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He's Wearing a Rare One
In Response To: Gilles Villeneuve's Autavia ()

Well spotted!! I don't believe that we have seen this one before.

And it's a rare one, indeed . . . Autavia Reference 73663, three-register, manual wind, black-on-black with the orange "stripes" on the minute recorder. Seems that Gilles has opted for the tachymeter bezel (T) rather than the minutes / hours (MH) version . . . as we would expect of a racer!!

Thanks for spotting / posting this one.

Jeff

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: I was just looking through the latest issue of MotorSport magazine
: and there's a big article on Gilles Villeneuve, with interviews
: with a lot of people who worked with him, raced against him and
: so on. One of the photos shows Villeneuve wearing an Autavia.
: Looks rather nice:

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