WatchTime New York, America?s largest luxury watch show, is just a few weeks away! As we continue our countdown to the long-awaited collectors’ event, taking place at Manhattan?s Gotham Hall on October 26-27, we are highlighting notable new timepieces that guests will discover there. Today we showcase the Eberhard Nuvolari Legend, a vintage-look chronograph inspired by one of the icons of early 20th-century auto racing.
The Eberhard Nuvolari Legend is inspired by one of Italy’s most beloved historical racing drivers.
Eberhard & Co., which is making its first appearance at a WatchTime New York event, has long been popular in Italy, and the brand?s fondness for Italian design and culture has brought about about one of the most enduring relationships between a watch company and an auto racing icon. Tazio Nuvolari (1892-1953), known as Montovano Volante, or the Flying Mantuan, was a motorcycle racer turned racecar driver who won 24 Grand Prix races and raced for Alfa Corse, Scuderia Ferrari, and Maserati. Once dubbed ?the greatest driver of the past, present, and future? by none other than Ferdinand Porsche, he remains revered by fans of racing history, especially in his native Italy. Eberhard launched its first Tazio Nuvolari Chronograph in 1992, the centenary of the racing legend?s birth, and has since grown it into an entire collection. The latest addition to the family of racing-inspired timepieces, the Nuvolari Legend, premiered at Baselworld 2018. The watc...