The need for speed- Le Mans, Formula 1 to Red Bull Racing, a closer look at the motorsports worlds love for luxury watches
Le Mans winners get a Rolex, Richard Mille partnered Formula One drivers Kimi Räikkönen and Felipe Massa, TAG Heuer supports Red Bull Racing while Lewis Hamilton has a signature IWC Schaffhausen ? exploring the motorsports world?s love for luxury watches
Did you hear the one about the Canadian woman who found a watch between the cushions of a US$25 sofa she bought from a charity shop four years ago" It was a Rolex Daytona 6241, known as the Paul Newman. It was not Newman?s actual Daytona ? that sold for US$17.75 million a few years ago ? but it was still worth a tidy US$250,000.
Rolex has been involved with motorsports since the 1930s and is a global partner and official timepiece of Formula One as well as the FIA World Endurance Championship. Winners at the Rolex 24 Hours at Daytona and at Le Mans receive the Cosmograph Daytona with an engraved case-back. Rolex 24 victor Scott Pruett says the Rolex is a symbol of the commitment to win. ?There?s no current driver or the past driver who wouldn?t say the most memorable thing you can take away from this race is the watch.? The Oyster Perpetual Cosmograph Daytona, to give its full name, or Reference 116520, is third-generation, powered by caliber 4130, a self-winding mechanical chronograph movement. Rolex says its architecture incorporates fewer components than a standard chronograph, allowing the power reserve to be extended from 50 to 72 hours. It is the driver?s boon companion because elapsed time can be measured ...
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