Earning its Stripes: Chopard Mille Miglia Classic Chronograph Racing Stripes Edition
Chopard’s 30-year partnership with the Mille Miglia series of classic car rallies has yielded some very intriguing timepieces ? including, most recently, a quintet of models with nation-specific racing-color dials. The latest, which debuted at the 2018 Rennsport Reunion in Laguna Seca, California, the world’s largest gathering of Porsche racing cars, is no exception. The Chopard Mille Miglia Classic Chronograph Racing Stripes Edition, this week’s Watch to Watch, takes its visual cues from a very specific era in Porsche auto racing and the legendary car design that emerged from that era.
Chopard Mille Miglia Classic Chronograph Racing Stripes Edition (Ref. 168589-3021)
The blue and white racing stripes that adorn the dial and caseback of the watch trace their origins to 1951 and an innovative, ambitious millionaire automaker named Briggs Cunningham. Rules set at the time by the FIA (Fédération Internationale de l”Automobile) stipulated that all racing teams use colors that represented their countries ? the reason being that since Formula One cars racing at top speed tended to look very much alike as they went by in a blur, different colors for each team helped spectators tell them apart. American cars were to be painted either white or, if frame rails were exposed, blue. Cunningham, whose dream was to win the 24 Hours of Le Mans with his eponymous racing team, entered two cars of his own design in the 1951 edition of the prestigious endurance race, ...
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