years and has created various watches for various well known working magicians . Yes , others have created smoke from watches but none have used this technology simply because it never existed prior to VAPR WATCH .
When you want to create smoke you can use two methods . One is a fan and the other is a pump . Putting a fan in to a watch was something Will had worked on previously but it did not produce the type of smoke he wanted as it was far too thin due to the way air travels via a fanning system . The other problem with the fan method is that you can ' t have the smoke push out to where you want it . The fan just makes the smoke flow out of where it comes from . With a pump the smoke is pushed OUT so it doesn ' t appear to come from anywhere near the watch . The size was the first obstacle because nobody in the world had created a pump small enough to fit inside a watch due to the structural limitation of a traditional pump . The smallest pump at the time was used for the advancement of medicine , even that was too big to fit into a watch . Starting from scratch Will spent the next year talking to scientists and experts around the world trying to get somebody to believe in his outside-of-box thinking to create the world ’ s smallest silent pump . After countless rejections he had faced , he finally found two Professors in Japan who were willing to join this project . Two years and seven months later after working full time with Will in the team , they made a break through and created the world ’ s smallest silent pump . There were times Will was close to closing the project down because of the cost and time involved but his belief in his creation and perseverance is what kept him going .
The next step was to create the watch itself . As Will said , what is the point of having a watch if you can ' t tell time . With VAPR watch you not only get a designer watch that produces smoke , but it also tells time . Again there was nothing out there small enough or affordable enough to make this work . Will travelled the world until he was connected to a manufacturer who believed in his vision and was willing to do cross industry collaboration . As it turned out that company was world renowned watchmaker SEIKO and they ended up help making the thinnest watch face possible to go on Vapr Watch .
Each stage of the watch was made by different companies which was important to Will to keep the secret safe from lay people . Had he put this out in a public Kickstarter programme I know watch collectors would have bought them up in no time . The design of the watch is that of a high end modern day collectors watch and looks incredibly sharp and smart . I ' ve worn this myself and fell in love with the overall design and shape . Anybody who knows about watches knows this is the trend .
After the pump was created there were still a lot of hurdles to overcome . They had to create a wrist band with an antenna built-in seamlessly for the remote . YES ! The watch is activated by a remote !! That is something that takes this to a new level all together . Again to produce a self-contained watch band with built-in antenna turned out to be more challenging than expected ; because nothing like that had been done before in a standard watch manufacturing procedure . The other thing was to create a way that the watch would work for both left and right handed magicians . A nice feature about this watch is that the smoke can shoot either towards the hand or to the back of the hand making it possible now to have the watch on
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