AS 1130 aesthetic modifications

Before and after (I clearly did not clean the parts before the after picture)

The idea behind the reshaping of the bridges was to break the very hard look made of straight lines and to follow the shape of the balance bridge. I feel this worked well on the long central bridge, but not on the escape wheel bridge that looks awkward, badly done and where I should have worked around the jewel.

Bridges reshaped

After reshaping the bridges, the next step was to give a frosted effect to the top of the bridges. Doing so on the smaller bridge was a bad idea, especially using the larger texturing wheel.

After that, I created the bevels and polished them.

Reshaped bridges with frosted top and beveled and polished edges

I am quite happy with the bevels and the polishing, which has improved since past projects. The frosting looked better in the metal than on picture, but I still have not found the right technique. The reshaping of the central bridge worked well, but that of the escape wheel bridge looks bad.

The polished bevels shining