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Watchmaker Anicorn has teamed up with the most important space exploration outfit on the planet(s), NASA, to create a brand new watch that aims to celebrate the Perseverance Rover touching down in Jezero Crater on Mars. And the results? Ladies and gentleman, we bring you the most bizarre watch of 2020. Called the Mars Time, this striking hexagonal timepiece has been styled as a homage to the space traversing all-terrain vehicle, and the finished product is so out of the ordinary it looks like it could’ve been created in a bunker near Area 51. Either that or its a short stack of pieces of desiccated orange, spray-painted white within a hexagonal fruit bowl. It’s all in the eye of the alien beholder. The case Mind you, though, while the 42mm (12.5mm thick) satin-brushed 316L steel case is positively futuristic, its hexagonal shape is one that really fits within the extraterrestrial theme. It’s just strange enough to be out of this world. The lugs are relatively short, but articulate downwards for comfort, and likely mean it would wear no smaller or larger than the 42mm on the spec sheet suggests. The caseback features a blued steel frame that holds the sapphire…

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Watchmaker Anicorn has teamed up with the most important space exploration outfit on the planet(s), NASA, to create a brand new watch that aims to celebrate the Perseverance Rover touching down in Jezero Crater on Mars. And the results? Ladies and gentleman, we bring you the most bizarre watch of 2020. Called the Mars Time, this striking hexagonal timepiece has been styled as a homage to the space traversing all-terrain vehicle, and the finished product is so out of the ordinary it looks like it could’ve been created in a bunker near Area 51. Either that or its a short stack of pieces of desiccated orange, spray-painted white within a hexagonal fruit bowl. It’s all in the eye of the alien beholder. The case Mind you, though, while the 42mm (12.5mm thick) satin-brushed 316L steel case is positively futuristic, its hexagonal shape is one that really fits within the extraterrestrial theme. It’s just strange enough to be out of this world. The lugs are relatively short, but articulate downwards for comfort, and likely mean it would wear no smaller or larger than the 42mm on the spec sheet suggests. The caseback features a blued steel frame that holds the sapphire…

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“I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.” Hunter S. Thompson was good like that. Always generous when it came to doling out whacked-out life advice. In his writing, he offered heartfelt tips on many things, from hotel liaisons (“Don’t have sex in the lobby – it’s usually awkward”) to optimised forms of hedonism (“Have an objective to give your bender a theme. For instance, stalking and killing a wild pig with a bowie knife”). This type of off-kilter wisdom reflects Thompson’s libertarian values and drug-addled life. Until these hard-living ways dulled his creative fire, he channelled this material into Gonzo journalism – an energetic form of subjective reporting that involved the writer becoming a central participant in the story. Yet what truly supercharged Thompson’s writing was his electric style, a form of hyperbolic invective that influenced countless young journalists all over the planet. On the back of his Fear And Loathing books in particular, Thompson became a countercultural hero, right up until his suicide in 2005. But given the unorthodox nature of his daily existence – the firearms, the pranks involving frozen elk hearts, the oceans of Chivas Regal –…

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