Photographing Watches.

[thegamekeeper]

Has anyone any good tips for photographing watches. This may sound like a very lame question but if you have tried you will realise how difficult it is to get good photos without getting reflections, flash illuminating parts of the watch, shadows and so on. I spent a long time a couple of years ago trying to photograph a pre moon speedy that a friend in Germany was interested in. In the end I used an opaque tupperware container with a whit cloth in the bottom illuminated from outside with 3 cheap table lamps from Ikea to give a diffuse light with no flash or shadows to form a kind of crude light box. The results were quite good but nothing compared to the photos on some of the watch specialists websites.
Looking at the posts in this watch section lots of people seem to used catalogue photos. I have noticed that Stovey has a good attempt at photographing watches "live" so perhaps he could tell his tecnique. Before you all laugh at my question try and photograph a watch yourself and show us the results, its not as easy as you think----or is it??