Wire Cuff Bracelet Watch

Those of you who read and follow this blog, know a couple of weeks ago I took a cuff bracelet and made it into a watch using craft wire. I have been wearing that watch ever since, and I love the comfort, feel and style of it. I looked at buying more cuff bracelets, unfortunately the price would make the finished watch too expensive. So, I decided to find a way to make a cuff bracelet in a easy affordable kind of way. I love craft wire. It comes in a huge variety of colors, and is very pliable and easy to use. I also find it durable, and also comes in different gauges to fit different projects. I try to do a project each Wednesday, since I am learning to paint, that has overshadowed jewelry making. But I just had to try the cuff idea. So I used black and mauve craft wire to make the cuff bracelet. Then the mauve craft wire to attach the watch face. You can see the results. I love this, but do not care for the end of the cuff on one side. I need to figure out how to do that better. Since this is my first attempt, I am very pleased. This will be for sale in my Etsy store in the near future, at a very affordable price. I have 7 more watch faces to experiment with. What do you think of this style?

Not Happy With Beaded Watches Tried Cuffs Instead

I had mentioned in a previous post that I was making watches for the smaller wrist, as I have one. Well so far, I have not been happy with the results. Mind you they are very pretty, but I am not finding them to be reasonable to wear for everyday, or even casually at this time. I tried magnet clasps for ease of on and off, from two different suppliers. The results were the same, even though the magnets were very strong, the watches would just randomly fall off without any reasoning. Then I switched to regular clasps, which are an annoyance to put on and off. I was not happy with the look, the feel, or how to put them on and off. Then I remembered I had purchased this plain wire cuff, from where I wish I remembered, since I can not find anymore anywhere. Maybe it was Walmart, lol! Anyway I took a watch face, and with lime green craft wire, wire wrapped the watch face to the cuff. The trick really is to be sure the cuff is pretty much already at your wrist size because once it is wire there is only a little bit of play in size. I like the results a lot. Since I can not find any cuffs even similar to this, haven't checked Etsy yet for handmade ones but they might be too expensive, I have found a fairly simple tutorial to make my own cuff bracelet with craft wire. I can't wait to try it. There was not a video for this particular tutorial, but if you would like to give it a try, just click here. If anyone knows where I can find a cuff bracelet, similar to the one shown, please drop me a comment with a link. I also am thinking bangle bracelets, which are very affordable, and maybe memory wire would work nicely as well for watches. What do you think?