This masterful conversion of a non-functional early C20th Elgin pocketwatch casing into a fully functional LED-handed timepiece with vibrating alarm and light-responsive display is a thing of beauty — which one might expect from a project which took two years and cost $1,000 (not including the heirloom watch). Australian maker Paul Pounds (whose recent PhD thesis describes a four-motored flying robot) dedicates the project to master horologist Howard Pounds (1914–2005), who would no doubt have been justly proud of his grandson’s achievement.