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
Click the thumbs up >Aston Martin’s new DBX SUV accounted for more than a quarter of the British carmaker’s 2020 sales as volumes declined by 32% in a COVID-impacted 2020.
The Gaydon-based OEM, which came under new ownership in 2020, sold a total of 4,150 retail vehicles last year across the year, with the DBX accounting for 1,171.
Its wholesale volume declined still further, falling 42% from 5,862 units to 3,394.
The result was a 37.6% dip in revenues to £611.8 million (2019: £980.5m) and an operating loss of £323m, including a £98m of adjusting operating items, largely the impairment of capitalised R&D due to technology and cycle plan changes .
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Aston Martin set to display BWT pink on AMR21
Date published:
February 24 2021
BWT’s association with the team now known as Aston Martin will continue, it has been announced.
The Austria-based Best Water Technology company were the main sponsors of Racing Point for the past four seasons, with the cars sporting a distinctive pink livery.
Recent reports suggested that as Racing Point have now become Aston Martin, with Cognizant named as their chief sponsor, BWT would be looking for a different Formula 1 team to join up with.
Now it has been confirmed BWT will retain a connection with the team based at Silverstone – but Aston Martin, who launch their car titled the AMR21 on March 3, will no longer be the ‘pink panthers’.