How to make a Jurassic Park Watch Buy a watch, put a sticker on it. Actually, the point of making this "watch" is now somewhat moot, since I finally found a real one on eBay.  What I did is bought a digital wrist watch from K-Mart for $9.00, olive drab on tan and stuck a 3/4 inch sticker on it. It looks okay plus I saved the $7.00 shipping and handling :-) 
Basically, the standard issue. JP watches are still floating around out there, but they are becoming extremely rare.
After that come all the "Burger King" watches and some of the other re-issues, some of which are actually pretty nice. (There almost virtually ARE NO Jurassic Park watches available anymore. Most of them are JP "The Lost World" from CPW (Classy Perfume and Watches) in Miami (awesome company, watches arrived in "working" with new batteries and even set to the correct time), or are usually "JP The Ride" or Burger King watches, which is fine except usually the batteries have died which is expected for original issue from 1993. Some are factory sealed which means you couldn't replace the batteries even if you wanted to. To make your own, the truth is it's pretty hard to shrink a logo down to the size of a watch face. I had to sample the picture using the highest resolution possible, (to keep it from tiling) then cut the thing out by hand with an exacto knife under rather powerful magnification, reading glasses PLUS a magnifying glass. If you want to get really fancy, you -could- remove the lens, slide the sticker under the hands, and adhere it to the watch face. I tried this once already, it eventually worked, but it kept getting stuck around 5 O'clock, (which actually is okay cause it means happy hour lasts forever :-) -Jeff |
