Rolls-Royce hopes to make a splash with Bespoke Waterspeed Collection

Just 35 specially designed Phantom Drophead Coupés will be built to celebrate Rolls-Royce's role in breaking the world waterspeed record 77 years ago.

On September 2, 1937 Sir Malcom Campbell pushed his Rolls-Royce-powered Bluebird K3 hydroplane boat to a hardly believable 208 km/h across Lake Maggiore on the Italian-Swiss border and, in doing so, brought the world waterspeed record back to the U.K. from the U.S. after a five-year absence.

In order to pay homage to this momentous achievement and, of course, to demonstrate to potential clients the sheer depth of bespoking possible when ordering a Rolls-Royce, the company is building 35 very special convertibles.