Scottish Watches Podcast #705 : Art Attack – With The Dial Artist and Black Badger
Description
Welcome to the Scottish Watches Podcast Episode 705! Picture this: two of the watch industry’s most delightfully unfiltered creatives dropped into a podcast together.
On one side, James Thompson—better known as Black Badger—is fresh off a wild collaboration with MicroMilspec that began not with a watch, but with an entire sci-fi universe dreamed up around it.
On the other hand, Chris Alexander—the Dial Artist—is showcasing his latest Awake Sonmai piece, a shimmering lacquered dial that shifts like oil on water and conceals an iridescent snake motif beneath the light.
These are just two examples of their amazing work! What follows is an hour of plenty of behind-the-scenes confessions about experiments that failed as spectacularly as the successes. It’s a wild tour of the unpredictable art of making timepieces that blur the line between horology and pure imagination.
Click here to read along and see the photos in our show notes as you listen – http://www.scottishwatches.co.uk/2025/09/01/scottish-watches-podcast-705-art-attack-with-the-dial-artist-and-black-badger/
James is wearing the Micromilspec Black Badger – Project Sabotage.
MILGRAPH
HERCULES
James’s nuclear blast glasses.
Awake x The Dial Artist Son Mài – “Year of the Sssnake”
Failed dial.
Jurassic Watch
Earthen Ceramic
Ring check: Black Badger V4.
Aye Naw
Scottish Watches Podcast #677: The Dial Artist Reveals All – Collabs and Crazy Creations
Scottish Watches Podcast #621: Experimental and Explosive Materials with Black Badger and Arcanaut Watches
Holthinrichs x The Dial Artist LAB SERIES 1.24
Bausele Great Barrier Reef.
Split Watches
Split Watches piece unique.
Scottish Watches Podcast #683: Garnets, Goblins and Gobshites – Rikki and Rob Talk Arcanaut Watches
Experimental: ARC II — Garnet Goblin
Arcanaut Arc ii Experimental Collection Bonehead.
Experimental: ARC II — Phantom
Experimental: ARC II — Green Fairy<img alt="" src="http://www.scottishwatches.co.uk/
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