As Smith made more components, his knowledge grew. He says
link he remade the watch four or five times over the
link five-year period, as the components he'd made first no longer seemed as refined as those he'd crafted later. Each part of the movement was drawn on a piece of sheet steel, hand-cut, filed, and polished. the three-part case began as a single
link bar of gold, hammered, soldered, and formed into the 18-karat gold case that measures 66.5mm diameter by 21.5mm thick.