Pocket watch and roses on a forearm
Realism · Forearm · Black and grey · Photo
The three panels show the same forearm sleeve design from different angles. It includes a pocket watch with Roman numerals held in a hand, two shaded roses with a small script detail, and wrapping ribbons. The shading is smooth and tonal, with strong highlights and deep blacks, and the composition follows the curve of the arm.
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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction
Tomas wound the silver watch every Sunday after the church bell, though it had not told the true hour since the frost took the roses on the south wall. His grandmother said the watch kept the garden's time rather than the village's, and that a gardener who forgot to wind it would find his beds gone to seed by midsummer.
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The village laughed at him. The squire's steward offered twenty shillings for the case, and the miller's wife said a dead man's clock was bad luck in a house with children. Tomas only walked the wall each morning with the watch open in his palm, reading the Roman numerals while the bushes stood bare and grey as ash.
On the first warm night of May, a girl came up the lane carrying a sack of cuttings. He did not know her name, and she did not ask for his. She knelt at the foot of the wall, pressed the bruised stems into the earth, and said the watch wanted a rose to wind it, not a key. Tomas laughed, then stopped laughing, because the second hand had begun to move.
By morning the south wall was hung with red blooms, and the watch lay on the sill with its hands stopped at a quarter past six. Tomas never saw the girl again, but each June the roses opened early, and he kept winding the watch anyway, in case she came back for the time.
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