Girard-Perregaux has announced its partnership with the Aston Martin Cognizant Formula One
TM Team and its branding will feature in the race cars at the start of the 2021 F1 season in Bahrain.
In addition, the first timepiece to be borne from the collaboration between Aston Martin and Girard-Perregaux will be revealed later this year.
In the relentless pursuit of speed, time is the overriding concern. The race against the clock has captivated fans of motorsport for more than 100 years while the measurement of time has challenged watchmakers throughout history. The similarities between both domains are clear to see.
Both Aston Martin and Girard-Perregaux were founded by visionaries with an innate passion. Aston Martin was founded in 1913 by Lionel Martin and Robert Bamford, while Girard-Perregaux can trace its origins to 1791 when Jean-François Bautte, aged just 19, produced his first watch. But most notably, it was a love story which led to the birth of one of the greatest names
Singapore s pre-eminent watch retailer, The Hour Glass, was established in October 1979 by Dr. Henry Tay and Jannie Chan. The two had had the vision of transforming the face of watch retail, presenting to customers a destination that was refined, upscale and focused on fine watchmaking, something until then that had been absent on the Singapore landscape.
Right around the same time more than four decades ago, a man by the name of Carlo Crocco was crafting his own destiny in Italy. His ambition was to create a radically different luxury-sports watch, the very notion of which had only been invented a few years before. It was in April 1980 at the Basel Fair that the world would see the first Hublot ever produced, barely months after The Hour Glass opened its doors.