As many customers would have liked a normally-coloured watch, a version with bead-blasted stainless steel was issued. It operated the then-new Valjoux 7750 movement, which is today still the most widespread mechanical movement for chronograph wristwatches.
#Ferdi porsche architekt drivers#
It was intended as accessory for Porsche drivers and sold by the Porsche dealers.
It was launched in 1973 and was different from other chronograph wristwatches, as its case and bracelet were made out of matte black chromed steel. was still working at the Porsche Style bureau. The first product Porsche Design created was a chronograph wristwatch made by Swiss watchmaker company Orfina. Porsche Design Group Īfter the family decided to change the company's legal form and to keep the family out of its management, Ferdinand Alexander founded his own industrial design company, Porsche Design, in Stuttgart, Germany, which was later moved to Zell am See, Austria, where the Porsche family owns an estate called Schüttgut.
liked the design of the 904 best, as there was no time for anyone to demand or initiate changes, so it is his most original draft. Thus, the development team was under extreme time pressure. The car was to be approved by racing homologation officers until a set date in order to attend the same year's racing season. Its body shell was made of Fiberglass-reinforced resin at the aircraft company Heinkel. He stated that the 904 was his favorite work for Porsche. Production began in 1964.įerdinand Alexander also shaped another important car, the Porsche 904.
#Ferdi porsche architekt code#
The original project code 901 was changed to 911 after intervention of Peugeot who had a trademark protection on three-number-combinations with "0" in the middle. They gave the actual shape to the 901 as it was presented at the 1963 Frankfurt Motor Show. Ferry set the main attributes concerning wheelbase, power figures and suspension and after Komenda still did not cooperate, he took F.A.'s drawings to the coachwork manufacturer Reutter across the street. Ferdinand Alexander's first drafts were well accepted, but Komenda made unapproved changes over the objections of Ferdinand and Ferry. Ferry Porsche wished the successor of his 356 should provide more space and comfort in the cabin, though he was also cited as saying, "Comfort is not what makes driving fun, it is more on the opposite." The trunk, especially, should have provided more space. When it came to the designworks of the coachwork for the company's most successful car so far, the Porsche 911, Ferdinand Alexander was heavily involved, as it was family tradition that every generation of the Porsche family took part in the genesis of a new car generation. In 1957 he started practical training at the body design department of the family-owned sports car company under design director Erwin Komenda. After a year he was dismissed by the examination board, because his talent was doubted. Education Īfter attending the Waldorf School in Stuttgart he began studying industrial design in Ulm, Germany. He never thought of himself as an artist or designer, but more as a technically talented craftsman in shaping. While his grandfather and father were both engineers, he was more involved in working out the appearance of a product. Ferdinand Alexander Porsche (11 December 1935 – 5 April 2012), nicknamed "Butzi", son of Ferry Porsche, grandson of Ferdinand Porsche, was a German designer whose best known product was the first Porsche 911.
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