Because this pocket watch tattoo post is nothing if not a metaphor for my desire to transcend time by writing. Hey! We did get to metaphor! Which is a good place to leave our tour. That he or she is part of the neverending tapestry of time. The pocket watch timepiece tat connects the canvas to olden times – a bold statement that the customer comes from somewhere. Caution! Links at the site lead to spam.Ī pocket watch tattoo is easier to ink and it has built-in nostalgia. Click on image for link.Ī wristwatch tattoo on the wrist? Well, it certainly fits under a shirt cuff.īut the above ink – so close to happy hands – is as good as it gets, technically speaking. It’s damn difficult to ink and where the Hell do you put it? Courtesy. The problem with any wristwatch tattoo: the strap or the bracelet. There are tattoos of wristwatches, of course. But why a pocket watch? Why not a wristwatch? Courtesy. In that sense, the pocket watch tattoo freezes a moment of time precisely – as only a timepiece can. Given the memorial images near many pocket watch tattoos, I suspect that the hands are set at time of death.
The WYSIWYG ethos underlying pocket watch tattoos accounts for the fact that the majority aren’t set at “happy hands” (1:50 or 10:10).Ĭlients commission the displayed time according to a significant event. Within the Venn diagram containing all the people who get tattoos, there’s the world’s tiniest circle, occupied by customers who told the tattoo artist “I’m only interested in a metaphorical image.” Courtesy. Stay with me people! A pocket watch is still a perfect tattoo design for someone who wants to capture a moment of time. But I can take a moment of time with me as I go. It says “I acknowledge my journey through time. Click on image for link.Ī tattoo is a permanent mark on an impermanent human. tattoos pictures incorporate blood, or a raven with a skull, or timepiece. As you browse the following images, ask yourself a question: what is it about pocket watches that makes them so damn popular? I have a theory. This PNG image is filed under the tags: Tattoo, Arm, Art, Black And Gray. But I have nothing but admiration for the beauty of a perfectly inked pocket watch tattoo, and respect for both the artist and their pocket watch-adorned human canvas.
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