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I always wanted a watch made with wood. During a recent trip to East Timor as guest of the Salesian Community of Comoro (Dili) I have been inspired to make such watch and I used the beautiful and strong local Teak wood.
The video shows some of the phases of the making of this watch: the prototyping phase, design, machining of the hands (aluminium), machining of the bezels (wood) and final assembly.
For its elegance, this REX model is called "Quadrato Ufficiali" and it has been presented for the first time in public at the Don Bosco exibition 2010 on the 10th of December.
This watch model will be used as exercise for the students of the don Bosco techical schools in East Timor. This will be part of a voluntary teaching program that we will contribute to create to focus high school education on precision engineering and technology and capacity to be inventors.
You will be able to purchase the watches produced by the students in limited series and personalized to your taste. In this way you will contibute to support the education and the development of this young country.
This particular wood (genera of Lamiaceae, genus Tectona) is coming from the area of Fatumaca in central East Timor; called "Ai Teka" in the local language Tetum, is extremely strong and therefore allows to be machined in the very thin thickness and fine details that are typical of a watch case.
A young country that fought for its independece rights for 25 years during the Indonesian occupation after centuries of Portugese colonization, East Timor is located between Australia, Indonesia, New Guinea and Philippines.
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