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·Ten years ago I was presented by an automotive manufacturer for whom I'd been doing work, with a contemporary Tag Heuer Aquaracer as a leaving gift. A pretty miserable thing really - I regarded it as more Tag than Heuer. In contrast, my attention to Heuer has just been re-engaged by a photograph of Mauro Forghieri flashing his 1158 Carrera as he consults with Patrick Tambay in the cockpit of his 126C3 in 1983. This photograph is a Getty Image, so best not to post it here, but it features in the just published June 2019 issue of Octane magazine. Here, however, is Forghieri wearing the same watch, talking with Nikki Lauda.
The 1158 has particular motor racing associations, as with Autavia models and their connection especially with Jo Siffert. The gold variants, (1158 CHN), as worn by Forghieri, were originally made exclusively for the Ferrari F1 team, but Jack Heuer also gave one to Ronnie Peterson, (whom most of us from that era wish had secured a drive for the Scuderia), and this was sold recently for no less than CHF 225,000.
I'm not mad on gold cases, but the associations alone make this an impressive watch. Mauro must have liked it too, as the picture above is from 1975, eight years earlier than the image with Tambay.
The 1158 has particular motor racing associations, as with Autavia models and their connection especially with Jo Siffert. The gold variants, (1158 CHN), as worn by Forghieri, were originally made exclusively for the Ferrari F1 team, but Jack Heuer also gave one to Ronnie Peterson, (whom most of us from that era wish had secured a drive for the Scuderia), and this was sold recently for no less than CHF 225,000.
I'm not mad on gold cases, but the associations alone make this an impressive watch. Mauro must have liked it too, as the picture above is from 1975, eight years earlier than the image with Tambay.