The sapphire crystal caseback bears the watch's limited edition number and the inscription "Winner Le Mans 1970" together with "917-023" – the chassis number of the winning car.

The green used is a nod to the “Hippie” Porsche 917 that raced at Le Mans in 1970. Likewise, ... black for the number 5 car, white for number 6, and red for number 75.

A Street-Driven Le Mans Car Also Served As Inspiration . Another key source for inspiration was the "Count Rossi" Porsche 917. In 1975, the count managed to get his hands on a decommissioned 917 ...

Back in 1970, drivers Richard Attwood and Hans Herrmann drove the Porsche 917 to the carmaker’s first-ever win at the famous Le Mans endurance race. It was only the first of 19 other wins to ...

The 917 was a serious bit of kit, that was confirmed what with it being the first Porsche to win the Le Mans 24 Hours in 1970 - after Porsche had fixed the high-speed lift issues, of course.

Moving inward, the pink stripes represent the "Pink Pig" 917/20 that ran Le Mans in 1971 and returned as a GTE-Pro class winner in a tribute livery on the 2018 911 GT3 RSRs.

Steve McQueen may have been the headline actor of the motorsport cult classic film Le Mans, but we all know who the real star was. Or rather, what: the Porsche 917. More specifically, it was the ...

This Porsche 917 was the star car of Steve McQueen's "Le Mans," a film in which the actor portrayed a factory Porsche driver racing in the 1971 24 Hours of Le Mans.

The Classics at the Castle Porsche Festival is one place we all want to be for plenty of good reasons. One of those is this 917 Le Mans racer which gave the German automaker its first outright win ...