Boultbee Brooks and Jones landed just in time for Christmas
The most famous single-seat fighter in the history of aviation and the Pilot's Watch no less famous They return from their longest flight. The pilots Steve Boultbee Brooks and Matt Jones have made aviation history after completing the first round-the-world flight in a Spitfire.
Boultbee Brooks and Jones have arrived just in time for Christmas landing at Goodwood motorway , in West Sussex County, exactly four months after setting out on his epic expedition from this very spot.
It is on this same racetrack that the best British racing and motorcycling drivers of the 1950s and 1960s clashed and where, since 1998, the Goodwood Revival has been held.
On his way around the world, the record flight covered a total of nearly 43,000 kilometers and visited more than 20 countries.
After leaving Goodwood in August, **the 76-year-old restored plane traveled across the icy expanse of Greenland** and skidded over New York before crossing the United States to reach Las Vegas and the California sun.
Drivers Steve Boultbee Brooks and Matt Jones
From there, the Spitfire **flew north to Canada and Alaska**, before heading west to Russia. In Japan, the team had to dodge a typhoon before slowly traversing Asia, from Myanmar to India.
After a short break in Abu Dhabi, the pilots returned to Europe, visiting Italy and the Netherlands, before returning to the UK.
A hangar full of supporters and congratulatory banners received the crew of the Spitfire to celebrate his feat.
As they traveled through the different time zones, Boultbee Brooks and Jones used the Spitfire Edition of the Pilot Watch Timezoner The Longest Flight (Ref. IW395501) , the official watch of the expedition with whose rotating bezel the time corresponding to each country can be adjusted.
4 months (123 days exactly), 43,000 kilometers and more than 20 countries
RIDING TOGETHER SINCE 2003
the spitfire, designed by RJ Mitchell in the 1930s , is one of the most famous combat aircraft in history; a real gem that has been brought back to life to travel the world for four months on its longest flight.
The relationship that unites IWC Schaffhausen with this myth of aviation was sealed in 2003 with one of the most famous and coveted watch collections in the world.
March 6, 1936 a single-seat fighter aircraft used by the Royal Air Force (RAF) and some of the Allied countries during World War II he glided for the first time, defiantly, for a contending sky.
By name spit fire , continued to be used until the 1950s, both as a front-line fighter and in secondary roles. It was produced in greater numbers than any other British aircraft and was the only Allied fighter in continuous production before, during and after World War II.
About 600 kilometers from there, in German Switzerland, that same year IWC Schaffhausen created one of the six families of watches that today make up its DNA: the Pilot's Watch, which will change the aesthetic concept of watches for many years and that will become a world reference.
It is in 2003 when the history of these two flight instruments comes together, fueling the legend of the Spitfire collection of Pilot's Watches to such an extent that its successful trajectory continues with an optimized design and manufacturing calibers, until today, when the longest journey of both instruments has concluded.
IWC's longest flight