After a very long leave of thirty-six years, the most famous of American fighter pilots is back.
Maverick hasn't aged a bit… just like his watch: an all-black Porsche Design chronograph, released exactly fifty years ago.
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Top Gun
is one of those films that have marked one, or even two generations of viewers,
deciphers Jean-Philippe Tarot, creator of the watchmaking site Montres de Luxe, and hunter of timepieces on the big screen
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Watch enthusiasts then noticed that Tom Cruise was wearing a Porsche Design by Orfina chrono in black PVD.
This is the very first watch launched by the brand in 1972, designed by Ferdinand Porsche himself, the father of the mythical 911!
A piece that the film would make known to the whole world.
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But why her?
“It was on the wrist of all the American pilots who were in the FRG in the 1970s,
explains Thierry Serna of the watch store Mostra Store (Aix-en-Provence), specialist in watches…
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