WHERE HOROLOGY MEETS ART

MARCUS B. WILLIAMS

Marcus B. Williams has been drawing watches and movements for over six years now, but it was never his professional plan. He was working as a financial advisor at Merrill Lynch and drawing in his spare time when he came across a photograph of the caseback of a Richard Mille that instantly caught his eye. “I was fascinated by the gears and mechanics and found it really fun to draw. When it was finished my girlfriend at the time suggested I put it up for sale on eBay for $1,000. I never thought it would sell, and yet six days later a collector in Hong Kong bought it.”

Williams has been drawing as long as he can remember. “My parents are both artists, so it is a bit like where Tiger Woods’s parents gave him a golf club, I got paper and pencils.”

He likes to work with graphite pencils and inks to create strong, sharp contrasts, but also enjoys