John Norman Surtees CBE (February 11, 1934 – March 10, 2017) was an English Grand Prix motorcycle racer and Formula One driver. He remains the only person to have won premier class world championships on both two and four wheels, having won the F.I.M. 500cc Road Racing World Championship Grand Prix title in 1956, 1958, …
Rotary Watches Ltd was founded in 1895 by Moise Dreyfuss in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland. Family members began exporting watches to Britain in the 1920s, which eventually became Rotary’s most successful market. By 1940, Rotary was the official watch supplier for the British Army and eventually became a household name in the UK. Today, Rotary is …
TAG Heuer was originally founded in 1860 as Uhrenmanufaktur Heuer AG (Heuer Watchmaking Inc.) by Edouard Heuer in St-Imier, Switzerland. Building off a foundation of early innovations in dashboard instruments and chronographs, TAG Heuer is now synonymous with motorsports and enjoy a mainstream brand recognition matched by vanishingly few watch companies. In 1999 the Swiss …