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BMW kidney grille cash clip and key ring, $89 and $79 respectively
Renault F1 40th Anniversary teapot, $194
With just 40 pots produced you’ll have to be quick to land one; alternatively you could visit the Atelier Renault restaurant on Paris’ Champs-Elysees where the pretty pots are in use and take a big bag.
360FLY 4K camera, $599.95
The new 4K model from 360FLY features 10-metre water resistance, time-lapse, first-person point-of-view, and 64GB internal memory. Doing a 360 on a track day is suddenly a lot more attractive.
How to Illustrate and Design Concept Cars paperback, $47.99
With more than a decade of magazine illustration under his belt, Adrian Dewey knows a thing or two about getting a car from an idea and on to a page, and now you can too. Just don’t do another Edsel please.
Porsche Design Chronograph 911 Turbo S and GT2 RS, from $12,650
The Turbo S watch will be customised to match your car, and both will feature novel titanium and carbon construction, and a sophisticated ‘flyback’ chronograph movement designed and made in-house by Porsche Design. As with carmakers, the best watchmakers make their own engines.
The bad news is that you’ll need to buy the cars to get the watches, but more affordable and less exclusive timepieces will follow.
Breitling Avenger Hurricane, $11,200 (approximate)
And now Breitling is offering you plastic. It doesn’t call it plastic, of course: it refers to it as ‘Breitlight’, a proprietary material three times lighter than titanium and six times lighter than steel, as well as being scratch- and rust-proof, anti-magnetic, and hypo-allergenic.
The Avenger Hurricane is one of the first models to feature it. It has a huge 50mm case, military styling, and the most macho name in watches, but you won’t need Rambo’s arm to lift it.
Briston Clubmaster Diver, $610
As well as the cool ’60s ‘supercompressor’ case with its internal dive-time bezel turned by one of two crowns, you get a good-quality Seiko automatic movement and a choice of three case finishes, each with four dial colour options.
Our money would be headed to this plain brushed stainless-steel case with the super-soft, period-correct silicon dive strap, maybe in blue or grey.
