{"id":69751,"date":"2021-09-17T09:19:43","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T08:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/?p=69751"},"modified":"2021-10-15T10:13:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-15T09:13:00","slug":"watchpro-salon-2021-allemano-brings-italian-automotive-flair-to-november-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/watchpro-salon-2021-allemano-brings-italian-automotive-flair-to-november-show\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCHPRO SALON 2021: Allemano brings Italian automotive flair to November show"},"content":{"rendered":"
If you are unacquainted with the field of highly accurate pressure gauges, thermometers and dynamometers, the history of Italy\u2019s Allemano Felice & Figli might have passed you by.<\/strong><\/p>\n That is about to change because the precision engineering business has turned its hand to horology and its first timepieces are being brought to the UK by a new distributor, Chrono Emotions, which will be presenting the brand at WATCHPRO SALON from November 12 to 13 at The Londoner Hotel on Leicester Square.<\/p>\n Click here for\u00a0<\/a>WATCHPRO Salon<\/a>\u00a0ticket information.<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Allemano\u2019s story began in 1856 when its founder Giuseppe Allemano launched into the business of steam powered road rollers. The company moved into producing tools for measuring and regulating temperature and pressure tools at the turn of the century.<\/p>\n It was a significant supplier to the Italian military during the First World War as well as making instruments for the earliest Italian automobiles.<\/p>\n One of those instruments was a pressure gauge for a 1919 Fiat 501 Torpedo, the first serially-produced car for the fledgling Italian manufacturer.<\/p>\n This gauge\u2019s design is the template for Allemano\u2019s first timepieces, which launched in 2019 and are being distributed by Chrono Emotions.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Allemano is still a large engineering and precision measurement business, and its technology is used in fields as diverse as aviation, shipping, oil and gas and deep sea diving.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Chrono Emtions co-founders Mike Cantelo and Tim Rapley believe this rich history combined with visually interesting timepieces based on the Fiat 501 Torpedo pressure gauge design will be a winner with independent jewellers looking for a new story to tell in the affordable luxury timepiece space.<\/p>\n Allemano makes three models, all with an early 20th century retro styling and all using decorated Swiss-made automatic Sellita or ETA movements in bold 44mm steel cases and all on chunky Italian leather straps.<\/p>\n Each range has the option of cases having a brushed, polished or sandblasted finish.<\/p>\n