A Race Car Revealed Inside a Watch Factory
Lamborghini Squadra Corse pulled the covers off the Huracán Super Trofeo Evo Collector 2019 not at a circuit, not at a motor show, but inside the Roger Dubuis Manufacture in Geneva. The setting told you everything about the car’s intended audience before a single spec was quoted. Surrounded by watchmakers’ benches and display cases of six-figure complications, a matte black, gold-traced racing Huracán sat like the most expensive exhibit in the room.
The collaboration between Squadra Corse and Roger Dubuis dates to 2017, and by March 2019 the partnership had matured enough to produce something genuinely unusual: a track-only race car whose entire livery was conceived as a physical translation of a watch movement. Lamborghini says the black and gold aesthetic was penned by Centro Stile, but the brief came directly from the architecture of the Excalibur Huracán Performante timepiece. The result looks less like a conventional sponsor livery and more like a diagram of mechanical precision rendered in carbon fiber and metallic paint.
That choice of venue was a deliberate signal. The Super Trofeo one-make series already occupies a peculiar space in motorsport, attracting gentleman drivers and collectors who care as much about the paddock hospitality as the lap delta. Staging the Collector edition’s debut in a Swiss watchmaking atelier acknowledged that reality without apology, and it established the car’s central identity: not just a racing tool, but a luxury object whose design language flows between two worlds of mechanical obsession.
Visual Mechanics: Mapping the Excalibur Movement onto Carbon Fiber
Most brand collaborations in the supercar world amount to a logo swap and a matching colorway. The Collector 2019 goes further, and the details reward close inspection. Gold accents trace the front bumper, hood, sides, diffuser, and rear fin, their placement following the car’s aerodynamic pressure lines rather than arbitrary decoration. Lamborghini positioned them to emphasize the Dallara co-developed aero surfaces, turning each functional element into a visual accent.
The roof is where the collaboration becomes genuinely interesting. Graphics depict the internal movement of the Excalibur Huracán Performante watch, complete with an “X” motif that mirrors the X-Frame strut bar protecting the car’s V10 engine bay. That X-Frame is one of the Huracán platform’s most recognizable structural features, visible on the road-legal Performante and carried over into the Super Trofeo race car. Roger Dubuis adopted the same geometry for the movement bridge of the Excalibur, and the Collector 2019’s roof graphic closes the loop: a car wearing the skeleton of a watch that was itself inspired by the skeleton of the car.
Smaller correspondences reinforce the theme. The watch’s case back features a 360-degree oscillating rotor shaped like the Speedline center-lock wheel rims visible on the car. The crown of the timepiece mimics the single center-lock nut used to secure those wheels during pit stops. These are not cosmetic coincidences. They represent the rare brand partnership where the design language actually runs in both directions rather than being pasted on as an afterthought.
The accompanying Roger Dubuis timepiece is restricted to just 88 specimens, a number that underscores the exclusivity Squadra Corse builds around these annual Collector editions. Lamborghini did not publicly confirm whether the car’s production run matches that figure, an omission worth noting for anyone tracking these editions as future collectibles.
The Lamborghini Huracán Super Trofeo EVO Collector 2019 features a striking matte black and gold finish.
The Collector Designation: Market Value and Auction Results
Squadra Corse releases a “Collector” edition of the Super Trofeo car annually, each with a unique livery tied to a thematic partner or milestone. The strategy creates a rolling catalogue of limited variants that appreciate differently from standard race cars, partly because many never accumulate significant track mileage. Buyers acquire them as display pieces, paddock trophies, or entry tickets to Lamborghini’s VIP motorsport hospitality ecosystem.
Recent market data confirms the approach works. A pristine 2020-model-year example of this specific Collector 2019 edition, showing just 84 miles on its odometer, sold for $205,000 on Bring a Trailer in late 2025. Autoblog covered the listing, noting the car’s rarity and the appeal of its naturally aspirated V10 to collectors watching Lamborghini’s transition to hybrid powertrains.
That result is instructive. The Huracán Super Trofeo Evo carries no road registration, no climate control, and no sound deadening. Its value at auction rests almost entirely on scarcity, visual identity, and the emotional weight of being one of the last naturally aspirated V10 race cars Squadra Corse will produce. The Collector 2019’s black-and-gold Roger Dubuis livery adds a layer of cross-collectible appeal that a standard white or green Super Trofeo simply cannot match. Buyers who spec watches and cars from the same collaboration tend to treat the pair as a single collection asset.
Lamborghini did not disclose the original purchase price of the Collector 2019 when new. What the auction result does confirm is that well-preserved, low-mileage examples command a premium over comparable standard-livery Super Trofeo Evos, and the trajectory favors patience.
Beyond the Livery: 630 CV and the Dallara Connection
Strip away the gold accents and the horological narrative and the Collector 2019 remains a formidable piece of racing machinery. Its 630 CV (621 hp) 5.2-liter naturally aspirated V10 sits behind the driver, breathing through a race-calibrated intake and exhaling through a system tuned for the kind of unfiltered shriek that Super Trofeo spectators describe in visceral terms. Power reaches the rear wheels through an X-Trac six-speed sequential gearbox, a unit favored across multiple GT and single-make racing categories for its durability under punishment from amateur and professional drivers alike.
The aerodynamic package, co-developed with Dallara, represents one of the most sophisticated bodywork solutions in any one-make racing series. The Evo designation brought a redesigned front splitter, larger rear diffuser, and an adjustable rear wing calibrated to provide consistent downforce across a wide speed range. Öhlins supplies the adjustable coilover dampers, Brembo provides the braking hardware, and Pirelli P Zero slicks in 305-section fronts and 315-section rears complete the contact patch.
Lamborghini’s commitment to natural aspiration in the Super Trofeo gave its cars a throttle response and exhaust character that turbocharged rivals in the same era could not replicate, a distinction that became a selling point for drivers and spectators alike. The Collector 2019 arrived at the tail end of a period when that naturally aspirated advantage still defined Lamborghini’s motorsport identity, which is precisely why the car’s mechanical substance matters as much as its livery to anyone evaluating it as a collectible.
The Super Trofeo Legacy: From the Evo to the Temerario Era
Lamborghini established the Super Trofeo one-make series in 2009, and the Huracán platform served as its backbone from 2015 onward. The Evo update in 2018 sharpened the car’s aerodynamics and broadened its setup window, making it accessible to a wider range of driver skill levels while remaining competitive enough for professional-tier racing. The Collector editions became annual punctuation marks in that timeline, each one reinforcing the series’ dual identity as both a competitive racing ladder and a luxury collector ecosystem.
The Collector 2019 sits at a pivotal moment in that history. Squadra Corse would later release the Evo2 and eventually the track-only Essenza SCV12, but the 2019 Roger Dubuis collaboration captured something specific: the confidence of a brand that understood its customer base well enough to debut a race car in a watch factory and know the audience would follow.
Looking forward, the Super Trofeo series will transition to the Temerario platform, bringing a twin-turbocharged V8 hybrid powertrain to the grid. That shift makes every naturally aspirated V10 Collector edition a de facto farewell to an era. The Huracán STJ, limited to just ten units and revealed in 2024, served as the road-legal bookend. For track-focused collectors, though, the Collector 2019 and its siblings represent the purest expression of the V10 racing philosophy: no turbochargers, no hybrid assistance, no road-legal compromises.
Anyone considering one of these cars as a long-term collection piece should note that Squadra Corse’s annual Collector strategy means production numbers for each edition tend to be small, but the exact figure for the 2019 car remains unconfirmed. The 88-unit limitation applies to the Roger Dubuis watch, not necessarily to the car itself. That ambiguity is worth clarifying with Lamborghini directly before assuming extreme scarcity.
The broader pattern, however, is unmistakable. Lamborghini’s willingness to position the Super Trofeo platform as a luxury object, not merely a racing tool, created a collector category that competitors in the one-make space still struggle to match. The Collector 2019, with its Geneva debut, its watchmaking DNA rendered in carbon fiber, and its six-figure auction results years after launch, stands as the clearest proof that the strategy works.
