A one-off livery and seat treatment in partnership with BRAXX. Where editorial craft meets cinematic velocity.
BRAXX has spent the last decade building a reputation for restrained, editorial industrial design — work that lives at the intersection of luxury watchmaking and modern motorcycle culture. When we asked them to reimagine the X1 surface treatment, we gave them one rule: nothing decorative. Every choice had to earn its place.
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The collaboration produced a one-off livery in matte graphite over hand-painted phosphor lines, a saddle of grain-cut Italian leather hand-stitched to a carbon shell, and a re-machined bar end set in patinated brass. Eight units total, each numbered and registered to its first owner.
This was never about volume. It was about asking what happens when two design vocabularies meet at the seam of motion and silence. The answer is here — and it informs the production X1 in ways that aren’t obvious until you ride one.
How the partnership came together
BRAXX founder Jules Andersen first reached out after seeing the X1 prototype at a small workshop event in East LA. The conversation that followed lasted six months and ranged from foundry techniques to font choices for the dash.
We approached the brief the way a furniture studio approaches a one-off commission — drawings first, materials second, prototypes third. Every panel was prototyped in CNC foam before any production tooling was committed.
The leather seat is the only component that required compromise. Italian saddle leather is glorious to touch but unforgiving in the rain, so the collaboration unit ships with a tailored cover and a service plan for re-finishing every 24 months.