300SL - Key Persons
John Surtees' career in international motorsport is truly unique - he is the only person to have achieved World Championships Titles on two and four wheels. This edition of mechanical timepieces was created in close collaboration with John Surtees and expresses the spirit of his extraordinary career.
John Surtees is truly unique in motorsport. Riding for the celebrated MV Agusta team, he won seven World Championships between 1956 and 1960. Then - with nothing left to prove - he made the transition from two wheels to four, winning the Formula One World Championship with Ferrari in 1964.
To this day his feat of winning World Championships on two and four wheels remains unparalleled. During his remarkable racing career he won 290 of the 621 races he entered and claimed a further 103 podium finishes, recording 48 fastest laps and 100 record laps along the way.