I expected something like that to happen but it honestly doesn't bother me and as you can see from the (Dark.) photos, the visible zip isn't terrible. The idea was to attach a cable to the zip and pull it through the groove I cut out to attach and remove the watch whenever I wanted and the two ends would attach together nicely, but the force of the rubber is enough to make a gap of about 20mm. I tried to make the part where the watch attaches a seamless as possible so I didn't make any cuts to the surface and applied the zip to the bottom where it would be sitting against my skin. I don't know how easy this is going to be to understand but I''ll try to explain. I first cut a small track for the zip to pass through without hitting the rubber and hand sewn one side on (With aid from pliers) I used zip ties to keep the watch bent to sew on the other side with a bent needle to get under. I eventually settled on using a zip from my wallet as I couldn't find a zip of the right size and this was only slightly longer (about an inch) and compromised by just tucking it under when it was on my wrist.

I used my old design to practice with attaching the watch together using clips and hooks and a million different things to fight against the force of the rubber trying to bend back flat. I decided I wouldn't paint it until I had it bent to prevent any cracking. I tried loads of methods including making cuts and such but nothing working. I learnt that it's impossible to heat rubber to such a dramatic curve and have it stay put. The paint was terrible and cracked after I bent it but I luckily still had enough rubber to start again and decided to use the old one as practice before I do anything to the new one because, honestly I rushed the last one. I tried cutting it down to the proper size but I wasn't happy with the design. Somehow my measurements went wrong somewhere along the way and it ended up way too big. I use the circumference of my wrist for the length. I used the face that I made as reference and scaled up the image on my computer with the face on the screen until a picture matched up to it to measure the widths of the various parts. Because of the nature of animation, the Omnitrix doesn't always look the same in every image so I stuck with the most common design.

I got all my measurements from picture online.

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