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Published: 2008-06-13 13:25:10 +0000 UTC; Views: 2318; Favourites: 58; Downloads: 62
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Not quite my usual stuff - but something I started ages ago and couldn't figure out how to finish quite right. Mostly the problem was finding some way of mounting the watch face. You can't really see in the photo how it was done - but it looks really great.The skull surrounded by roses was once a different piece of jewelry. I wanted something a bit Goth and a bit steampunk. Any one of my goth friends would be happy with this I think.
The skull is set against a delicate vintage watch face that has a slight pink hue. The colour is very unusual. The numbers have a light bronze tone.
The main pendant hangs down from an old pocket watch gear.
This piece is full of meaning: the watch face and the large gear remind us that time is part of our lives. Two small hands - one straight and smaller crooked - dangle below, moving as you move. And then the skull, of course - death - surrounded though by roses, represent the delicate beauty of life.
This pendant is a perfect combination of Gothic jewelry and steampunk jewelry.
The chain is a plain, dark metal with double links.
I've got it posted on etsy now on [link]
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Comments: 23
I LOVE THIS and it reminds me of Death Watch by Ari Berk
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beautiful!!! i looked on the site, but i didnt see it....has this already been sold? i love it!
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sorry for the belated reply. Yes, that one sold but I probably have enough materials to do one more. I have one more little casting of the skull in sterling. Drop me an email if you would like:
zero.space
@gmail.
com
I do a very small selection of commissions and its always nice to tailor something for someone. You could choose the watch face for example.
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haha, no worries, i'm the one who bought it 
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So elegant~ I really love how it has meaning behind all of the little pieces...
Was the skull and roses something you made by hand? haha, just wondering'
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The skull and roses was actually part of some silver jewelry that i had. There were some really weird things around it which i sawed off and then filed down. so... not really ... but sorta? I've not got the cash for casting these days not with the high cost of silver.
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oh goodness once again, beautiful. i really really like how it all looks together--i think you did a great job choosing the pieces (and the skull and roses look super groovy) and it's awful purdy <3333
crapandireallylikethelittlehandsdanglingathebottom
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wow.. thank you
I like the hands.. because one is crooked. 
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wow made somethin really similar to this the other day!, used a watch face n watch hands n pieces n made myself a pendant
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Cool! i have a number of faces... I need to do something with them all. quite a few. Have you posted the photo of your pendant? Can you show me?
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cant get a pic seein as my camera is broked 
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I love the rustic elegance. It has a beautiful and dark side.
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Thank you
I was worried it might be a bit too dark .. but I like it
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thank you!
I really wasn't sure how it would work out... one of those unfinished for ages til just recently.
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ahh i see. seems worth the time and effort though, beautiful!
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thank you
you ever get those kind of projects... you have to wait to figure out what is just quite right to finish it up?
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yeah, its almost always that way with poetry.
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Oh tempting...
I have a skull collection this would make a nice addition to.
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now why did I suddenly imagine you were a Predator? hmm?
Petting shiny, buffed skulls that sit on your mantle. mwhahaha.
oh i have some odd stuff in my head.
somewhere I have another one that was a match to this one - I was thinking of working it on a different kind of face... maybe a dark face? similar idea now that I've figured out the backing. I like my "backs" to look as good as the fronts
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An interesting imagining. Yet all my skulls are artificial.
And there is always something to be said for the whole-istic approach. Or else you're left with nothing but pretty facades.
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