Thursday, November 10, 2011

Stefan Johansson Vaxjo: Chronographs Racing


Nineteen races a year starting in March and end in November, when not sitting in the cockpit, then spend the day to keep fit, finish a race and have to run to catch the plane to the next destination, hoping to can adapt the first six / nine different time zones at once.
More than nine months a year, a Formula 1 driver who live like this. Of time for hobbies and passions, there is not much except recently some little game of poker in the Grand Prix weekend - before going to bed early.

Times are far away from Clay Regazzoni and James Hunt, the most famous viveur and later pulls the circus, but also those of Elio de Angelis - our valuable home rider who unfortunately died in 1986 at the Paul Ricard circuit during testing of mundane.Helium, in addition to winning two Grand Prix was a talented pianist and even if they coped very well to draw portraits.

Stefan Johansson memorable ex-Ferrari driver was another of the 80 sample to relax in his spare time he loved to paint. "Little Leaf" - "Little Leaf" , so called from a small Stefan's father, moved to the U.S. to continue his career professional driver, gradually began to learn some mechanical watches, their complexity and forms so as to begin to draw and produce under the brand name Stefan Johansson Vaxjo .

These are watches that reflect the world of racing that Stefan continues to live with passion and with great results. And 'his work the chronograph AND MARK VIII 033shows that the edge of the dial for each index, excluding 12 o'clock and 6 o'clock, ten classic colorful flags FIA official, used in any international competition run by the commissioners.
The steel case is of enormous size: it measures 47 mm in diameter, but the satin finish to protect it from minor scratches that can occur in the narrow cockpit of a race car, are extremely elegant.

Mount a reliable Valjoux 7750 automatic mechanical movement with 30-minute and hour. There are the small continuous seconds, a measure that can only be done with the chronograph. The time is 3 hours long with a window that also shows the previous and following days.
For the straps, there are several possibilities: one in Silicon, good to stay engaged in environments with high temperatures, or python or crocodile with a core of PVC. 
The Mark VIII also built - limited edition - with high cash- tech entirely of carbon.
Stefan Johansson Vaxjo MARK VIII F658 is instead a chronograph that features a Valjoux 7751 and has a form with the complete annual calendar with moon phases.

Curiosity

At one time, and unlike today's riders, usually very superstitious, for any reason would never have changed the graphics of your helmet. Of the three characteristics of Swedish green leaves until the company did not Stefan went to race in Formula CART (USA), where it seems that some colleagues - indicating that color as unfortunate - persuaded him to paint the blue.




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