Awesome Gold

This shiny gold watch takes inspiration from the original G-SHOCK DW5000C. The GMB2100GD-9A has a full metal case made from stainless steel with a gleaming gold ion-plated finish. The watch offers world time capability, a stopwatch, countdown timer, alarms, and a calendar, and recharges automatically using solar power.

Here’s another sweet-looking piece of gear from Dango’s Ultem collection. This compact compass is perfect on a keychain or in your pants’ fifth pocket. It features a CNC-machined body fabricated from durable, heat-resistant plastic in translucent gold. The liquid-filled compass will last for years and help guide your way no matter where life takes you.

If you’ve ever handled gold leaf, you know how fragile the thin metal sheets are. The Slow Mo Guys used this to their advantage by placing gold leaf inside a jar, removing all the air, and then letting air back in to make it shatter into tiny particles. Naturally, they captured the explosive decompression with a high-speed camera at 80,000 fps.

Celebrating 40 years of G-SHOCK, the GMWB5000PG offers a fresh take on the classic G-SHOCK DW5000 watch. It has a stainless steel case with a recrystallized gold ion plating that looks like gold leaf. Like the original, it’s light on features, but it does have solar power and Bluetooth app connectivity. The full-metal watch is also available in recrystallized silver.

Timex time traveled back to the 1970s for inspiration when designing its Celestial watch. The 36mm stainless steel watch features a retro-fabulous style with a gold-on-blue night sky face with sparkly crystal stars and a stretchy expanding metal band. It comes in a flashy goldtone or a subdued blue model.

This jewelry artist shows how they made an articulated snake bracelet using metal from coins. They started by slicing the golden coins into a zig-zag pattern and then flattened them into a wire. After that, they bent the wires into the bracelet’s woven links, melted down and carved other scrap jewelry to form the head and tail of the snake.

Timex rewound their time machine more than 50 years to bring us a pair of 1972 reissue watches, including this bold model with a large 43x39mm goldtone body, a burgundy dial, wide gold markers, and a date window. It has a stainless steel case, a quick-release leather strap and is water resistant to 50 meters.

Geeki Tikis celebrates the return of Indiana Jones with a tiki mug based on the Golden Idol from Raiders of the Lost Ark. Swap a bag of sand for this mug, then fill it with up to 24 ounces of your favorite beverage. It stands approximately 7″ tall and features a shiny gold finish that you most certainly shoudn’t run through your dishwasher.

Random Hands pulled off one of the most dramatic transformations of an object that we’ve seen. They started off with a rusty old industrial drill bit, heated it up in a forge, and reworked it into a pointy Japanese kunai. It took a whole lot of work to get it into the right shape, then they polished and finished it with a 24K gold plating.

Metal is such a wondrous material because it can be melted down over and over to make new things. In this video from domicscpy7h, they show how they melted some gold charms into an ingot, cast it into a bar, then shaped and refined it into what is basically the world’s smallest functional kitchen knife.

This special edition TINI 2 celebrates 15 years of Nitecore. The keychain-friendly flashlight outputs up to 500 lumens for 15 minutes in turbo mode and features a gold-finished stainless steel body. It also has 15-, 65-, and 200-lumen modes with longer runtimes. Charges quickly via a USB-C connection. Just 1000 will be made.

Chiseled Design created what they call “The king of all screwdrivers.” This 18K gold-plated multitool packs 40 functions in one. Its magnetic body holds 27 different 1/4″ driver bits, a 9-in-1 spoke wrench, a file, inch and metric rulers, a bubble level, and more. It also can open packages with ease.

Despite the name, a 3″ long 10-penny steel nail costs about four cents. We’re certain that this handmade golden nail by W&M Levsha cost quite a bit more to create. With its surface engraved with intricate patterns, this is one nail that you definitely don’t want to strike with a hammer. Wait until you see its secret purpose.

Inspired by the bumpy lunar surface, this analog-digital watch is one of the boldest G-SHOCKs we’ve seen in a while. Its forged bezel, vapor-deposited dial, metal band ring, and buckle are all gold ion-plated, and its caseback has an engraved moon design. We only wish the rocket packaging was available in the U.S.

For thousands of years, gold has been one of the most valuable commodities on earth. In this video from Factory Monster, they take us inside the Korea Gold Exchange for a satisfying look at how nondescript bars of gold are melted down, flattened, cut, and stamped into pristine 999.9% pure gold ingots for resale.

Seletti’s Gold My Robot adds a bit of wonder to any room. Designers Selab + Alessandro Zambelli created this playful decorative accessory inspired by robot toys from the 1950s and 1960s. But instead of being made out of metal, this robot is made from porcelain with a gleaming golden finish. Measures 11.8″ tall.

Inspired by the myth of King Midas, Kurzgesagt takes on a hypothetical situation that none of us were worried about: what might happen to the planet and its occupants if all of a sudden everything turned into gold. Physics aside, it’s an entertaining thought experiment with all kinds of ridiculous consequences.

Referencing Robert Frost’s poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay” and Susan E. Hinton’s “The Outsiders,” Stellavie’s gold-on-black print reminds us to stay true to ourselves and to maintain quality in our lives. The 27.5″ x 20″ piece is silkscreened on Italian fine art paper with gold ink. Edition of 250 prints, each signed and numbered.

In Japanese art, there’s a process called Kintsugi, a mending method which uses a mix of resin and gold powder to repair objects, accentuating the repair, rather than hiding it. Paying tribute to this tradition, artist Victor Solomon renovated a South L.A. basketball court using a similar method to fill in cracks in the court.

This upscale lap desk upgrades your WFH space even if it’s on the couch. It’s inspired by fancy executive desks, with premium leather work surfaces with gold accents, and adjustable height legs. It can also be upgraded with modules like Bluetooth speakers, a USB reading light, and a power bank. There’s also a matching storage bay.

The main difference between all of those irons you carry around in your golf bag is the loft angle of its metal wedge. Stuff Made Here managed to engineer a single, mechanical golf club that could replace of a whole bag of irons. The club can also automatically adjust based on desired distance in the middle of the swing.

In this vintage 1959 newsreel from British Pathé, we go inside a UK factory where they transformed gold bars into incredibly thin sheets of gold leaf. According to the narrator, a single gold bar could cover 9000 square feet with the leaf it produced. We’ve got tendonitis just watching the guys doing the hand-hammering process.

Created by Tobias James and Derek Man of Marble, this darkly comic short film is a modern day take on the tale of King Midas. It tells the tale of two men who stumble across a magical washing machine that can turn anything into gold. But things go rapidly downhill as greed gets the better of them.