|
What make are they? I assume they're for advertising a sponsor, but they often get covered by the drivers' overalls.
|
Red Bull are sponsored by Casio. Bet they're well chuffed :-)
John
|
I remember watching the post-race interview of the Indy 500 winner a few years ago.
Someone was whipping off his baseball cap every few seconds and replacing it with another one.
It must have been so that each sponsor could get a pic of the champ wearing their colours in his moment of triumph.
|
I don't suppose your typical F1 driver cares too much about the difference between a £150 Casio and a £1,000 TAG Heuer when he's only wearing it to please the sponsors. I expect it's the job of someone in the team to ensure he's correctly accoutred with sponsored gear before he goes out in front of the cameras. If he'd rather wear something by A. Lange & Sohne when he's at home, he can afford to buy his own.
One thing a driver won't tell you - in private anyway - is that his watch is vital to his success on the track. Not that that'll put the wannabe off buying a watch just like the one worn by Giovanni Gofasta.
|
|
One driver wears a Stowa Fleige r- exclusive in a way but not silly prices - described in one magazine as not a "me too" watch.
|
I was in Selfridges on Oxford St. the other day. They have a watch dept. on the ground floor.
Idly browsing while waiting for someone, I spotted one which I can't remember the name of at £68,000 and some change.
It looked quite nice and everything but I was moved to wonder at what point I could imagine myself thinking "that's ok then, I'll have one of those". I mean, even if someone was seriously rich 68 grand for a watch must still sound steamy.
|
|
Wouldn't have been a Stowa - hand built in Germany to order and at less than 500 quid a bargain !
|
>> One driver wears a Stowa Fleiger- exclusive in a way but not silly prices
>> - described in one magazine as not a "me too" watch.
I have a Stowa (bought by me years ago) and a Junghans (bought by Mrs. B. as a birthday present). Both hand made in Germany and both have a feeling of being very nicely made and are very slim in design. I didn't realise a Stowa was considered exclusive, mine cost about 500 Deutschmarks at the time and I bought it after wandering into a Jeweller's shop with a view to buying an expensive watch to treat myself (I was single and highly paid at the time).
After realising I would be far too embarrassed to wear anything like a Rolex or Tag Heuer I settled on the Stowa (much to the obvious disappointment of the Jeweller) which was less than 1/10 of what I'd considered paying and to my eyes considerably more desirable. Jeremy Clarkson had a point when he said "The only thing worse than a fake Rolex is a real one".
|
|
Only exclusive in the sense that enough people don't know how good they are..or about them !
|
Couple of years back, recall Lewis seeing walking up to the podium, and was ahaded a watch by the sponsor, a baseball cap by another etc etc etc etc.
Money talks!
If somebody offered me a few hundred K a year to waer brand X, I'd be a damn fool not to take it.
|
A neighbour of mine was asked to be a chauffeur at the British GP. He leapt at the chance, despite having to be there at some ungodly hour.
His job entailed driving the VIPs from the helicopter landing area to the paddock.
He wished one F1 driver 'have a good race' and happened to take him back afterwards. The driver came second (IIRC), thanked him for not wishing him 'good luck' and gave him the watch off his wrist!
|
|
Lewis is sponsored by TAG Heuer, but as pointed out above poor old Mark Webber and Seb Vettel have the embarrasment of having to wear a Casio
|
...have the embarrasment of having to wear a Casio...
Which lasts longer, is more reliable, more shock resistant, lighter, neater and keeps better time than the TAG.
|
>> Which lasts longer, is more reliable, more shock resistant, lighter, neater and keeps better time than the TAG.
>>
*Sigh*
You just don't get cool, do you iffy? ;-)
|
...You just don't get cool, do you iffy? ;-)...
Certainly not when it comes to watches.
Who wears them now, anyway?
There's a clock on the mobile, a clock in the car and a clock on the netbook/laptop.
|
>> ...You just don't get cool, do you iffy? ;-)...
>>
>> Certainly not when it comes to watches.
You and me both. I like a digital for practicality - I still do the odd bit of running and like to see how slow I am these days - but that only means paying up to about £30 for a 30 lap memory model. Or I'll wear an analogue that looks 'nice', £20 max.
I can see the appeal of a shiny new Mac, or an expensive camera, or various other techy gadgets. But I just don't 'get' expensive watches...
Last edited by: Focus on Fri 26 Nov 10 at 22:05
|
Old car mags are now packed with ads for watches, many of which look totally ludicrous with 'lightness' holes in the hands, winders imitating Jaguar oil filler caps and sundry other nonsense.
One otherwise excellent magazine now, sadly, has a watch page.
My 8.99€ Lidl is absolutely magnificent at telling me the accurate time when I am at the wheel and unable to see the clock on the dash. The plating is a bit thin, though.
|
>> >> Which lasts longer, is more reliable, more shock resistant, lighter, neater and keeps better
>> time than the TAG.
>> >>
>> *Sigh*
>>
>> You just don't get cool, do you iffy? ;-)
If its not in Primark or Argos, its just not on the Iffy radar.
|
I have several watches. However, the two I wear the most are the most different to each other. One is a 22 year old Tag which still looks like new despite heavy use. The other is a Casio G-Shock digital solar powered waveceptor chrono. The Casio is by far the more useful and clever of the two but I still just like the feel of the Tag. They were pretty rare in this country when I got it but of course they are as common as fertiliser now. I keep it as a reminder that it was the only thing of any significant value I managed to keep from my first marriage! Still like it though. As a rough guide I tend to wear the Casio at weekends or on holiday and the Tag during the week but there's no hard and fast rule really. I also interchange them both with some others I have depending on what ensemble I have favoured that day...
:-)
|
>> I have several watches. However, the two I wear the most are the most different
>> to each other. One is a 22 year old Tag which still looks like new
>> despite heavy use.
>>
I'm trying to work out how you give a watch heavy use. Do you look at it a lot, or give it a sort of penetrating stare while verbally abusing it?
|
|
Heh heh, no, what I mean is it's been worn a lot and used to be what I used when diving but now I just use the Casio for when I'm in the water.
|
I've a weakness for watches, but I know that anything over £100 - maybe less - is just jewellery unless you happen to be a diver or an astronaut. I can't get excited about the Omega Seamasters and junior Rolexes that seem to be part of the uniform of my younger management colleagues.
I have a number of watches too, mostly mechanical. None is very expensive, some very cheap. I usually wear a traditionally styled Oris because I like the dial, the separate seconds sub-dial and the date pointer. I can't read the date without my specs though.
For clarity you can't beat pilot watch designs (like some of the Stowas) though - for obvious reasons they have the clearest and cleanest dials. My favourite is an Ollech & Wajs fitted by MkII Watches in the US with a replica "type 48" pilot watch dial and hands - the best dial and hands for reading I have ever seen, based on the IWC Mk XI produced from 1948-84.
goo.gl/3UoIL
If you want something special that you are unlikely to see anyone else wearing, MkII are worth looking at.
www.mkiiwatches.com
Last edited by: Manatee on Sat 27 Nov 10 at 16:03
|
I have a Seamaster as everyday wear* I love the weight and clarity of it both in daylight and at night - I also have a very basic 1959 Rolex Oyster - same age as me and just as plain and simple - you wind it and it tells you the time - The Stowa is only worn occasionally. I love black faced watch and have done since a kid.
*Apart from when I'm on the bike I wear a Seiko Kinetic Diver's watch bought it half price in the States - a lot bulkier than the Omega and the Stowa come to that but perfect on the bike as it's well waterproof...
|
No offence intended to Omega and Rolex wearers Pug - lovely watches in themselves, and I won't turn my nose up if you want to pass one on when you've finished with it ;-)
A pal of mine has a rather nice Steel Yachtmaster that I wouldn't mind either...
I did nearly buy a Seamaster GMT when I was doing more travelling. I made do with a Citizen in the end, telling myself that if uitility was the reason I ought to be sensible :-(
Last edited by: Manatee on Sat 27 Nov 10 at 16:24
|
...If its not in Primark or Argos, its just not on the Iffy radar...
Ooo, saucer of milk for the forum's resident fashion Tsar.
|
Watches worn by F1 drivers on the podium - Zero
