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| Founded in the year 1884, Dunhill Motorities was in full swing by 1906. Alfred Dunhill had developed the company from his father's saddlery, and the modern man
of the world could find everything here to warm the heart of any automobile enthusiast, making transportation on four wheels an absolute joy: from newly developed signal horns and goggles to clothing providing protection against the elements, all bearing the brand name of Dunhill, naturally. After all, the street mongrels of the
time didn't show any respect for the strange new vehicles, the streets themselves were unsurfaced and accordingly dusty, and the new means of transportation did not for the most part feature a sensible chassis.
In this year, Alfred Dunhill offered his customers a watch for the first time - as the dernier ai, so to speak - which was, of course, tailored to the needs of the motor car enthusiast. It contained a stopwatch with whose help it was possible to time laps during increasingly popular automobile races.
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Dunhill, who had in the meantime established himself as a tobacco specialist in the fashionable St. James quarter, subsequently built his watches into artistically decorated cigarette lighters, ashtrays, pipe accessories, and even into belt buckles and brooches. In line with the current trend, his first wristwatches were introduced in the middle of the 1930s, among which was the Faceted Watch.
The classic Dunhill watch models are again at the forefront of today's line, and for the first time Dunhill has ventured out with aboveaverage creations sporting interesting mechanical movements. The Facet Dakar, for example, is outfitted with a specially prepared hand-wound movement by Jaquet with the subsidiary second dial at an unusual position (8 o'clock), and on the stylized map of the world of an unusually constructed GMT watch without a minute hand, the overdimensionally depicted British Isles make up the center of the world.
The brand, at home within the Richemont group (as are Cartier, Jaeger-LeCoultre, Vacheron Constantin, and others), is trodding a more individual path in terms of distribution as well. The Dunhill Flagship Store was recently opened in London's noble Old Bond Street, and, as during Motorities times, offers its discriminating clientele everything their hearts desire - provided it bears the name of Dunhill.
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Dunhill
450 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10022
Tel: 1-800-541-0738
Fax: 212-750-8841
www.dunhill.com
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