Building a Watch From Scratch in a Brooklyn BasementGiles Clement tends to go a little overboard with his hobbies. During the pandemic, he taught himself to repair old watches and then decided to try building one himself. Taylor Scott Mason made a short documentary about Clement and his effort to build a watch from scratch in his basement:Aside from the movement, Clement builds every component of his watches completely from scratch. He even constructed two of his milling machines and designed the typeface for the numbers on the watch face. My shop is built around two 3 axis CNC machines which I built from scrap steel, surplus parts and a bunch of cussin.