British Racing Green - Road & Racing

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The BRG is crafted with a bespoke 316L surgical-grade stainless steel case, engineered for exceptional durability and refined performance. Soft-touch pushers and a precision-machined screw-down crown, carved from solid stainless steel, deliver a seamless tactile experience.

Its hand-assembled fumé matte dial is elevated by applied indices and polished steel hands and markers, creating depth, contrast, and understated sophistication. The result is a timepiece equally at home on the circuit as it is in the most refined evening settings.

The case weighs a comfortable 95g. It measures 42.5mm in diameter, with a 49mm lug-to-lug, and is just 11.5mm thick. The case is polished, blending seamlessly into the design of the circular case is a sapphire crystal, which has multiple internal layers of anti-reflective coating. 

The watch carries a depth rating of 100m or 10ATM. Inside the watch you’ll find the tried and tested Japanese Miyota OS20 movements. Finished off with an ethically sourced leather strap with stitching.

Not many colours in the World of motorsport are as iconic as British Racing Green. 

In the days of the Gordon Bennet Cup, Count Eliot Zborowski, suggested that each national entrant be allotted a different colour. Every component of a car had to be produced in the competing country, as well as the driver being of that nationality. The races were hosted in the country of the previous year's winner. When Britain first competed in 1902, they had to choose a different colour from the national flag colours of red, white and blue, because those had already been taken for the 1900 race by America, Germany and France respectively.

When Selwyn Edge won the 1902 Gordon Bennett Cup race for England in his Napier it was decided that the 1903 race would be held in Ireland, at that time a part of the United Kingdom, as motor racing at the time was illegal in Great Britain. As a mark of respect for their Irish hosts the English Napier cars were painted shamrock green.

In keeping with these Irish/Napier roots, many of the earliest greens used on British racing cars were of a lighter olive, moss or emerald green. Later, darker shades became more common, though there was a return to lighter greens by HMW and other teams in the 1950s. Initially the colour use only applied to the Grandes Épreuves, but was later codified in the Code Sportif International (CSI) of the FIA for use in all international-level motor racing events.

Synonymous with great racing drivers such as Jack Brabham, Jim Clark, Sir Stirling Moss and (Sir) John Surtees, this colour evokes the time when motor racing was dominated by driving legends. From Bentley to BRM, to Lotus and Vanwall, they all used British Racing Green

The dial of this piece represents the detailed dials used in some of the cars that raced during the 50's and 60' and shows information such as distance travelled using the accurate chronograph feature.

Tech Specs

Case:
Diameter: 41mm

Lugg to lugg : 45mm
Material: Chrome finish stainless steel
Dial Colour: Fumé matt finish dial
Movement: Japanese Quartz
Water Resistance: 10ATM

Dial : Fumé matt finish dial in British Racing Green with luminous notches and indexes.

Glass : Flat sapphire 

Strap: English leather
Width: 20mm
Material: Sustainable grain leather
Colour: Black with contrast stitch 

Instruction Manual : LINK