The project addressed a specific challenge: how to translate the precision of artisanal watchmaking into a virtual environment without losing its depth and richness. On watch dials, engraving, guilloché patterns, enamel layers and polished metals interact with light through extremely fine variations that resist conventional imaging.
The work focused on reconstructing these surfaces through relief modeling. Forms were developed at a micro scale, following the logic of engraving and layered construction. Each structure was built to reflect how patterns are cut, how enamel settles, and how metal reacts to polishing. The image does not describe the object; it is constructed from the same internal logic.
This process was informed by exchanges with artisans, whose gestures guided the modelling. Micro-geometry, engraving logic and material transitions were translated into a digital framework where every groove, edge and reflection had to hold. Each dial was approached as a singular object, where light reveals the depth of the surface rather than its outline.