Design

41mm wide is perfect on the wrist and the shape of the case is lovely. A slightly more delicate, tasteful version of the BR01 case and dial, but of course not square. The amazing thing about the dials is just how legible they are – and attractive — via A Blog to Read

According to the Der Spiegel site, BMW’s Mini offshoot is moving into the scooter market. Specfically the electric scooter market – and with a retro twist — via Retro To Go

Christopher Ward of UK will be launching their C60 Trident GMT line of watches in October. This will their first GMT watch. It is also known as a dual time watch. These new watches are very exciting. It is a true GMT movement, where the 12 hour hand can be set independently from the 24 hour hand. This is similar to the system used in the Rolex GMT Master II and the Omega Seamaster GMT — via Horology Crazy

Hello lovely people! New toy designs! What do you think? We are working hard to make our toy designs available for you to own. Have a nice day 🙂 — via Yum Yum

This machine took 10th place at the 2005 World Championship of Bike Building, and it now sits in the garage of Robert M Malachowski, Jr. The Boardtrack caught the eye of Malachowski after he saw it in shows, magazines and Art of the Chopper book, and he eventually managed to buy it at an auction in Los Angeles — via Bike EXIF

This wonderful woodwork by Kyle Buckner is hard to categorise – contemporary, sure, and custom crafted … but beyond that, these elegantly sculpted tables and chairs seem to span a wide stylistic gap without feeling as if they were created by various designers — via Dornob

In too deep, or still safe and shallow? Now your boots will tell you for sure — and down to an inch (or centimetre) of detail. Sometimes good design is as simple as adding something cosmetic that also has a twist of functionality … or might brighten a dark and rainy day for you or someone around you — via Dornob

Wempe has launched their Wempe Zeitmeister Aviator ranges of watches — via Horology Crazy

The Radio Room Clock with its coloured segments were one of the specialised clocks. The coloured segments, each measuring 3 minutes long indicates periods which radio silence observed. This is to facilitate listening to any distress calls on the International Distress Frequencies (for many years 500 kHz was the primary international distress frequency).

The red segments indicate the listening period for distress calls made with Morse code, while the green segments indicate the listening periods for voice calls on (usually) 2182 kHz (medium range maritime voice use). Other frequencies include 121.5 MHz for civil aviation and 243 MHz for military use. Current international frequency has been updated to 406 MHz (digital) — via Horology Crazy

The USGBC recently held a competition for the design of an affordable, single-family house with between 720 and 880 square feet that meets the requirements of LEED Platinum certification. Local chapters chose 49 designs and a national jury picked two professional finalists and two student finalists. These four designs will be built in the Broadmoor neighborhood of New Orleans by enviRenew — via Jetson Green

The dial of the Omega watch has been created in black or silver. It is decorated with a signature “Geneva Waves” pattern. The chronograph counters are framed by three applied rings. You will notice that the silver dial has blackened sub-dial rings, while the black dial has silver rings, creating a fine contrast. The counters feature a one-of-a-kind “beehive” surface that distinguishes the Speedmaster Broad Arrow Co-Axial from other members of the collection. The date window is found at 4:30. — via Infoniac

It’s a collaboration between Tony Scott of T3 Racing and Mark Wilsmore of the Ace Café, and it’s marketed with Stonebridge Motor Co. branding. Triumph’s familiar air-cooled parallel twin motor has been heavily reworked, with a 904 big bore kit, high-lift cams and revised throttle bodies. This boosts power by 35% and reportedly delivers 80bhp at the back wheel — via Bike EXIF

The Pontos Decentrique Phases de Lune watch demonstrates a one-of-a-kind time display. At 10 o’clock, you will notice an off-centre dial with a unique single hand keeping track of the minutes and the dragging hours displayed with help of a disk. At 4 o’clock, the main dial features two superposed disks displaying the phases of the moon and indicating day and night. Yet, the true zest of the dial is presented at 6 o’clock – the dial clearly displays the date in a metalized sapphire crystal window on a disk based on the patented return system conceived exclusively in-house — via Infoniac

The Piaget one-of-a-kind watch is proposed with an 18-carat white gold case, which measures 25.60 mm in diameter. On its side the model exposes musical instruments in black grand feu enamelling. The reverse side of the case features such images as a drum kit and a trumpet, joined by a portrait of a jazzman. The interior life of the new Polo Tourbillon Relatif watch is represented by the manufactory-made Piaget 608P mechanical hand-wound flying tourbillon movement. Suspended from the minute hand, the tourbillon carriage demonstrates 3 titanium bridges. It rotates once per minute on its own axis. With the center of rotation in the middle of the watch, the minute hand, in its turn, accomplishes one full revolution per hour — via Infoniac

The design of the watch has been inspired by speedometers. It is predominated by black and silver shades. The black dial is framed by circles that will make you think of racing tracks. The bezel demonstrates a finely graduated tachometer scale as a way to hint at the importance of precision in the fields of top- level automobile sports and fine watchmaking — via Infoniac

This traffic-stopping machine, called “Great Escape“, is a 1963 BMW R60/2 customized by Blitz Motorcycles of France. Hugo, Léo and Fred have restored this 594 cc (36 ci), shaft-driven Boxer twin, powdercoated the frame, fork and handlebar in matt black, and then used high-temperature black for the engine — via Bike EXIF

The Steve McQueen-inspired Tag Heuer Monaco has ruled the roost for years when it comes to Le Mans-related watches, but here’s another tasty and related timepiece that’s a fraction of the price – the C70 Aston Martin DBR1 watch by Christopher Ward — via Retro To Go