It's Coming

As much as I am a huge watch fan, I also really dig the finest cars in the world. I think both products go hand and hand in terms of clients, brand philosophies and innovations within both industries. I am very lucky and privileged to have a great partnership with leading Steel Manufacturer Caparo. This Company was Founded in 1978 by Lord Swaraj Paul who was given the highest distinction by the Queen Of England In 1996 as a life peer, i.e. a member of the House of Lords, taking the title Baron Paul of Marylebone in the City of Westminster.


Over the years Caparo have specialized in steel manufacturing and general engineering products. Since his father handed over the company to him in 2002, Honorable Angad Paul has further turned the company into an innovation machine and has diversified Caparo's portfolio in Film Distribution, Automotive, Private Equity Investments, and Artificial Intelligence Technologies. He has made history by partnering up with the infamous Indian TATA Group in the manufacturing of the worlds most inexpensive car by producing the body for the TATA Nano. Angad, pursuing his passion for films, has been wildly successful as an executive producer with two of the biggest films in The UK and cult favorites around the world with the release of Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels in 1998 and The mega hit Snatch In 2002. These two films are basically amongst my top five fav films of all time, to the point the one liners from both films have become a part of my every day verbiage.

As an avid car collector and brilliant engineering brain, Angad wanted to build a car that was a formula 1 style car for the everyday road. He answered that when he developed what could possibly be the fastest, most ferocious and the most gripping driving experience ever tested with the release of The Caparo T1 in 2006. To push the extreme limits of engineering and styling Angad partnered up with design director Ben Scott-Geddes, and engineering director Graham Halstead, who were former engineers involved in the development of the McLaren F1. So what is behind this sexy beast? Well, brace yourselves car geeks! The T1 is a british racing machine which is 116-kilogram (260 lb), 32-valve, 3,496-cubic centimetre (3.5 L), all-aluminium, naturally-aspirated, Menard V8 engine with cylinder banks mounted at 90° and lubricated via a dry sump oil system. The design of the engine has gone through several designs, previously including a smaller 2.4-litre supercharged unit. The production design generates a maximum power of 575 horsepower (429 kW/583 PS) at 10,500 revolutions per minute and a maximum torque of 310 pound-feet (420 N·m) at 9,000 revolutions per minute, giving the car a power-to-weight ratio of 1,045 horsepower per tonne (779.3 kW/t). The engine is controlled via a fully tunable Pectel SQ6 engine control unit and the throttle is controlled via a throttle-by-wire system. The price tag, well lets just say it's a bargain because a car like this should be around two million dollars, at least, but Caparo has been really smart and out of their minds at setting the standard for such high quality for only half a million dollars.

Since Angad is involved in everything a man wants to have, what would be the next logical step? A watch, perhaps. Well, what fine watchmaker has the balls, drive ambition, and quality to make the Caparo T1 watch? I wonder who is up for the challenge to make a super watch to match this super car with only the coolest composites, design and flawless engineering in a limited capacity that would roar like the engine in the T1. Well, I don't know about you, but I have a gut feeling that It's coming, and when it does, so will you!

pic courtesy of caparo.com
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