smells imaginable.
Workshop note
Centering the dial.
A hole needs to be cut in the middle of the dial for the movement's hands to fit through. The most interesting part of this process was making the jig that holds the dial in place.
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The most important invention: my sanding jig.
One of the biggest pains in the whole process was figuring out how to sand the dials. The 3D-printed jig I designed to hold the dial in place was a gamechanger.
The result
The process is the product.
Nothing is hidden away. The work that goes into every watch is its own part of it, and that story stays visible.