Johnny ‘King Nerd’ Dowell (King Nerd is his instagram name) is an engraver, trained by James Purdey & Sons, and has worked on several watch projects. This includes work for brands like Jaeger-LeCoultre, Officine Panerai, Linde Werdelin, Bamford Watch Department and a couple of others www.copywatchalike.is.

However, the project we see today is his personal watch. A custom job on his trusty yellow dialed Omega Speedmaster Racing Schumacher. Below, an image of the Speedmaster Racing Schumacher yellow dial (pictured here with yellow leather strap).

Johnny decided to engrave his own Omega Speedmaster Schumacher. It took him a while to find the right theme, but in the end he settled for the famous beagle: Snoopy. Of course, there already have been two official Speedmaster Snoopy watches, but Johnny thought about making it a F1 Snoopy instead of an astronaut Snoopy. Snoopy in a F1 Ferrari.

The case back was completely filed down by hand, using different grades of file and a micrometer. The micrometer was used to measure thickness while slowly filing down the Speedmaster’s case back. The gold that has been inlaid was a painstaking process according to Johnny. The case back should be thick enough to have the 24 carat gold inside, and not pierce through the case back when doing the inlaying.