BBC Top Gear Magazine

SNAP OR SWEEP?

In the watch supplement that comes with this issue, we look at cars and watches with a history so intertwined you really can’t imagine one without the other. Watches have been around longer, of course, but they are the junior partner.

Watches often imitate cars. Some even contain bits of metal shaved from old cars. There’s one on the opposite page

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