Bowmore SmartWatch Blog: England Football Fan Watch

Ahead of England's big game against Wales, I wanted to say a bit about the watch I made for the Euros 2016.

I wanted to focus on the greats, the legends and heroes from our footballing past.

Not that the current bunch of lads aren't fabulous - it's just that they are so young (youngest average age at the tournament), and mostly unproven at this level

Here's a brief overview of the process I took to make the watch

First I made the basic watch face with white background and used the shape tool to add two red stripes (a simple St George's flag)

Then I decided on the players I wanted in my ultimate 11, and found the best images of them online, downloaded and started the editing process

Each picture had the background erased in an app called ERASER, a cool and easy to use app that would allow me to pop the new image on top of the Saint George cross watch face.

Each of these new images was then edited again in another app that transforms it into a sketch or line drawing. The app is called SKETCH DRAW and was very easy to use - I was quite surprised at the results

The new images were placed on the watchmaker app and given an opacity script so that they show one at time with tap on the centre of the screen, this switcher code I got from +Iain Fry - the king of switcher watches

Here it is - All done on mobile phone, no photo shop or special skills required
Born in England - Fan Watch

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And now the players

1. Gordon Banks

England's world cup winning goalkeeper in 1966 - that should be enough but he made one of the greatest saves in football history against the very best player of the 20th century - Pele. He was named the 2nd best goalkeeper of the 20th century by the International Federation of Football History & Statistics.

The best goalkeeper England ever had

2. Bobby Moore

Captain 1966 world cup winning team, 108 caps, and 90 of those as captain - a true icon of British Football

3. Stuart Pearce (physco)

For such a hard man he carries so much emotion - It's his passion that puts him in my list, and being part of the the 96 team too

4. Steven Gerrard

One of the greatest ever midfielders, Pele considered Gerrard to be the best footballer in the world. 34 awards and honours from the footballing world

5. Tony Adams

An outstanding defender who did marvels for Arsenal in his younger days, he made no secret about his addiction to alcohol and went through a long and arduous recovery only to come out the other side an even better footballer. The only England player to make tournament appearances in three separate decades

6. Tom Finney

A mainstay of the England in the 1950's Finney is considered one the top English footballers of the 20th century, an attacking midfielder with a very impressive international record. To quote Tommy Docherty "Messi is Tom Finney reborn"

7. David Beckham

Do I have to say any more ?

8.Paul Gascoigne

Gaza = Genius.

The Greatest footballer of his generation. Not one footballer who played with or against him has a bad word to say - It's all positive. He'll always be remembered for the tears he shed in 1990 and that goal against Scotland in 1996