Watch Generator

Procedural wristwatches, smartwatches and pocket watches

Watch Generator builds photorealistic watches inside Blender, ready for a macro close-up. Pick one of 17 presets modeled on real watch families, from a slim dress watch and a ceramic-bezel diver to a pilot's Flieger, a panda chronograph, a GMT, a skeleton, a tourbillon, a resin digital, two smartwatches, a fitness band, a ladies' diamond watch, a rectangular dress watch, a luxury sport watch with an integrated bracelet, a Bauhaus watch and an open-face pocket watch with its chain. Then change anything: the watch rebuilds live as you drag.

Every part is modeled like the real thing. Cases have lugs, polished chamfers, brushed flats and a knurled or fluted crown; the sapphire crystal has a bevel, real thickness and reflections. Dials get sunburst, matte, lacquer, enamel or guilloché finishes, crisp printing, applied indices with lume, date and day windows, subdials and a moonphase. Hands come in ten styles with faceted roofs or framed lume, and show the time you set, the current time, or tick and sweep when you play the timeline.

Straps cover stitched leather with a tang buckle or deployant, NATO, rubber, sport bands and real link bracelets: Oyster, Jubilee, President and Milanese mesh, worn on the wrist or laid flat for product shots.

One click, a new watch

Surprise Me builds a new watch from any of the 17 styles; Variation keeps the style and changes metal, dial and strap. Everything rebuilds live.

One click, a new watch

17 watch styles

Diver, dress, pilot, field, chronograph, GMT, skeleton, tourbillon, digital, two smartwatches, ladies, fitness band, rectangular dress, luxury sport, Bauhaus and a pocket watch.

17 watch styles

Any strap or bracelet

Oyster, Jubilee, President and mesh bracelets with folding clasps, padded leather with a tang buckle or deployant, NATO and rubber.

Any strap or bracelet

Hands that run

Set any time, use the current time, or let the hands sweep or tick with the timeline, even as a time-lapse.

Hands that run

Modeled like the real thing

Polished chamfers, brushed flats, a ceramic dive bezel, applied lume indices, a date cyclops and a link bracelet, all from one preset.

Modeled like the real thing

Features

  • 17 presets: dress, diver, pilot, field, chronograph, GMT, skeleton, tourbillon, digital, square and round smartwatch, pocket watch, ladies, fitness band, rectangular dress, luxury sport and Bauhaus
  • Round, cushion, square, rectangle, tonneau and octagon cases with six lug styles
  • Ten bezels: dive, GMT two-tone, tachymeter, fluted, coin edge, gem set, octagon screws and more
  • Six dial finishes, ten marker styles, four track styles, chronograph, GMT, moonphase and tourbillon complications
  • Ten hand styles, four seconds hands, set time, current time and animated sweep or tick
  • Open dials and display backs show a modeled movement with bridges, jewels, blued screws and a rotor
  • Smartwatch screens with activity rings and LCD digits for the digital watch
  • Leather, NATO, rubber, sport band, Oyster, Jubilee, President and mesh straps, on the wrist or laid flat
  • Ten case metals including steel, golds, titanium, DLC, bronze and ceramic
  • Surprise Me and Variation buttons, preset gallery with pictures, live rebuild
  • PBR materials that also work in game engines; Cycles and EEVEE

Requires Blender 4.2 or newer. Tested on Blender 4.2, 4.5 and 5.2 LTS.

Install in under a minute (Blender 4.2+)

  1. In Blender open Edit › Preferences › Get Extensions.
  2. Open the arrow menu at the top right and choose Install from Disk.
  3. Pick the downloaded zip. Do not unzip it.

Questions

Which Blender versions are supported?

Blender 4.2 and newer. It is tested on Blender 4.2, 4.5 and 5.2 LTS.

Is the watch built at real size?

Yes. Cases are built in real millimeters (a 40 mm diver is 0.04 m wide), so it fits real scenes and wrists. Use a long lens and a short focus distance for close-ups.

Can I animate the hands?

Yes. In Hands & Time pick Sweep for a mechanical sweep or Tick for a quartz step, and play the timeline. The hands start from the time you set or from the current time.

Details

Version
1.1.0
Blender
4.2 or newer
Tested on
4.2, 4.5 and 5.2 LTS
Render engines
Cycles, EEVEE
Category
Modeling
Download
2.6 MB zip
License
GPL v3
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