I started working at Smiths Industries this month so in their honour I have been wearing my old Smiths watch. Appropriate to my 1980 4/4 which also has dials by Smiths.
The watch was an eighteenth birthday present from my parents and is therefore older than the Morgan.
Hublot launched the Aero Bang Morgan watch in 2009 and the first 100-watches were reserved for AeroMax owners who could have their chassis number engraved on the back by Hublot.
I'm afraid I've sold the AeroMax but have kept the watch.
Since then Hublot has become "the watchmaking partner of Ferrari" (in 2011). It is apparently a "comprehensive agreement covering all the activities of Ferrari and Hublot, both in terms of brand image and the commercial activities of both companies" so no more Morgan Aero Bang's.
P.S. Love the Bremont Martin Baker II and all the Bremont's come to that!
I have the pleasure of owning a Bremont Martin Baker 1.5 - they made a limited run of 20 and whilst they have the hands and bezel from the MB1, they do not have the red barrel (quite rightly so).
I like Bremonts very much and agree that it has a very 'Morgan' feel to both the products and the brand itself. Whilst I'd love Bremont and Morgan to do a collaboration, having spoke to the powers that be on both sides, it isn't on the cards; which, IMHO, is a massive shame and missed opportunity.
Smiths Digital, takes me back to the seventies, the rich kid at school had one similar, (blue dial chrome case )the rest of us wore Timex or Ingersoll, - his dad owned a night club and he was expelled when he was thirteen, last time I saw him was in the 80's driving through town in a white Lotus Esprit, so perhaps he wasn't so bad after all
- his dad owned a night club and he was expelled when he was thirteen, last time I saw him was in the 80's driving through town in a white Lotus Esprit, so perhaps he wasn't so bad after all
Really?
I'd have thought the 'seen driving a Lotus' was the final straw in his descent to dodgy-status