I've made quite a number of watches myself.  Take a look at this address:

http://showcase.netins.net/web/patrickd/imagesby.html

I haven't made any with broken glass to speak of.  One pocket watch was made
with a single crack in it though.
Hands are usually pretty easy to me.  I usually construct them out of
primitives (cylinders, triangles, etc.)


"Corey Woodworth" <cdw### [at] mpinetnet> wrote in message
news:3cb0bd95@news.povray.org...
> I'm trying to make an old pocket watch. I'm not quite sure how I'm going
to
> do the hands. I could cheat and use a transparent image map on a disc, but
I
> suppose I should do a prism (ugh, I don't like making splines) I'd like to
> make the whole thing look older though. Some corrosion and maybe even
broken
> glass. Has anyone done broken glass before? The only way I could see doing
> it is to difference a webish looking shape with the glass. That'd be hard
to
> model though.
>
> Any critiques or ideas for further development are greatly appreciated!
>
> Corey
>
>
>

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