{"id":4402,"date":"2013-07-29T10:58:25","date_gmt":"2013-07-29T10:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/watchpro.wpengine.com\/2013\/07\/29\/christopher-ward-reveals-new-aston-martin-model\/"},"modified":"2013-07-29T10:58:25","modified_gmt":"2013-07-29T10:58:25","slug":"christopher-ward-reveals-new-aston-martin-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/christopher-ward-reveals-new-aston-martin-model\/","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Ward reveals new Aston Martin model"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: larger\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">Christopher Ward Watches is celebrating 100 years of iconic Aston Martin cars with the introduction of a modified version of the sold-out C70 DBR1 Chronometer.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The watch brand was already committed to recognising the occasion when Christopher Bennett of TMBArtMetal revealed a piece of aluminium that formed part of the winning Aston Martin DBR1\/2 in the Le Mans 24 hour race of 1959.<\/p>\n<p>The car that the piece of metal is from recently sold for &pound;20 million, making it the second most expensive car ever.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the brand exclaimed: &quot;We had a piece of the very car that represented Aston Martin&rsquo;s finest achievement on a race track in their 100 year history.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Christopher Ward decided that a modified version of its sold-out C70 DBR1 Chronometer was the ideal model with which to honour the historic occasion.<\/p>\n<p>The brand has previously created a model in homage to the only ever Aston victory at Le Mans.<\/p>\n<p>Committed car enthusiast Johannes Jahnke prepared the historic metal to allow Christopher Ward to incorporate a medallion into the back plate of each of the 100 pieces of the special limited edition. The design of the medallion includes a perfect facsimile of the car&#8217;s number 5 and has been covered by a sapphire crystal for posterity.<\/p>\n<p>Only 100 of the timepieces have been created and each will retail at &pound;1,950.<\/p>\n<p>Christopher Ward said it expects all 100 pieces to be fully reserved when they are released for pre-order in a few weeks, for delivery in November.  <\/p>\n<p>The full specifications and more images will be released in a few weeks. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher Ward Watches is celebrating 100 years of iconic Aston Martin cars with the introduction of a modified version of the sold-out C70 DBR1 Chronometer. The watch brand was already committed to recognising the occasion when Christopher Bennett of TMBArtMetal revealed a piece of aluminium that formed part of the winning Aston Martin DBR1\/2 in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false},"categories":[2,1,3],"tags":[1446],"newspack_lstngs_evt":[],"newspack_lstngs_gen":[],"newspack_lstngs_mkt":[],"newspack_lstngs_plc":[],"acf":[],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"WATCHPRO","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4402"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4402"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_lstngs_evt","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_lstngs_evt?post=4402"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_lstngs_gen","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_lstngs_gen?post=4402"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_lstngs_mkt","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_lstngs_mkt?post=4402"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_lstngs_plc","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_lstngs_plc?post=4402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}