Phillip Tiongson

Pocket watches for five 50th birthdays

Custom pocket watches made for Joel Johnson, Peter Cho, Phoebe Lam, Jonathan Bobrow and Deborah Harrison

Pocket watches I made for five friends' 50th birthdays; Phoebe Lam's caseback sets the titles of her fifty most important research papers from the past fifty years on radial spokes around her monogram. For Peter Cho's 50th, I designed a type specimen of Peasy, the typeface he designed.

Phoebe Lam's caseback Key to the paper titles Design studies for the caseback Phoebe Lam's engraved caseback in its box, paper titles radiating from PJL The dial of Phoebe Lam's watch, a Hamilton with a 24-hour track The 21-jewel Hamilton movement, held open The movement seen at an angle on a leather pad Peter Cho's caseback: the Peasy alphabet engraved in rings around 50 Peter Cho's caseback, resting in purple cloth The dial of Peter Cho's watch, a Hamilton Railway Special The watch case, embossed with the same Peasy rings