www.VintageBentleys.org N E W S L E T T E R September 2016
 
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First International Bentley 8 Litre Rally: 18-25 June, 2016
 
On day 5 we are doing something quintessentially Swiss – visiting a 'Watch Makers' in the Chaux-de-Fonds. I could say a 'watch factory' but that would do Gruebel-Forsey a disservice. The building itself is art – like a shard of glass jutting out of the ground. Only 100 watches are made each year and, as our guide starts to talk through how a Quadruple Tourbillon works, I am both fascinated and totally lost. An obsessive approach to detail and craftsmanship has given Greubel Forsey a reputation. Men who like cars tend to like watches and the Bentley Boys lust after the finished product, passing them around like treasure. We then drive to La Locle to the watch museum. A small rural village housing some horological treasures.
 

Bentley line-up
 

Greubel Forsey Watches
The pipers playing beautiful haunting melodies as the sun begins to set. – Alphorns
 

If the day is about man conquering time, the evening is about the beauty of nature. We drive back through idyllic countryside to a small restaurant on the edge of the canyon at Creux Du Van. Franco has organised something very special for us – we follow two pipers across a field where just beyond its perimeter wall is a sheer drop of hundreds of feet. The pipers stand on the rocks, their long pipes resting inches from the edge of the precipice, and play beautiful haunting melodies as the sun begins to set.
 
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