Decorative Watch Art

How I started to work with Watches

One day my wife and I were walking in the Tel-Aviv Jaffa Flea Market when someone approached us with a plastic bag. It weighed about 2 kilo and he was asking approximately $4 for the whole content. It was filled with watches. Watches with no time pieces just the frames. I felt sorry for the man and bought the bag.
After the man walked away my wife suggested I throw it in the garbage. I still don't why I didn't.
 
 
Decorative Watch Art
Decorative Watch Art
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
On the way home I thought about the watches and thought that a watch without its time piece is like a person without a soul, just a skeleton is left. I thought that I could make art that would be a cemetary, a tribute to all the people that died in the Holocaust. That evening slowly, patiently, I began to sew them to carton pieces. When I was done, I had the first "cemetery". I hung it on the wall and still had many watches and evenings left… I found there was a name for this art: Decorative Watch Art!
 
 
  • 1987-1989 The green backgrounds are sewn watches on Carton, with and without green plastic screening.
  • 1989-1990 I began to attach the watches to Carton, Glass and Wood using screws, glue and nails.
  • 1991-1995 I glued the watches to Green Carton
  • 1995-2002 I screwed the watches to gilded and not gilded wooden backgrounds
  • 2002-2007 I branched out and began to screw not only watches but electronic pieces to wooden screening.
  • Since 2007 I have begun to glue the watches using special materials, and all kinds of textures for the backgrounds.