The new museum dedicated to Tazio Nuvolari opens today in Mantua, in the former Carmelino church in Via Giulio Romano; the occasion is the hundred and twentieth anniversary of the great champion's birth, which falls on this very day. Announcing the opening is Eberhard & Co, which has been linked to Nuvolari for years thanks to a special collection dedicated to him and its partnership with one of the most important events in the world of historic car racing, the Gran Premio Nuvolari. The Swiss Maison pays tribute to this important anniversary by enriching its collection with a new model, the Tazio Nuvolari Data, an automatic mechanical chronograph with a sporty look and a steel case measuring 43 millimetres in diameter. The black dial with circular-grained work features two counters at 12 and 6 o'clock for the minutes and hours respectively. On the latter stands out the date, the distinctive element of this novelty from Eberhard & Co: it is in fact the first model in the Tazio Nuvolari collection to have a date display. The red details on the dial make the timepiece even more racy and modern: the outline of the Arabic numerals, the central seconds hand, the small counter hands, the pilot's signature and his initials "TN" enclosed in the white carapace. On the left side of the dial is a stylised reproduction of the legendary tortoise given to him by Gabriele d'Annunzio with the dedication: "To the fastest man in the world, the slowest animal"; the strap clasp is also personalised with the tortoise, the pilot's good luck charm. Nuvolari's signature reproduced on the case back could not be missing.
