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Holiday Watch: Alfa Romeo Contagiri

There are car watches, and there are car watches. And this, boys and girls, is a car watch. The kind that will make the likes of the “Ferrari Engineered by Panarai” and “Breitling for Bentley” look like cheap marketing gimmicks.

What you see here is the Contragiri; tachometer in Italian. It’s being made by one of the watchmaking industry’s best kept secrets, Giuliano Mazzuoli, who just happens to be a huge Alfa Romeo fan, having raced Alfa GTAs in the 70’s, created the Contragiri as a tribute to the iconic Italian automaker. It features a unique rev-counter black dial concealing the 25-jewel automatic movement with 42-hour power reserve, encased in black and white gold with sapphire crystal and revolving bezel, and held onto the wearer’s wrist by a sleek black rubber strap.

Mazzuoli unveiled the Contagiri this past summer, and while he hasn’t unveiled the price, it’s sure to have a good number of zeros at the end. Somehow we don’t think the price tag will prevent them all from selling the limited run of 500 copies, though. Only through authorized dealers, of course, but you can reserve yours on the website, or check out the Luxe.TV video by clicking here.

[Source: Giuliano Mazzuoli via Inside Line]