Student wins watch design contest

Kirsty Alman said it was a fantastic feeling to have won

A Surrey student has won a competition by an international watch company to design a diamond timepiece.

Kirsty Alman, 21, is in her third year of a BA in Metalwork and Jewellery at the University for the Creative Arts campus in Farnham.

She was urged to enter the Rotary contest by her manager at the jewellery shop where she works part-time.

Ms Alman, from Buckinghamshire, who was one of five national winners, also received a diamond watch worth £220.

Ms Alman, who works at Ernest Jones in Farnham to support her studies, said: "My manager told me about the competition advertised on the back of the Rotary magazine so I worked on a design and sent it in.

Ms Alman wants to build up her own jewellery design business

"I was really surprised to hear that I'd won, it was a fantastic feeling."

She plans to gradually build up her own jewellery design business, at the same time as completing a postgraduate primary teaching course.

The University for the Creative Arts caters for 6,500 students at campuses in Canterbury, Epsom, Farnham, Maidstone and Rochester.