How to go about getting a Watch made.

i would say it is absolutely possible but it is most likely going to be ridiculously expensive as it would be a one-off custom watch and not run on a production line and have the advantage of economies of scale.

having said that if you live near any reputable art+design school with an industrial design department that might be a good way to start.

 

Have you researched into how a digital watch functions?

If you arent going to just hack another digital watch, there is NO way you can do this.

There is the battery, the CPU, the quartz crystal and all the timing things inside the watch.

How would one go about creating this from scratch without using off the shelf parts, which I would imagine dont exist.

 

As others have said, that would end up being incredibly expensive. As with any electronic device, the development cost is very high... but the companies make their money back by selling thousands (or even millions) of the finished product.

Unless you're willing to shell out $200,000 (random guess on the amount) for a custom watch - I wouldn't expect much.

Maybe your best bet would be to come up with the design - through illustrations or 3D models - then try to shop that design to various watch manufacturers as something that they could mass produce?

 

The electronics are not the hard part really. Obviously all the things you mentioned (battery, CPU, crystal) can be bought off the shelf. The most difficult part is a custom LCD. Apparently they are available though, so if you've got some money to spend on this I think it may be possible.

It might be worth pointing out that you're going to need more than art and design. Especially if you use a custom LCD, you're going to need an electrical engineer to design the electronics.

 

Wow this is very random.