On September 12th 2009, in Porto Cervo, Ben Ainslie, CORUM’s Ambassador, achieved a new victory by winning the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup on board of the Alfa Romeo III boat. It is alongside Neville Crichton in Porto Cervo, Sardinia, that Ben won the first place in the Mini Maxi Racing category. After having set a new record at the Transpacific Yacht Race in July, the Alfa Romeo team once again achieved a great performance by winning the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup in the Mini Maxi Racing category.

The Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup, organized by the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda, in conjunction with the International Maxi Association, started on Monday, September 7th and ended on Saturday, September 12th. The races took place in Porto Cervo, Sardinia, where it saw 42 maxis enrolled and between 5 to 7 races held for each of the various divisions over the course of the week.

Eight Maxi Yachts were competing for the Mini Maxi Racing title. In the duel, opposing owners/helmsmen Neville Crichton on the Alfa Romeo III (10 points), won the competition ahead of Hap Fauth on Bella Mente (11 points), and Peter Ogden on Jethou (14 points).

Ben Ainslie won three out of the seven races of the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup together with the Alfa Romeo team and always placed in the top four. The team once again proved its talent as well as its great team spirit, led by Neville Crichton together with Ben Ainslie as tactician.

Neville Crichton is both renowned and respected for his exceptional performances in business and sport, with a series of spectacular achievements in both arenas. He has successfully competed in a number of major international races including the Admiral's Cup series in England, and quickly earned a reputation as one of the world's foremost yachtsmen. By winning the Admirals’ Cup, Neville Crichton has indirectly linked his destiny to Corum’s history.

Ben’s next stage will be the Argo Group Gold Cup in Hamilton, Bermuda, as the penultimate event on the World Match Racing Tour.

The Admiral’s Cup Tides 48 worn by Ben Ainslie

As one of the major complications mastered by CORUM Watches, the exclusive Admiral’s Cup Tides 48 movement puts the brand right up amongst the finest names in the watch making world. For coastal regions with a twice-daily lunar cycle (in which the sea rises and falls every 12 hours and 25 minutes on average), the Admiral’s Cup Tides 48 provides all the key information on tides: the lunar cycles and the strength of the tide, an estimation of water levels, the strength of the currents, and the time of the tides.

The three different mechanisms composing the tides movement called for around three years of development in cooperation with the Geneva Astronomical Observatory and the SHOM in Brest.

The counter at 12 o’clock indicates the various states of the moon, thereby reproducing its position in relation to the earth and the sun and defining the strengths of the tides that are expressed by coefficients.

The counter at 6 o’clock indicates the time of low and high tides and indication of the time of the day in a 24 hour period.

The rising and falling tide indications are displayed at 9 o’clock, as well as the intensity of the current.