Tom Brady’s Watch Collection Is Full of Wild Stories

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Back in April, Tom Brady told me about his watch collection. Yes, we were in the early stages of a global pandemic that forced most of the country into their homes, but it felt like a simpler time—one that still offered hope for a flattened curve, a first wave cresting. At the time, Brady stressed the importance of getting out for some sun. I should make a point of getting out to score “vitamin C, vitamin D, zinc,” he suggested. It didn’t seem impossible back then that we might all be together again soon—a little richer in vitamin D and zinc, maybe, and showing off our watches.

That obviously hasn’t transpired. But Brady’s 20-odd watch collection remains of interest. The legendary quarterback, now with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, acquires watches for occasions big and small. The big: After winning Super Bowl 51, Brady got a special-edition Big Pilot as a

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Rolls-Royce Wraith Kryptos Collection is a car with a secret

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Rolls-Royce has unveiled yet another special edition vehicle, this one being a version of the Wraith. It’s called the Wraith Kryptos Collection, and it’s a bit more intriguing than most special edition models.

That intrigue comes from the secrets it’s holding within. This car is a driving encrypted cipher. Rolls-Royce designers decided to incorporate a “labyrinth of complex ciphers” outside and inside the Wraith Kryptos.

“As a designer, I’ve always been fascinated by the notion that you can communicate messages that are understood by only an elite few, using symbols, pictograms, and ciphers,” Rolls-Royce Designer, Katrin Lehmann said. Finding the key becomes integral to appreciating the full meaning of an item that can otherwise be viewed simply as a work of art.”

A number of messages are encrypted throughout the vehicles, but you’ll need to be a decent cryptographer to get anywhere with it.

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This motorcycle reimagines a radical 100-year-old art-deco design

ev3v4hn 2 weeks ago

This article was originally published by Michael Lange on Clean Fleet Report, a publication that gives its readers the information they need to move to cars and trucks with best fuel economy, including electric cars, fuel cells, plug-in hybrids, hybrids and advanced diesel and gasoline engines.

The electric motorcycle has reignited an optimism in design the likes of which we haven’t seen in over a century. The very structure of the motorcycle we’ve come to know is largely rooted in its function, a fuel tank gravity feeding gasoline to an internal combustion engine. As is often the case, the evolution of technology is redrawing the boundaries of expression and those of us who love the motorcycle are enjoying our front row seat of the renaissance.

A blast from the past
A blast from the past

Nearly a century ago, a designer named Georges Roy set out to revolutionize two-wheeled transportation with a

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Top 9 Highest Selling Vehicles From The Vannoy Collection Auction

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These nine cars help show just how diverse this collection really was.

Eddie Vannoy amassed an incredible collection of vehicles that were auctioned off this week through Mecum, and it turns out being delayed by almost a month did nothing to slow down bidding. The amazing variety of cars had buyers acting like kids in a candy store with a total of 55 cars, trucks and SUVs being sold off (only four vehicles didn’t sell) for a total of almost $7.1 million – and that doesn’t even include the equally incredible automobilia that was up for grabs. The top nine highest-priced cars alone all exceeded their pre-auction estimates selling for a collective $1.7 million, and they were a shining example of how vastly diverse Vannoy’s collection was ranging from classics to modern vehicles, bone stock to custom restomods.

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