VinnieD
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Francorchamps is both
- a small city next to Spa, where you can find one of the nicest race tracks.
- the Ecurie Francorchamps is the racing team of Jacques Swaters, created in 1952. He became the Ferrari importer for Belgium (one of the first ones worldwide, and a good friend of Enzo's). A racer himself, you can think of him as a Belgian Luigi Chinetti. His cars were yellow - giallo fly* probably.
This import operations lives on as the Garage Francorchamps to this day. He has put together a great collection of Ferrari memorabilia
As for the watch, is it a ref. 1999? I had it with a white dial. Transparent caseback and in-house modular chrono (not sure about the specifics). Nice classical layout, but with a date!
*extra brownie points for the purist who knows what "fly" stands for!
Came across this one today.
Just wondering if anyone can shed some light on it personally not seen this watch before but I’m no GP expert ; ) Apologies for the poor photo. ...
Don’t know anything about the watch except I like it.
I think Francorchamps is a racing circuit in Belgium. I expect the GP experts will have more information for you. Regards Kev.
amazing track
You can feel yourself very much alive in Kemmel and in the Raidillon of course! Great hilly course
Francorchamps is both
- a small city next to Spa, where you can find one of the nicest race tracks. - the Ecurie Francorchamps is the racing team of Jacques Swaters, created in 1952. He became the Ferrari importer for Belgium (one of the first ones worldwide, and a good friend...
Could stand for : Ferrari Light Yellow but this is not the case... I looked it up and found that It probably refers to a colour named by an Italian engineering company, but
The strange thing is that this colour Giallo Fly is also associated to Pininfarina. Nice Car ;-)
FLY or Ferrari Light Yellow is not official
The correct name for the Ferrari standard yellow is "Giallo Modena."
I love all those car-specific colours
Primrose yellow Irish green Oro chiaro So poetic!
From the official Ferrari Magazine
Here part of the legend Il giallo, al pari del rosso, è un colore che è nel DNA del marchio A questo colore, nelle sue varie tonalità, sono legate molte vicende della storia di questa azienda. È il caso di Fiamma Breschi, vedova del pilota Luigi Musso e a...
I am vouching for the Fly engineering company that still exists
Ferrari Light Yellow - I am not sure this is the right origin Only Enzo knows! Thanks for your contributions
They did a ‘Fiat Cars’ Ltd edition.
Can’t recall the reference, and just tried to find the google pic without any joy, but that watch is quite stunning.
Fantastic style. A watch you can have fun with for sure.
I like that mixture of complexity and sportiness.
GP4946
its a 4946 ecurie francorchamps limited edition. They produced around 100 of them, in this colour dial, and the other limited edition they made was the Villa Margarita one. the normal 4946 i used to have it , looking for this rare watch for a long time, n...