Luxury watches crafted from paper – in pictures

Canadian artist Gabriel Lau fell in love with luxury watches while studying product design at university. Like most of us, he can’t afford them, so he drew his dream Rolex – purposefully skew-whiff, but completely accurate in dimension and design – and photographed it stuck on his wrist for Instagram. That was the start of his paper watch collection. He has now made Patek Phillipes, Cartier timepieces and Omega Seamasters out of cardboard. “I’m still most passionate about vintage Rolexes; there’s so much character in vintage watches,” he says. His main message is a simple one: “If you’ve got nothing to do, make stuff.”