Title
Watch Faces, Straps and Display
Description
Year 10 Modified Curriculum
Objectives
For the students to design a set of attractive watch faces using only 5 straight lines. The lines may be thick or thin and some of the spaces between them may be coloured. The bezel and strap will have to be designed in a complimentary way and finally a logo and display card made for the watches.
Equipment Required
Watch sheets, card, paper and colouring pens/pencils. Other stationery sundries and tools.
Richard Murray
Abbey Hill School Technology College
Plan
Introduce the subject by describing how popular some of the modern watches have become, indeed some are collectors items.
The usual way these watches are displayed is on a card with the makers logo on it, in large clear letters. The students have to colour the watches and straps, cut them out and mount them on a prepared card with a 'full colour' logo on it. The choice of the logo and the watch makers name is left to the student. They should not however use any manufacturers existing logo or name. They may use their initials or a buzz word or other.
The students should try their hand at splitting up the watch faces with five straight lines that run from one side to the other. It is as well to suggest that they do not use the centre of the watch face as a crossing point for all the lines, as you will get a lot of these and others bending their lines to suit some little plan of their own.
Once the faces are complete the students should work on the bezel and strap, using colours and patterns that complement the design of the face. There is nothing wrong with single coloured straps, they do not have to be highly patterned. Once finished the best six should be chosen and cut out.
The students should decide on and select a suitable piece of coloured sugar paper. The colour should be chosen to set off their watches to their best advantage. The paper should be cut to A4 size and the logo added. It may be possible to have a repeating pattern and this may be possible on the computer, printing in a light grey to give guide lines.
The watches should then be placed on the sugar paper (which may or may not be stuck onto card, depending on weather the display of work is to be 'propped up' or pinned to a wall) and shuffled around to try and find the best display. The student may decide to bend the watches into a ring shape as though the watch were on a wrist or any other arrangement they wish. The watches should then be stuck into place with Pritt Stik or other similar adhesive.
The completed work should be displayed in the workshop in a suitable area with a note explaining the brief and the students names on their work.
The work should be evaluated and no better question could be asked than "Which of these watches would you buy and wear?"
