Along with eating crabs, catching fish and watching training films.Those Coasties got it made. While they're buoy tending, they learn leather work.
It seems you have learned well. Great work.
Just a lot of practice doing it wrong and finally getting it right. The attached GF Clock I made about 20 years ago. It was one of the hardest things I made no plans just figuring things out as I was building. The clockworks were from Germany and so accurate they are +/- 10 seconds form the atomic clock.You need to get you some Netflix
More great work. Must be nice to have talent.