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Mr Jones Watches has dropped Far Out, a hand-printed quartz watch with orbital timekeeping.

Clearly inspired by the recent space race to Mars and the successful landing of the Perseverance rover, the London-based watch brand selected a design from print artist (and the company’s own print technician) Paul Wardski.

Wardski not only designed the Martian surface dial but also mixed the inks and printed each color before handing the components over for assembly.

“When I first saw the images from Mars taken by Perseverance rover I thought, wow, we are actually discovering a whole new alien planet,” he said. “We are receiving these real, detailed landscapes images that we could only imagine before. It’s pretty mind blowing that humans have managed to put a car sized robot on Mars, that’s able to send these beautiful digital landscape images back to us.”

Depictions of two of Mars’ moons take the place of conventional hands with the Deimos (the larger moon) indicating minutes while Phobos (the smaller moon) indicates the hours.

Far Out is limited to just 100 pieces and is available via Mr Jones Watches, priced $245 USD.New York-based photographer Mark Greenberg is currently selling a one of one NFT collectible called the PORTRAIT featuring his film snapshot of Andy Warhol. The photograph depicts the late pop artist standing before his iconic Electric Chairscreenprints. The image was captured in 1985 when Greenberg spent a day with Warhol at his Factory Studio in Manhattan during an assignment for the Associated Press.

“Greenberg found Warhol ‘quiet yet cooperative.’ Standing in the same room as the man deemed ‘The Pope of Pop,’ Greenberg was curious to understand how Warhol masterfully created his own legendary image,” as per a press statement. “On a whim, Greenberg thought it might be fun to shoot Warhol holding a sign that stated the obvious. To his delight, Warhol agreed.”

Greenberg was 28-years-old when worked as the NYC Assignment Editor for the Associated Press. He then went on to photograph the world often alongside his friend and fellow photographer, Peter Beard. In the years since, Greenberg became a two-time best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize-nominated photographer.

The PORTRAIT is currently being sold as an NFT on Rarible’s platform. The purchase includes the IPFS CID to the full-res file (234mb file, sized at 7,200 x 10,800 or 24x36in at 300dpi) which was scanned from the original Kodachrome 64 slide.