Our new Aston Martin DBR1/2 Essence of Form Cufflinks are one of the most spectacular automotive cufflinks ever created, possessing a true physical DNA connection to DBR1/2, the most famous and valuable Aston Martin in the world. The miniature Essence of Form sculptures, which depict the iconic 1950's DBR1 sports racing car, are crafted using actual original redundant aluminium body panel pieces from DBR1/2 as 'donor' metal.
DBR1/2 is the very car in which Carroll Shelby, in partnership with Roy Salvadori, secured victory at Le Mans in 1959, the only time Aston Martin have won this iconic challenge of human and mechanical endurance. But importantly it is also the car in which Sir Stirling Moss contributed so significantly to winning both the 1958 and 1959 RAC Tourist Trophies at Goodwood and thereby helped Aston Martin clinch the World Sports Car Championship for 1959.
During the car's restoration by noted engineer Tim Samways in the early 1990s a small quantity of damaged or age distressed period aluminium body panels were removed from DBR1/2 and it is specifically using sections of this ex-DBR1/2 panelling that our unique cufflinks are crafted. The term "period" is used because with the passage of time it’s now impossible to state categorically that these components were fitted to DBR1/2 during its victories at Le Mans and Goodwood etc; but they are old panels, displaying the correct and expected patina of age, appropriate to likely be original and period late 1950s.
Two editions of these very exclusive DBR1/2 cufflinks are to be issued featuring different sculpted depictions of the car. The first edition portrays the car in the Le Mans guise with squared off wheel arches and high tonneau, the specification in which it claimed victory in the 1959 race. These links will be accompanied by certificates signed personally by Carroll Shelby. The second edition depicts DBR1/2 in its more familiar form with open wheel arches - the form in which it won the Tourist Trophies at Goodwood, and these links will be accompanied by certificates of authenticity signed personally by Sir Stirling Moss. Both editions are limited to just fifty pairs.
