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Having TVDI TFOTJUJWJUZ IVNJMJUZ BOE exhausted all possibilities EFWPUJPOUPXBSETUIFTQPOTPSu in 10 years with Ferrari, the For the occasion, G-P has manufacturer wanted to move created the Laureato Tourbillon on in sport but no longer in Regatta Chronograph. The cars. 14-ligne, GPV02 manually The America’s Cup came wound calibre has a flying naturally to mind. In 2004, G- tourbillon and single-button, P’s boss, Luigi Macaluso, took column-wheel chronograph. Its part in a training session with countdown function is specific the team, at the suggestion of to the America’s Cup regatta Larry Ellison, a big customer rules. The retrograde, five-plus- of the brand and founder of five-minute countdown indicator BMW Oracle Racing. A couple is governed by a column-wheel, of weeks later, a long-term rotated to start, stop and zero by partnership was decided. The the single button. reasons ? The movement is housed in Macaluso’s son, Stefano, has a 46mm white-gold case. The a ready answer : i5IF UFBNT strap is black rubber. IVNBOBOEUFDIOJDBMRVBMJUJFTw ]XBUDIBSPVOEOPTQSJOH 8BUDINBLJOHJOUIFXJOE You don’t change a winning ute period. The smaller hours- team, so Omega’s back with counter is at 12 o’clock. The Emirates Team New Zealand. red-tipped, chronograph centre- The pair works well and the seconds hand ticks them off to young skipper, Dean Barker, is the start. The running seconds getting promising results, as re- are at 9 o’clock. The movement flected in the brand’s new chro- is housed in a stainless-steel nograph — the Seamaster NZL- case on a black rubber strap 32. This regatta watch has the studded in white. automatic Omega 3602 calibre, TAG Heuer, another great brand derived from the Omega 1120 known for its sports experience, and the Dubois Dépraz 2027. has resolved to iFNCBSLPODF A countdown indicator in a win- NPSFPOUIFMFHFOEBSZBEWFO dow shows the five minutes to UVSF PG TBJMJOHu But this time start with points that gradually with the Chinese contestant change from blue to red from — the first in the 151 years of one five-minute period to the the America’s Cup. “5IJTDIBM next. A black subdial ringed in MFOHF JT WFSZ EJGGFSFOU UP UIF silver at 3 o’clock shows the PUIFST u says Jean-Christophe elapsed minutes, again in blue Babin, TAG Heuer’s boss.i5IF or red according to the five-min- "NFSJDBT $VQ JT BMTP UPUBMMZ XBUDIBSPVOEOPTQSJOH] tion of 500. Devised in-house, the new calibre shows the time and the chronograph functions with three central hands. The high-tech movement works off five bi-directional motors and 230 components. In brushed steel with an anthracite screen, an aluminium crown in the red and yellow colours of the yacht, and a unique dragon-stamped caseback, this 44mm model displays two semicircular coun- ters : the one at 4 : 30 indicates the tenths of a second ; the oth- er at 7 : 30, the function mode — watch, chrono or regatta. For OFX UP UIF $IJOFTF 8F OFFE The objectives are twin : to be objective number two, Babin UP FOUFS UXP PS UISFF UJNFT UP worn with pride on the wrists of is iBXBSF UIBU UIJT DPVME CF B BDDVNVMBUF UIF XJOOJOH TLJMMT the first Chinese team, and to MPOH QSPDFTT CVU BT JO MVYVSZ BOE FYQFSJFODF GPS UIJT IJHI win the world’s most coveted XBUDINBLJOH MFBSOJOHBOEJN TUBUVT SBDF 5IBUT XIZ XF sporting trophy. The first ob- QSPWJOHBSFFTTFOUJBMu Here at UIJOL UIBU UIJT QBSUOFSTIJQ JT jective is met by the Aquaracer TAG they mean to tackle the job KVTUUIFGJSTUTUFQJOBMPOHUFSN Chrono Calibre S China Team, as a team. 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