IWC Schaffhausen’s role as official partner of the Passione Caracciola rally is a further expression of the company’s passion for motor racing at its classic best. To get the race under way, replica IWC watches uk brand ambassador and FORMULA ONE driver Nico Rosberg and safety car driver Bernd Mayländer put in an exclusive appearance and drove Mercedes-Benz classic cars from Stuttgart to Schaffhausen. The Passione Caracciola rally, which is celebrating its premiere this year, will help ensure that the legend of Rudolf Caracciola, one of motor racing’s all-time greatest drivers, lives on.

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IWC Schaffhausen is once again signalling its commitment to classic motor racing. As a partner of the Passione Caracciola, the Swiss replica Breitling watchmaking company supports the exclusive regularity rally, which is being held for the first time this year. The event, which takes participants from Stuttgart to Lugano via Schaffhausen, is dedicated to the memory of Rudolf Caracciola, the legendary racing driver who led the Mercedes-Benz team during the 1930s and after whom the rally is named. In spring of this year, IWC was Timing Partner of the Goodwood Members’ Meeting in Goodwood, England. Now, through the Passione Caracciola, IWC has intensified its involvement in historic motor racing events. “IWC has many connections with motor racing,” explains IWC CEO Georges Kern. “In addition to our role as Official Engineering Partner of the MERCEDES AMG PETRONAS Formula One™ Team, we have also forged a link with classic cars through our cooperation with Mercedes-Benz Classic. At the most recent international Klausenrace in 2013, we sent the Silver Arrow W25 in which Rudolf Caracciola won the famous Swiss mountain race in the racing category in 1934 to take part. His record has remained unbroken to this day and, with the Passione Caracciola, we are proud to honour the memory of an exceptionaldriver.”

ROSBERG AND MAYLÄNDER AT THE WHEEL

At yesterday’s start of the first Passione Caracciola rally, participants gathered in their fabulous collector’s cars at the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart. Around 30 cars, all built between 1930 and 1960, were entered to take part in this very special rally. In its role as official partner, IWC Schaffhausen started out in a number of selected Mercedes-Benz classic cars. Prime among these was the famous grand tourer, the 300 SLR (W196 S), with the starting number 417, the same vehicle that on 1 May 1955 won the Mille Miglia in Brescia in the series-built sports car category. A silver-grey 300 SL Roadster (W198 II) and a red 300 SL (R107) completed the attractive IWC fleet that made its way to Schaffhausen. Nico Rosberg, MERCEDES AMG PETRONAS Formula One™ Team driver and IWC replica watches for sale brand ambassador, together with Bernd Mayländer, the official FORMULA ONE safety car driver, put in an exclusive appearance.“ I adore classic cars. Nothing compares to the sound you get from the engine. And unlike a modern vehicle, you really feel the car, even at low speeds,” says Nico Rosberg, explaining his passion for classic cars.

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With the In The Pocket watch,Hermès is reviving a fundamental piece that was to forge its cheap Hermès replica watchmaking destiny already spanning more than a century of history. A family history mingling a love of horses, exceptional leather-making expertise, as well as a perpetually effervescent inventiveness in creating beautiful objects meeting practical needs.

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It all began in 1912, when Jacqueline Hermès, still a child at the time, received a gift from her father in the shape of an ingenious “porte-oignon” or pocket-watch holder designed to be secured to the wrist. It had been designed so that the keen young horsewoman could ride without having to attach her watch to her clothing or slip it into her pocket. Testifying to the original Hermès expertise in the field of saddle- and harness-making, this leather strap was designed like those worn by stable lads, surrounding the pocket watch and adopting its  shape so as to provide ideal protection.

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Reinvented in 2012 under the name “In The Pocket”, this iconic model now returns in a rose gold composition clad in a sophisticated alligator exterior. A pocket-watch that may be transformed at will into a wristwatch, it embodies both the historical leather hand craftsmanship of Hermè s and its best fake Breitling watchmaking development to the point of becoming a full-f ledged Manufacture now in the hands of the seventh generation of the founding family.

Issued in a 178-piece limited edition, the In The Pocket watch is distinguished by its extreme sobriety. The 40 mm diameter of the delicately rounded rose gold case increases to 49 mm when worn on the wrist. Its finely grained silvered dial avoids any superfluous ornamentation so as to provide the clearest, most self-evident expression of time. The baton-type hands sweep over pared-down numerals, while the small seconds ticks round at 3 o’Clock, all driven by the Manufacture Hermès H1837 movement with a 50-hour power reserve. Crafted in keeping with the finest horological traditions, this refined self-winding mechanism features a circulargrained and snailed mainplate, while its oscillating weight is adorned with the brand’s signature “sprinkling of Hs” motif.

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The incredibly complex st rap of the “In The Pocket” model calls for lengthy and patient workmanship. Composed of two longer and shorter sections, the plain strap end and the buckle strap end (sanglon and boucleteau in French), it is hand crafted in the leather-making workshops of La Montre Hermès in Switzerland.

These two parts are composed of three layers of leather: alligator; an inner cowgrain leather reinforcement ensuring impeccable sturdiness; and a Zermatt calfskin lining.

First comes the cutting process, including layer cutting; the hides are soaked and then pressed into a Hermès replica for sale mould. They dry for 10 days before being cut with a pointed tool, layercut, sanded down and glued. Each of the parts is then partially sewn; the buckle strap end is perforated to free up the spaces that will reveal the dial and through which the plain strap end and the crown will pass.

The work continues on the table, with the buckle end and the plain strap end being fitted together, marked with a compass, indented and sewn using the saddlestitching technique.

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