Pocket Watch - Lid Opens, Gear Train Linked to the Real Time | VRChat

A pocket watch with a hunter case (a lid over the dial). Press the crown and the lid pops open; through the window in the center of the dial you can see the movement at work.

The balance wheel swings, the hairspring breathes, and the escape wheel ticks 5 times a second. The gears turn at real tooth ratios: the fourth wheel drives the small seconds hand and the center wheel drives the minute hand. The time comes from VRChat, so it shows the current time with no OSC or external app.

Switch between hanging it at your waist and holding it in your right hand (the chain has its own shape for each). For Alice, Mad Hatter, magician and steampunk looks.

Features

• Press the crown to open the lid: the crown sinks, the lid opens to 170 degrees and bounces back to 165. Press again to close
• A movement you can watch: the balance swings (2.5 times a second), the hairspring breathes, the escape wheel ticks (5 times a second) and the pallet fork rocks
• Gears linked to the current time: the fourth wheel is the small seconds (one turn per minute) and the center wheel is the minute hand (one turn per hour), with real tooth ratios (center wheel 60, third pinion 8, third wheel 64, fourth pinion 8 ...)
• No OSC or external app: wear it and it shows the current time
• Display back: ruby jewels in gold chatons, blued slotted screws, arc-shaped bridges with shining chamfers, scroll engraving on the balance cock, Geneva stripes
• 2 carry styles: hanging at the waist / held in the right hand (the chain changes shape; no PhysBones)
• Stop Hands for photos: the hands and gears stop at 10:08:36
• Engraving inside the lid: engrave your own text with the included text tool ("K.K. 2026" at first)
• Details: guilloche lid, coin-edge bezel, knurled crown with 36 ridges, line-built Roman numerals (with IIII), cable chain, swivel and T-bar
• 2 colors: brass x white dial (blued hands, golden gears) / silver x black dial (silver-white hands, gold gears). Both included
• Lightweight: about 9,700 triangles (PC Excellent), 3 materials, 0 particles, 0 PhysBones
• Modular Avatar ready: put it under your avatar and fit the waist and right-hand anchors

How the gears keep time

• The parts are laid out in the same order as a mechanical watch: barrel, center wheel (minute hand), third wheel, fourth wheel (small seconds), escape wheel, pallet fork, balance.
• The gears turn at real tooth ratios, so the teeth stay meshed as they move. The center wheel turns once an hour, the fourth wheel once a minute.
• The balance swings 2.5 times a second (18,000 vibrations per hour). Each time it passes the center, the escape wheel moves half a tooth (12 degrees) and the small seconds hand ticks 1/5 of a second.
• Everything moves in shaders, with no particles or bones.

Menu (English menu prefab)

• Pocket Watch > Show: pocket watch on/off
• Pocket Watch > Carry Style: Waist / Right Hand (Waist at first; the chain changes shape too)
• Pocket Watch > Open Lid: press to open the lid, press again to close it
• Pocket Watch > Stop Hands: stops the hands and gears at 10:08:36 (for photos)

What's included

• Prefabs x 2 colors
• FBX, textures, materials, custom shaders (watch, glass), animations
• Text tool for the Unity editor (text tool v2)
• English-menu prefabs (_EN) next to the Japanese-menu prefabs. Use one or the other on an avatar, not both.
• Instruction manual and Terms of Use in English and Japanese

Specs

• Triangles: about 9,700 (case, movement, chain, lid and glass together). PC Excellent overall in the test
• Material slots: 3 (body, lid, glass)
• Synced parameters: 11 bits (Show, Carry Style, Lid, Stop Hands)
• 0 particles, 0 PhysBones, no bones
• Size: 52 mm across, 11.5 mm thick (close to a real watch, at scale 1.0)

Requirements

• Unity 2022.3.22f1 (an avatar project made with VRChat Creator Companion)
• VRChat SDK (Avatars) 3.10 or later
• Modular Avatar 1.18 or later
• lilToon 2.3 or later

Please note

• PC only. Not supported on Quest / Android.
• The time is the viewer's PC time (each viewer sees their own local time).
• In the Unity editor the hands stay at 10:08:36 and only the gears move. Inside VRChat they show the current time.
• If a viewer's Safety settings hide shaders, they see the watch with the lid closed and the hands stopped at 10:08:36.
• There are no PhysBones, so the chain does not swing (it has two fixed shapes: waist and right hand).
• The right-hand shape assumes you hold it palm up, with the chain hanging down from the little-finger side. No hand pose is included.
• No real brand or movement is copied (the gear train layout, bridges, hands and guilloche pattern are all original).
• The metal reflections use a lilToon image (matcap_metal_realistic). If the metal looks gray, check that lilToon is installed.

Terms of use

• You may upload it to VRChat and similar services on your own avatars, edit it, and use it in streams, videos and photos (commercial or not).
• You may not redistribute, resell or share the data (edited or not), or use it to train AI.
• Full text: Terms_of_Use.txt in the download.

Also on BOOTH

This item is also sold on BOOTH, the Japanese marketplace: https://karakuri-komono.booth.pm/items/8940965

How this was made (AI-Assisted)

The 3D shapes, materials, shaders and texts of this item were made with scripts written with AI assistance. A person checked how it looks and moves in Unity before release.