Luxury cars and watches make for the ultimate partnership. Both are aesthetically fascinating, the beauty of the surface yielding to precision engineering, complex pathways and gleaming steel. That said, not all collaborations are created equal –some can feel forced. This one is different. The pairing of Bremont and Jaguar has always felt right: the best of British teaming up with, well, the best of British. Bremont has worked with Jaguar for 14 years supplying clocks for the Queen’s personal fleet of cars, creating concept car clocks together, as well as a core collection of designs, such as the E-Type, MKI and D-Type, which all take inspiration from the cars themselves with Dunlop tyre tread crowns and steering wheel-inspired rotors. And now Bremont is adding the C-Type, one of the world’s most desirable cars, to the list.

In 1948, Jaguar launched the first post-war sports car, the XK120. By 1951, it had become the Jaguar C, with the C standing for Competition– a car renowned for its elegance and sophistication. It also had the racing prowess to match its sensational looks. In both 1951 and 1953 it won the 24 Hours of Le Mans race, creating new lap records and even becoming the first-ever car to use disc brake technology.

It is this car that the new Bremont Jaguar C-Type celebrates. Its mix of beauty and speed was down to Malcolm Sawyer, an aircraft engineer during WWII, who moved into automotive design at Jaguarand was responsible for the D-Type, E-Type, and the XJ13 racing prototype. Sawyer believed cars should work visually and aerodynamically; something he achieved using a slide rule and seven-figure log tables to work out formulae for drawing the bodywork’s beautiful curves – which have now inspired Bremont’s case design. An anodised aluminium bezel references the C-Type’s original aluminium bodywork, while Jaguar’s heritage logo is embossed on the refined layered sunburst dial, which is complemented by the sleek black gloss numerals and crisp white sub dials. A racy red accent on the nine-hour sub dial takes its cue from the original Smiths gauges – another link to a British company and a nod to Smiths’ place in British horological history; the red-tipped chronograph hand is a detail taken from the C-Type’s tachymeter.

The 43mm case uses Bremont’s Trip-Tick case construction, making it exceptionally robust, and the winding crown is engraved with the original Jaguar Dunlop tyre tread; a detail unique to the Bremont Jaguar designs. The “Growler” hood badge adorns the closed stainless-steel caseback and the tan leather racing strap is the final vintage automotive flourish. It is a design that blends the muscular energy of the C-Type with the weekend sportiness you want from a chronograph. It is a fitting addition to Bremont’s collection of Jaguar-inspired timepieces and proves when a car and watch brand are in synergy, creating great timepieces is as easy as C, D, E.

£5,695 (on a tan leather racingstrap); bremont.com