Design

This British designed limited edition Storm Trilogy watch has two levels. The top floor is a traditional three-handed clock bolted onto the bottom floor where two totally different one handed displays give you two other time zones. On the right features a simple single hand for hours so if it lies in the middle of the 8 and 9, it’s showing 8:30. To the bottom left is a more unique way of displaying the time due to the obscured viewing area. A single hand of different lengths and design point to the hours in two rows, the shorter hand points to the hours past 3 o’clock and the longer hand points to the hours past 9 o’clock — via Watchismo Times

The house [Nikos Smyrlis Architect] grows linearly in the north-south axis. It is a stone formation deposited by the torrent streams. Is a regular, solid resting on land that was converted from a stone volume after subtractions, sections and surface removals. The owner’s love for climbing and exploring affected the management of the volume as a monolithic element, using stone on all external surfaces and the patency / approach of the roof — via ArchDaily

The Techne Goshawk (a re-edition of their 2010 model) features a Miyota 8217 automatic movement. This is a bit more interesting from other Miyota movements that you may be more accustomed to, as it actually adds a 24 hour complication to the mix (this shows up on the dial at the 9 o’clock mark. — via Wrist Watch Review

Black Bridge is the nom de plume of Beijing-based Adrien Macera. Macera has been tinkering with motorcycles for as long as he can remember, but this Honda CB400 is his first commercial build. The bike was for a friend who owns a bunch of restaurants in Beijing, says Adrien. We normally ride on trackdays with a group of friends. But for this project, he asked if I could build a smaller-capacity cafe racer, for commuting around town — via Bike EXIF

This 1930s Mollie Taylor-designed Kilowatt House art deco property in Bath, Somerset was built between 1935 and 1938 on a former quarry site for the electrical engineer Anthony Greenhill and was described in the Pevsner Architectural Guide as Bath’s only Modern Movement house.

If you fancy it, the house is, unsurprisingly not cheap, selling for around £1,950,000 — via WowHaus

Individually numbered, the Ernst Benz by John Varvatos Limited Edition ChronoScope features contrast finishing with brushed and polished stainless steel. The watches adhere closely to Varvatos’ design aesthetic  of perfectly imperfect. The unique dials feature sepia luminous numerals complimented by a distinctive set of hands inspired by a mid-century gauge — via Watchuseek Watch Blog

The aviation-inspired Torgoen T30301 is part of the T30 family — via Wrist Watch Review

This is stunning — and while the price might be high — it’s perhaps not as high as you’d imagine for the 24-bedroom Dunecht House, Westhill, Aberdeenshire.

This is a stately home and then some. Sat within 1700 acres of designed landscape, Dunecht House was built in 1820, for William Forbes, whose family had owned the estate since the 15th century. The original square neo-Greek house was designed by John Smith, Aberdeen’s most prominent architect. In 1845, Dunecht was purchased by the 7th Earl of Balcarres. Two years later, it passed to Lord Lindsay, who remodelled the house using the architect that was working on Balmoral Castle for Queen Victoria.

Fancy it? Well, if the idea of a stately home appeals, £1,000,000 is the asking price. Not cheap, but it’s a lot of house for the money — via WowHaus

Cabot Watch Company (CWC) is a British company, located in London, and they’ve been producing watches for Great Britain’s military for over 30 years. Their 1970 Remake Chronograph Mechanical features a 29 jewel hand-wind Valjoux 7760. With the two sub-dials, you’ve got a 30 minute chrono register at 3 o’clock, and the running seconds at 9 o’clock. The 41mm stainless steel case (14mm thick) is polished, and holds the solid strap bars and acrylic crystal in place. Wrapping up the whole piece is a military-issue strap, which just absolutely fits well to the aesthetic of the watch — via Wrist Watch Review

To be honest, we might have skipped this place ordinarily. But when we heard that Cotchford Farm in Hartfield, East Sussex was the last home of Brian Jones, as well as the home of AA Milne, we suddenly got interested.

The house actually dates from the mid-16th century. AA Milne bought the house back in 1925 as a country retreat and this is the place where the author would write the stories of Christopher Robin and Winnie-the-Pooh. Galleons Lap, Poohsticks bridge and Pooh Corner are all based on locations in the nearby 500-acre wood, if you happen to be a fan.

Fancy it? As you might imagine, a house with this kind of heritage isn’t cheap — £2,000,000 to be precise — via WowHaus

The Triumph Scrambler must be one of the hardest bikes to customise. Along with Moto Guzzi’s current V7 and the Kawasaki W800, it’s one of the few production machines that have a retro-slash-custom feel right from the start. This hasn’t deterred the Triumph Tridays team though. The Rumbler accentuates the Scrambler’s classic good looks, and cranks the performance up a notch — via Bike EXIF

Breitling presents the 44mm Superocean Chronograph II with a new red rubber bezel. This new version is limited to 2,000 individually numbered pieces — via Perpetuelle

This classy, understated KZ1000 is the work of London’s Untitled Motorcycles, and it’s owned by Anthony van Someren of the UK web site the Bike Shed — via Bike EXIF

This exciting renovation and extension [Smart Design Studio] of a turn-of-the-century terrace house in Sydney’s Potts Point focuses on a grand and gracefully spiralling stair that forms the pivotal junction of the old and new parts of the house. The staircase, spanning the width of the building, features delicate fan-like steel treads cantilevered from the central steel post and winding their way past six split levels, offset between the old and new sides of the house. The stair was conceived as the element that grafts the contemporary and new minimal structure to the refined, trimmed and formal older portion of the dwelling — via ArchDaily

The Graf Zeppelin LZ129 Hindenburg is a thoroughly modern watch. It starts off with a 40mm stainless steel case that’s only 11mm thick — via Wrist Watch Review

The Baeza Township Project [Viar Estudio Arquitectura] has been read as a unit in a duration, as a constant change process where the new design has been thought as an additional stratum, as the last sediment layer in time the building has created. The thought about the temporal process of architecture is fundamental — via ArchDaily

Incorporating the few remaining freestanding walls of a former mill building, the project [Rural Design] engages with the buildings past, without replication of its traditional forms.

The starting point for the Mill project was the few freestanding walls that remained on the site. The existing walls created a series of courtyards, some of which has begun to be re-inhabited by nature — via ArchDaily