An inventive photographer has built a vintage smartwatch that takes real photos using pieces from a broken camera.

Photographer Alireza Rostami put together his one-of-a-kind* invention using the parts of a discarded Seagull Twin-Lens Reflex camera. The 33-year-old calls the stylish device “Gadget Shutter” and says it can be operated manually or using a built-in* timer.

Having taken the camera apart, the photographer in Iran worked on designs that would allow him to reuse the shutter* mechanism.

By piecing back together this mechanism, Rostami was able to create a watch-shaped device, which he mounted to a leather strap.

Having built a watch-like design, the next step was to ensure the device could still take pictures.

In order to do so, Rostami loaded custom-cut* circular pieces of film into the back of the shutter mechanism.

The result is coin-sized images that, when flipped using Photoshop, depict the likes of the photographer’s furniture, home and garden.

Rostami said: “When the shutter was broken and I could not find more parts, I thought of reverse engineering* and looked at the shutter, as that’s the important piece. It thought I could still go out on the street and take pictures.”(SD-Agencies)