2010年7月16日星期五

Scuderia Ferrari One Watch By Cabestan

The original Cabestan watch included a winch on the side of the piece for winding it. Then that piece was removed as a module that you stick on the watch when you want to wind it - but that was expensive and caused problems. The newer Cabestan Nostromo watch actually has a pop out crown (top right "screw" pushes in to pop out). Seems as though that solution might be best for the Scuderia Ferrari One watch as well.The watch will be attached to a cool special leather strap - also in either black and yellow or black and red. The strap deployment clasp is pretty cool looking as well. I can't wait to see final versions of the watch - which are due out in a few months from now. I will of course keen look out for them. Again, there will only be 60 of these watches ever made over the next year years (hand-made, one at a time), and they will cost 300,000 euros a piece, on top of what you already spent on your Ferrari automobile.RuSeparate ones are used for the hours, minutes, and seconds. Colors in the movement materials represent similar tones to Ferrari cars and their engines. Like all Cabestan watches, seeing the movement and using it to tell the time are the absolute highlights of their watches.Ruchonnet didn't design the watch without help from Ferrari of course. He worked with Ferrari design director Flavio Manzoni (and likely the team) out in Maranello to identify those parts of Formula 1 Ferrari cars should be included in the design. The watch case has been specially designed to evoke elements of Ferrari race cars. The piece isn't meant to look like a car, but simply thematically go with them. The sides of the watch case are done in a special magnesium alloy, and the "screws" on the sides of the case have been designed to look like F1, quick change wheel nuts. I'd have to be in a room with both the cars and the watch to come to a conclusion on that for myself. Though if the picky people at Ferrari are OK with it, the watch is probably in good company when in the same room with the super, super car. I also added an image of a Ferrari F1 car steering wheel that you can visually compare with the watch. See how there is some similarity there? Ruchonnet even borrowed fonts from car gauges for the numerals on the rotating drums in the movement. One little question for me is how the watch will be wound.