Grey Roger LCD watch for Space Pirates!

Design submitted by Firdaus from Malaysia.

Firdaus says: Once upon a time, in the Zeta Reticuli star system, a battle between galactic pirates erupted. The era of pirates conflict was known as Great Age of Space Pirates. The *space* pirates used to identify themselves with pirate flags called Grey Roger, inspired by very first pirate flag own by a legendary *space* pirate named Grey D Roger. The flag symbolize a Grey skull crossed with serpent weapons.

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Swirl watch uses vertical gauge for analogue time.

Design submitted by Peter from the UK.

Peter says: I was trying to come up with a simple but unusual time display using a bar graph like layout.

It would have been very easy and maybe a little predictable to use LEDs or LCD blocks to do this when I had a little Eureka moment and realised that it could be very easy to achieve with a standard analogue movement.

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