Each of us probably has a clock in the kitchen, and not even one. And I am not an exception in this. But only those same, beloved and never failed wall clocks with a thermometer, a hygrometer and a barometer have already fallen so many times from the wall (I generally am silent about the broken outer glass) that they started to fail. First, the needle of the barometer was lost, then the air humidity indicator froze in one place, and then the thermometer began to lure. And only the clockwork was surprisingly serviceable, as if all the hardships were nothing to him. And if so, then one Saturday morning I decided to do hand-made at home, especially since the weather outside was the most suitable for this.
So, to make a domino watch, we need:
• the clockwork itself,
• a piece of plexiglass (I had an opaque, opaque),
• domino chips (I found at home a useless, incomplete set, in which some of the stones were simply lost),
• glue gun with a rod (I used just one),
• a clerical knife to gently cut off excess glue that came out when glued,
• drill / driver and drill for 8,
• double-sided tape and scissors for him,
• and a key or a head, in my case - at 11. That's all.
First remove the hands and separate the clockwork. Remove the battery from it. If there is an eye in it, then to hang the clock on the wall - consider that you are lucky. No - you have to attach it. I just glued the ear from the old watch onto a two-component adhesive and set aside to dry.
But on my own, in home conditions, cut out of hardboard circle, I did not. All the same, it will not work perfectly perfectly, so on the lathe, in a couple of minutes, and a chocolate bar (the turner, oddly enough, turned out to be a young lady), I was cut out a perfectly flat dial with a diameter of 300 mm.
And immediately noted the center, in which I drilled a single hole.
And in order not to suffer and not to mark out (as you can see, I just didn’t need any ruler, pencil, or marker), on a piece of paper I printed such a twelve-sided box (in scientific terms - a dodecagon),
and inside I glued it with double-sided tape.
We turn on our glue gun to warm up, squeeze out, quite abundantly, liquid glue on the back of the stones (I came across chips with a recessed “shirt”),
and glue it. One "number" is ready,
also do the rest.
Now peel off the paper and insert the mechanism.
And so that he never turns (you never know), we coat a thin strip of hot glue from the inside onto the mechanism in the lower part, under the battery part. Then we put the washer back on the protruding part and slightly tighten the nut.
We insert in the reverse order (hour, minute and second) hands, then the battery, set the correct time,
and hang on the wall. In my case, I didn’t even have to re-hook the hook on which they hung: from where I removed it, I hung it there.
That's all wisdom. As for me - it turned out to be quite interesting, and most importantly - an interior detail not devoid of functionality, made do it yourself and in a very short time.