Restricted-edition Porsche 911 S/T evokes limited-edition watch

Designed for collectors, the 518-horsepower 2024 Porsche 911 S/T celebrates a uncommon model of the unique automobile. Deliveries have not began but, however Porsche Design has already unveiled a limited-edition watch that celebrates the most recent limited-edition member of the 911 lineup.

The watch, which known as “Chronograph 1 — 911 S/T,” incorporates a dial that would not look misplaced on the dashboard of a classic rally automobile. It is black with white, inexperienced and purple particulars, the “911 S/T” emblem above the date, and a six-speed handbook shift sample (with reverse above and left, German car-style). Porsche Design explains it highlighted “60” and the strains resulting in it in purple in honor of the 911’s sixtieth anniversary.

Just like the 911 S/T, the Chronograph 1 — 911 S/T was developed with a deal with lightness so the case is made out of sand-blasted titanium left naked. A number of straps can be found, together with black or brown leather-based with a symmetrical gap sample and sand-blasted titanium to match the case. If you cannot determine, Porsche Design notes {that a} quick-change mechanism helps you to change the strap in seconds with out instruments.

The caseback is simply as attention-grabbing to have a look at because the dial. It consists of a seven-layer anti-reflective sapphire-crystal cowl that gives a view of the mechanism, which is pushed by a rotor. Patrons can order the rotor in Sensible Silver, Darkish Silver or black. The rotor’s cap is formed just like the 911 S/T’s center-locking wheel cap, and the watch is engraved with a serial quantity that matches the automobile’s.

Porsche Design will cap manufacturing of the Chronograph 1 — 911 S/T at 1,963 items. Uncoincidentally, manufacturing of the 2024 911 S/T can be restricted to 1,963 items. The watch prices $13,500 however there is a catch: solely fans who purchase the $291,650 automobile are eligible to order one.

This is not the primary time the Porsche 911 has impressed a watch’s design. In October 2022, TAG Heuer launched a pair of watches created to mark 50 years of the 911 Carrera 2.7 RS. Each had been restricted editions; one value $7,750, whereas the opposite was priced at a car-like $23,550.

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