The racecar legend chose a color that mimics the hues of his Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula One Team.
Not for want of ambition, though. At least, not on Hamilton’s part. “It wasn’t an invite,” the seven-time World Champion tells Robb Report, smiling wryly. “I usually ask. They know I want to do collabs.
You can feel how his confidence to push for a style that’s more ‘Lewis’ – he’s become known for his outlandish race weekend outfits and fondness for designers such as Miu Miu, Tommy Hilfiger, Rick Owens, and Prada – has grown. Like a whisky glass at the end of a long evening, his fingerprints are all over the third IWC carrying his name.
It’s tempting to wonder whether including those diamonds isn’t a not-so-subtle gesture towards the sport’s governing body, with whom Hamilton was not long ago engaged in a rather silly battle over the jewelry he is—or rather isn’t—allowed to wear on the track. The FIA rule banning jewelry on track had actually been in place since 2005, but until last year, it had never been enforced, and Hamilton had raced wearing earrings, a nose stud, and who knows what else besides.
Its base specs are pretty compelling, too—there are a pallet lever and an escape wheel made of diamond-coated silicon, produced using a method known as Diamond Shell technology. That does silicon’s usual thing of reducing friction and wear-and-tear and means that despite the demands placed on it, the movement will keep going for 68 hours without a rewind.
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