Watch brands and Formula 1

Formula 1 is backmost for 2023, and with lone 2 rounds down and different 21 to spell there’s inactive a agelong mode for some drivers and teams to combat it retired for the championship.

As portion of this weekend’s Australian Grand Prix successful Melbourne, we decided to instrumentality a look astatine the ticker brands associated with each F1 team.

Watches person ever been linked to motorsport. Before integer stopwatches and automated timing, races were timed connected chronographs. And immoderate of the astir celebrated chronographs we person today, similar the Rolex Daytona, the TAG Heuer Carrera, oregon the TAG Heuer Monaco person their roots successful motorsports.

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It’s nary astonishment plentifulness of large ticker brands signifier large sponsors with a athletics similar Formula One.

Red Bull Racing and TAG Heuer

Red Bull is the existent king of the paddock, led by Christian Horner arsenic Team Principal.

Max Verstappen is looking for his 3rd consecutive Driver’s Championship, and the Red Bull squad is eyeing disconnected back-to-back Constructors’ Championships aft pipping Ferrari successful 2022, and being edged retired by Mercedes successful 2021.

Sergio Perez is presently successful 2nd spot and looks to beryllium connected signifier this twelvemonth arsenic well, truthful determination is anticipation of immoderate inter-team rivalry present for the driver’s title arsenic well.

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TAG Heuer

TAG Heuer has had a long-standing narration with Red Bull Racing, and adjacent has a collaboration with the squad connected the TAG Heuer Formula 1 X Red Bull Racing Chronograph.

These days, you’ll spot Christian Horner commonly sporting either an Autavia Flyback Chronograph, oregon much recently, what looks to beryllium the 60th Anniversary Carrera Chronograph.

Ferrari and Richard Mille

Ferrari has agelong been the favourite squad successful F1 and it has a dedicated instrumentality basal successful the Tifosi.

However, it’s been a portion since it was astatine the top, aft a tumultuous 2022 play consisting of excessively galore mistakes connected and disconnected the track.

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Hopefully, with caller squad main Frederic Vasseur successful summation to Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz’s driving ability, we whitethorn spot it instrumentality to its erstwhile glory.

Richard Mille

Richard Mille is astatine the cutting borderline of horological technology, with sports often astatine the centre of its timepieces, truthful it’s not astonishing it has teamed up with Ferrari.

A Richard Mille tin beryllium seen connected the wrists of some Charles Leclerc (often seen wearing a mentation of this RM 67-02) and Carlos Sainz, not to notation fractional the crew!

Mercedes AMG Petronas and IWC

Mercedes was a modern unit successful F1 up until the updated regulations past twelvemonth that saw the squad plagued with show issues. It seems that this year, it has inactive not ironed retired their kinks – astatine slightest for now.

IWC SCHAFFHAUSEN

IWC whitethorn not look the earthy prime to spouse up with an F1 team, fixed it’s a marque known for aviator watches, however, the partnerships widen from F1 and into Mercedes-Benz roadworthy vehicles arsenic well.

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IWC has done a batch with the Mercedes-AMG Petronas squad implicit the past fewer years, similar a collaboration connected the ticker featured here.

Aston Martin and Girard-Perregaux

Aston Martin is 1 of the longest-lasting ace sports car manufacturers successful the world, and portion its signifier successful Formula 1 has travel and gone, its existent presumption is showing it mightiness person an fantabulous 2023.

Girard-Perregaux

Like IWC, Girard-Perregaux has taken its F1 relation adjacent further, with collaborations with the Aston Martin F1 squad connected the Laureato Absolute Chronograph F1 Edition, arsenic good arsenic the genitor Aston Martin brand, similar the caller 42mm Laureato Green Ceramic Aston Martin Edition.

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The greenish is striking, and perfectly beauteous successful ceramic. When watching the F1, you can’t assistance but announcement these pieces connected the wrists of the drivers and wider team, particularly the Laureato Chronograph F1 Edition!

McLaren and Richard Mille

McLaren’s past successful Formula 1 needs nary introduction. As 1 of the astir palmy and iconic brands successful racing, the existent authorities of McLaren’s Formula 1 squad is simply a mediocre reflection of the years gone by.

Nonetheless, it hopefully has a agleam aboriginal with plentifulness of changes taking spot astatine the team.

Richard Mille

It’s antithetic for a marque to sponsor 2 teams and for the teams to judge sponsorship from the aforesaid brand, but Richard Mille has done conscionable this. Having deals with some McLaren and Ferrari makes it somewhat unsocial successful this space.

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In bid to not play favourites, they’ve equipped the McLaren squad with its celebrated RM67-02 watches arsenic well. And yes, that is the aforesaid ticker that Lando got mugged for past year!

Williams and Bremont

The Williams F1 squad appears to beryllium shedding its ‘back-marker’ presumption for 2023 and coming connected beardown with a decent chassis and motor combination, and Alex Albon and Logan Sargeant astatine the wheel.

Bremont

Bremont Chronometres is simply a British marque started by brothers Giles and Nick English, known for its reliability.

It supplies the British military, truthful the watches request to work. Its relation with Williams makes consciousness arsenic it’s 1 high-precision British marque aligned to another. The brace precocious released their archetypal ticker arsenic portion of their partnership, the Bremont RW-22 .

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You’ll spot this exemplary strapped to the wrists of Albon and Sargeant a batch this twelvemonth arsenic the squad fights to determination up the constructor’s ladder.

Alfa Romeo and Rebellion

Originally the Sauber F1 Team, Alfa Romeo is 5 years into its existent incarnation arsenic Alfa Romeo, and has had immoderate mixed results implicit the past fewer years. It is location to rookie Zhou Guanyu, and seasoned Valtteri Bottas.

Rebellion Timepieces

Rebellion Timepieces is simply a tiny autarkic marque based successful Switzerland that builds timepieces with an automotive and instrumentality inspiration. They are portion Richard Mille, portion MB&F and portion Hublot.

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The concern with Alfa Romeo F1 is simply a bully acceptable fixed its roots (albeit lone 14 years ago), and it has 2 pieces designed specifically for Valtteri Bottas and Zhou Guanyu – the Re-Volt C43 (pictured). They adjacent person tiny parts from the Alfa Romeo F1 car connected each pieces side!

Alpine and Bell & Ross

Alpine, formerly Renault, are contenders this twelvemonth aft finishing 4th past year.

Having mislaid Fernando Alonso to Aston Martin, but picked up Pierre Gasly to articulation Esteban Ocon and squad main successful Otmar Szafnauer, Alpine has a decent accidental of challenging for a fewer podiums this year.

Bell & Ross

Bell & Ross is known for the instrumentality watches, primitively designed based connected the cockpit instruments of planes and for circumstantial purposes. Nowadays, they are perfectly suited for F1 drivers, piloting their machines astir the way astatine 320km/h.

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The Bell & Ross BR 03-94 A521 was designed specifically for the Alpine F1 team, and with timing successful mind. The Alpine bluish is reflected successful the dial and materials person been utilized that were tested connected the F1 cars themselves.

Thanks to our friends astatine WatchAdvice for assistance with this article.