In 2016 I received a lovely Mickey Mouse watch as a gift. As you can see in the first photo below, its face is silver, while Mickey himself is all gold, as are the numerals and marks. Only the lines on Mickey's gloves are black. With little contrast between the hands and the rest of the face design, it required a bit of scrutiny to decipher the time.
As a graphic artist, I envisioned adding some color to the watch hands (not Mickey's hands) and set about simulating this using Photoshop. My simulation is shown in the second photo below. This was taken to a jeweler in Hillsboro, Oregon. They quoted a price of $30-$40 to disassemble the watch, color the hands to match my simulation, and do reassembly.
The third photo below shows the end result of their work. They used permanent markers to color the hands which, being transparent ink, allows the metallic sheen of the hands to show through.
-- Stan Cleveland, McMinnville, Oregon
Back to CodeMunki HomeThe watch as it came from the factory. Hard to read.
A Photoshop mockup of the watch with painted hands.
The watch with hands colored by the jeweler.