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33 Pages·2016·14.53 MB·English

Café Racer
LIFE, THE SAYING GOES, is a journey, not a
destination. Along the way, you discover your passions
— which in turn beget inspiration, the wellspring of
your life’s accomplishments.
What happens, though, when you take a
lifetime’s worth of passions and attempt to alchemize
them into a single, focused inspiration? Can the
entirety of a life be contained within one idea? Indeed
it can — if the idea (and the life) are worthy.
Occupying that rarefied spot in the firmament
is the CT Scuderia Café Racer, an unparalleled
collection of unique timepieces that blend the
meticulous mechanics of Swiss construction and
movements with inspiration imbued by classic café-
racer culture — given its finishing élan through bold
Italian styling.
Enrico Margaritelli’s life journey has echoed
that of his forebears — as a third-generation
watchmaker, he has naturally become a sophisticated
designer of fine timepieces. Befitting a man of passion, — was a natural inspiration for his next venture.
however, his path has not been linear. Before assuming The racer’s Spartan aesthetic and embrace of
the mantle of the family trade, he was a professional aggressive styling makes him (and his bike)
motorbike racer who was intoxicated by the heady unique among men. Shouldn’t his timepiece be
allure of café-racer society: Sometimes the racetrack the same?
has a defined start and finish; other times the finish
line is but a notion, and you keep going until you find The Italian essence of café-racer style
the perfect disembarkation point. (A tidy metaphor for embodies this to perfection — the jacket (dress
a well-lived life, that.) Yet even after Margaritelli left or leather), shoes (never boots, thank you) and
behind the gears and timing devices of one world for sunglasses cohering into a singular personal,
those of another, his first passion — motorcycles — unique, style, man atop machine, ready for the
had left its imprint on the very fiber of his being. next curve in the road, the next café, the next
stage of the long journey.
The pleasure of discovery as the journey
continues is a driving force in Margaritelli’s life. Thus And so the inspiration takes form: the life
café racing — the world’s most influential motorcycle all dream of but few lead. Will you be bold enough
movement, in which man and machine are on proud to seize it? Then the CT Scuderia Café Racer is
public, symbiotic display, individualism personified the watch for you.
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C O R S A
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S A T U R N O
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F I B R A D I C A R B O N I O
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