This project concept is the creation of a photo-realistic pocket watch with an advance usage of gradient-mesh on Adobe Illustrator. The casing of the watch was created entirely of gradient mesh where I employ the strategy of meticulous eye dropping from the original photo into this one. Just to get a near-photo realistic representation each bit of the metal surrounding required a gradient-mesh of 25x25-50x50 size. Because the face of the original work was near perfect I started with circular shapes and text, while the means of editing it to photo-realism was the adding of a small pattern of lighter highlights and multiple gradient-meshes of shadow and darkening for the face of the watch. The only part of the project I feel could be improved is the fact that when I created the casing I was forced to do it bits at a time(since in Illustrator a gradient-mesh cannot be created from a compound path) and these bits have obvious borders that makes the metal look less smooth.