Yes, I admit, I'm into motorsports. Boys will be boys, I guess. I especially like the cars of the era when I was born – 1968. Back in those days Commendatore Enzo Ferrari refused to sell his company to Ford, which in effect led Ford to build their legendary GT40 race car, my all time favorite dream car.
Since i will probably never be able to afford on of those totally not-p.c. Gran Turismos, I decided to design a trilogy of watches to commemorate some of the most beautiful machines ever built, whose only purpose it is, to drive around in circles as fast as possible.
I am again very thankful for Günter Steinhart's efforts to actually produce and make available this little dream of mine! It wasn't really all that tough to convince him though, he's also still a boy who likes fast toys.
The silver ones stands for the german racers like Porsche and Mercedes (called Silberpfeile - silver arrows). The red one pays tribute to the italian Bella Machinas like Alfa Romeo, Maserati, etc. The blue one is of course dedicated to the above mentioned Ford GT40 as sponsored by Gulf Oil, who are also responsible for the beautiful and legendary paint job.
I know, there's one missing in british racing green ... maybe later.
Oh finally! Nice to see them irl. Lovely :-D
Posted by: Peter | October 10, 2007 at 01:50 PM