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REC TTT ESCAPE WATCH

£1468

Recwatches.com

This is an unusual piece to bring you! It’s a beautiful limited edition Swiss-made watch that is not only designed around the Triumph used in the Great Escape film, but also has actual parts of the original bike in it!

When Triumph collector Dick Shepard sympathetically restored the famous jumping TR6 twin (which in the film was meant to be a German Army BMW), he replaced the clutch plates and con rods among other parts and REC has used a piece of them inside each of the 393 watches.

Thanks to the skeletal look, you can not only see the part, but also the Swiss movement

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