Thanks David,
i knew i had read that somewhere but could not remember where. So there are at least 15 F1 driver inscribed 1158's out there. Surely between us we can can locate some photo's of these inscribed watches.
Cheers - Darren
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: Hi Darren,

: No photos from me, but this is what Jack Heuer had to say about the
: engraving of names:

: http://www.calibre11.com/interview-jack-heuer/

: Yes, this of course is the one that I gave all of the Formula 1
: drivers and it was engraved with the name on the back and the
: blood type- not sure if they all have the blood group, but some
: had.

: One of the reasons that we put the name in the back was so that
: they wouldn’t re-sell it, because these drivers would change
: team- they didn’t stay very long with their team- let’s say
: they were two years with Ferrari and then he [Enzo Ferrari]
: threw them out and then another guy came, so over the nine years
: that we were with Ferrari we had 15 different Ferrari drivers
: and they all had the chronograph and interestingly enough it
: worked. Niki Lauda remembers his watch- it was stolen from
: somewhere in his garden, in his house.

: When we relaunched the Carrera in 1996, some of the Formula 1
: drivers came and they would all come with their gold
: chronographs to show me, so there is a lot of emotion to that.

: One thing that I’ll never forget is that 5-6 years ago it was the
: Grand Prix of Monaco and Gilles Villeneuve’s son, Jacques, he
: had this big boat and he had his mother on the boat, and so he
: gave a little reception on the boat and we had to go up these
: stairs to get to the top deck where we had the reception and at
: the top of the stairs was his mother who received guests. When I
: was introduced to her, she said “You know that I still have
: the watch that you gave to my husband” and so you nearly cry,
: it’s so emotional to think that she cherishes this gold watch,
: so these are some of the memories…this is one of my favourite
: watches.