{"id":29694,"date":"2022-08-20T12:03:40","date_gmt":"2022-08-20T16:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=29694"},"modified":"2022-08-20T12:03:40","modified_gmt":"2022-08-20T16:03:40","slug":"atelier-jalaper-watches-made-from-aston-martin-db5-hood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=29694","title":{"rendered":"Aston Martin DB5 hood used to make Atelier Jalaper watches | Autoblog"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are more than a few famous movie cars, like Eleanor, Doc’s DMC-12, the Bandit’s Trans-Am, and Bullitt’s Mustang<\/a>, for instance. There are hardly any movie cars that are famous, beautiful, and lustworthy, and that 60 years later are still having a moment. Consider that Aston Martin<\/a> produced the DB5 from 1963 to 1965, sending only a touch more than 1,020 units into the world, but it seems like every six months we get a new take on either the car itself or something having to do with the car. Atelier Jalaper<\/a> is the latest to make an entry in the latter category. Two gents got the idea to produce a watch using something from a historic car. After putting the Jaguar<\/a> E-Type, AC Cobra, Ferrari<\/a> F40, and Aston Martin DB5 donor cars up for vote on Instagram, the people chose Bond, and the results are the AJ-001 and AJ-002 watches.<\/p>\n

The journey started with a successful Kickstarter campaign, which was the easy part. With money in hand, it took the two men behind the company a year to find an authentic hood from an original DB5. To ensure provenance, Atelier Jalaper had Aston Martin Works verify the hood, a two-hour process that produced a 20-page report on the Silver Birch unit.<\/p>\n

The men then visited Switzerland to find the engineers and watch maker who could turn the metal into a timepiece. The engineering involved tasks like flattening the hood and removing the nine layers of paint while leaving the metalworking marks and patina of the raw steel, and a 58-minute-long process of lasering texture into the dial. The actual watch bits include a Miyota automatic movement visible though the clear back, numerals that resemble the odometer figures in the DB5, and a choice of two complications. The AJ-001 features the date, the AJ-002 features the day and date. Both are available in a polished steel case or a matte black PVD case. The series is limited to 600 units, each serial engraved into a button on the left side, and customers can choose a serial number if it hasn’t been taken already.<\/p>\n

Prices start at \u20ac800 ($814 U.S.) for the AJ-001 in stainless steel and go to \u20ac1,150 ($1,170 U.S.) for the AJ-002 in black PVD.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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