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Making a dial using reverse painting on glass, Verre Èglomisé
Making a dial using reverse painting on glass, Verre Èglomisé
Angular Momentum is specialised in using unusual artistique techniques to create unique watches. One of these decoration techniques is Verre Èglomisé or Reverse Painting on Glass as it is known in English.
Martin Pauli of Angular Momentum in Bern has provided me with this series of pictures of the making of a verre èglomisé dial. The painting is done on a sapphire glass using enamel paint that is baked after each step. The trick being, of course, that in contrast to normal painting where the smallest details can be placed in the last steps on the top, the small details and foreground must be placed first when painting in reverse. The sappire base has the advantage that it is possible to scratch away parts that are not needed without scratching the base material. First applied with very fine brushes the enamel is then reworked using needles and wooden sticks to get the desired image. After hardening it can be reworked again by removing material with needles or fine blades before the next painting step. When the painting is done the image is fused in a high temperature oven.
Looking at this series of pictures I am amazed that it is possible to visualize what needs to be done at each step, always keeping the complete design in view.
I hope you will enjoy this introduction to this work as much as I have.
Don
Angular Momentum is specialised in using unusual artistique techniques to create unique watches. One of these decoration techniques is Verre Èglomisé or Reverse Painting on Glass as it is known in English.
Martin Pauli of Angular Momentum in Bern has provided me with this series of pictures of the making of a verre èglomisé dial. The painting is done on a sapphire glass using enamel paint that is baked after each step. The trick being, of course, that in contrast to normal painting where the smallest details can be placed in the last steps on the top, the small details and foreground must be placed first when painting in reverse. The sappire base has the advantage that it is possible to scratch away parts that are not needed without scratching the base material. First applied with very fine brushes the enamel is then reworked using needles and wooden sticks to get the desired image. After hardening it can be reworked again by removing material with needles or fine blades before the next painting step. When the painting is done the image is fused in a high temperature oven.
Looking at this series of pictures I am amazed that it is possible to visualize what needs to be done at each step, always keeping the complete design in view.
I hope you will enjoy this introduction to this work as much as I have.
Don
Amazing work! Thanks.
I've founded it very interesting, thanks for sharing. .
AMAZING!
Vte 
Simply wonderful
Astonished !
wouaaaouou;
I didn't think that so skilled people were posting here !
I allready knew your work on watches, but here. ... welll, I have no word.
Bravo.
Deniz
Unbelievable!
Thanks for posting this -- it is amazing to see the painted image slowly taking shape. My immediate thought was to start saving up to get a painted dial for a PSM unique piece...
Best,
Gary G
Very interesting! Thanks Don...
I presume everything is painted from the underside of the dial Meaning that we are looking through the glass to get to the image, and not looking at the image on top of glass. I suppose this was meant to be presumed when the title says "reverse painting."
Yes, it would make sense that it is painted from behind the glass, since this would require the small details to be painted first, since otherwise you'd have to etch off the existing paint to apply the small details so they would be seen. Thus, the top-most layer would need to be painted first, hence a reverse painting method would be required.
A very interesting dial and another art of dial-making, thanks for sharing Don!
Yes, it would make sense that it is painted from behind the glass, since this would require the small details to be painted first, since otherwise you'd have to etch off the existing paint to apply the small details so they would be seen. Thus, the top-most layer would need to be painted first, hence a reverse painting method would be required.
A very interesting dial and another art of dial-making, thanks for sharing Don!
wow wow. this is amazing work
i LOVE these kind of Art Work. !!
it looks so 3D. GREAT JOB.. BRAVO ;0))
Tony
Amazing technique!
Hi Don,
Thanks for shedding light on this lovely painting technique. The artist really shows extreme skill and dexterity. I love that you chose to showcase a series of "time lapse" photos, so we could easily see how the painted dial came together. Stunning craftsmanship on display!
Cheers,
Daos
Thanks for shedding light on this lovely painting technique. The artist really shows extreme skill and dexterity. I love that you chose to showcase a series of "time lapse" photos, so we could easily see how the painted dial came together. Stunning craftsmanship on display!
Cheers,
Daos