Delightful interview with prop-watchmaker Robbie Jones from Danny Milton and Hodinkee.

Watches are for human wrists, unless you’re talking to Robbie Jones. He is the brains and hands behind the cult Instagram account eloquently named Tiny Ass Props. Jones makes, as the name suggests, very tiny watches – watches not meant for the wrists of you or me, but rather for dolls (well, actually action figures).

There’s a collecting community out there for figurines that rivals even the watch world. Great detail is paid to the sculpting and creation of figures based on characters from pop culture, but Jones noticed a massive void in this community of small things. For all of the craftsmanship in the likenesses and wardrobes at one-sixth scale, nobody was making character-appropriate watches with any sort of detail. So a few years back, he set out to change that.

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