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This week marks the start of the great unveiling in Geneva of new timepieces for 2017. In addition to the Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie (SIHH) exhibition starting tomorrow, a host of top brands are also showcasing their newest creations in a variety of locations around the city. Jacob & Co., for instance, has selected this week for the debut of his newest Astronomia Flawless watch. Based on the well-known Astronomia Gravitational Triple Axis Tourbillon watch with sun, moon and Earth globes, the newest piece is fully updated with a sapphire case for transparent viewing from all sides of the complicated movement.
Provides revolutionary timepieces and jewelry for men and women who demand superb craftsmanship. How two 25-year-old college dropouts built a watch company that made $60 million this year Published Fri, Dec 2 2016 8:00 AM EST Updated Tue, Jun 5 2018 11:10 AM EDT Catherine Clifford @CatClifford.
Jacob & Co. Astronomia Flawless $! Million watch makes debut in Geneva
Valued at $1 million, the watch makes its official debut tomorrow, but we have secured the rights to showcase it today. The name “flawless” is a play off of a term in the diamond world, wherein flawless refers to the highest grade of diamond clarity. In fact, the Astronomia Flawless features a monobloc sapphire case that consists of the case (case band and lugs as a solid piece), a dome and a caseback. Additionally the watch boasts a sapphire barrel bridge in the movement, a blue sapphire dial and a sapphire buckle on the blue strap.
According to Jacob Arabo, Founder and CEO of Jacob & Co., the goal in this version was to offer full view of the movement. The original case of this watch had metal edges and sides, while the new case is a monobloc of totally transparent sapphire. This is an extremely difficult thing to achieve, as evidenced by the fact that to date, there are fewer than a handful of watch brands that have been able to release fully transparent sapphire cases.
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It takes approximately 37 weeks to make all of the sapphire components for the Jacob & Co Astronomia Flawless
In fact, it takes about 37 weeks just to produce the sapphire components. The process from start to finish of the dome alone includes nine steps, ranging from cutting of the raw material, to grinding, working it on a CNC (Computer Numeric Control) machine, polishing, fine polishing, an ultrasound wave cleaning and an antireflective treatment – all of which takes nearly 300 hours to accomplish for each dome.
The making of the case requires an additional six steps and takes a total of 326 hours to complete each one. Another near 300 hours of cutting, polishing, chamfering and brushing to finish the sapphire base is required. Within each watch, there is a tiny sapphire disk that represents the dial, and takes 280 hours to complete, with a similar amount of time going into the making of the sapphire strap buckle. As such, more than 40 steps totaling more than 1300 hours go into the making of a single timepiece – not withstanding the building of the movement.
The manually wound movement has also been revisited and now boasts two 288-facet Jacob Cut(R) spheres.
The complicated manually wound movement – JCAM16 caliber with triple axis tourbillon -- has also been revisited. This new piece features two spherical 288-facet diamond spheres. One is a 1 carat Jacob Cut® diamond on one end of a satellite that acts as the sun and sits opposite an 18-karat rose gold and enamel Earth globe. Between the two spheres, and raised out of the center axis of the movement, is the second diamond sphere – a 2.23-carat Jacob Cut® multi-faceted yellow diamond.
The movement boasts a rose-gold finish on the titanium bridges and, as mentioned above, the small dial is no longer metal, but is, instead a blued sapphire. Just nine individually numbered pieces will ever be made.
Roberta Naas is the founder of the online publication about watches, ATimelyPerspective.com, and is the author of six books on watches.
'>This week marks the start of the great unveiling in Geneva of new timepieces for 2017. In addition to the Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie (SIHH) exhibition starting tomorrow, a host of top brands are also showcasing their newest creations in a variety of locations around the city. Jacob & Co., for instance, has selected this week for the debut of his newest Astronomia Flawless watch. Based on the well-known Astronomia Gravitational Triple Axis Tourbillon watch with sun, moon and Earth globes, the newest piece is fully updated with a sapphire case for transparent viewing from all sides of the complicated movement.
Jacob & Co. Astronomia Flawless $! Million watch makes debut in Geneva
Valued at $1 million, the watch makes its official debut tomorrow, but we have secured the rights to showcase it today. The name “flawless” is a play off of a term in the diamond world, wherein flawless refers to the highest grade of diamond clarity. In fact, the Astronomia Flawless features a monobloc sapphire case that consists of the case (case band and lugs as a solid piece), a dome and a caseback. Additionally the watch boasts a sapphire barrel bridge in the movement, a blue sapphire dial and a sapphire buckle on the blue strap.
According to Jacob Arabo, Founder and CEO of Jacob & Co., the goal in this version was to offer full view of the movement. The original case of this watch had metal edges and sides, while the new case is a monobloc of totally transparent sapphire. This is an extremely difficult thing to achieve, as evidenced by the fact that to date, there are fewer than a handful of watch brands that have been able to release fully transparent sapphire cases.
It takes approximately 37 weeks to make all of the sapphire components for the Jacob & Co Astronomia Flawless
In fact, it takes about 37 weeks just to produce the sapphire components. The process from start to finish of the dome alone includes nine steps, ranging from cutting of the raw material, to grinding, working it on a CNC (Computer Numeric Control) machine, polishing, fine polishing, an ultrasound wave cleaning and an antireflective treatment – all of which takes nearly 300 hours to accomplish for each dome.
The making of the case requires an additional six steps and takes a total of 326 hours to complete each one. Another near 300 hours of cutting, polishing, chamfering and brushing to finish the sapphire base is required. Within each watch, there is a tiny sapphire disk that represents the dial, and takes 280 hours to complete, with a similar amount of time going into the making of the sapphire strap buckle. As such, more than 40 steps totaling more than 1300 hours go into the making of a single timepiece – not withstanding the building of the movement.
The manually wound movement has also been revisited and now boasts two 288-facet Jacob Cut(R) spheres.
The complicated manually wound movement – JCAM16 caliber with triple axis tourbillon -- has also been revisited. This new piece features two spherical 288-facet diamond spheres. One is a 1 carat Jacob Cut® diamond on one end of a satellite that acts as the sun and sits opposite an 18-karat rose gold and enamel Earth globe. Between the two spheres, and raised out of the center axis of the movement, is the second diamond sphere – a 2.23-carat Jacob Cut® multi-faceted yellow diamond.
The movement boasts a rose-gold finish on the titanium bridges and, as mentioned above, the small dial is no longer metal, but is, instead a blued sapphire. Just nine individually numbered pieces will ever be made.
Roberta Naas is the founder of the online publication about watches, ATimelyPerspective.com, and is the author of six books on watches.
This isn't the first time Jacob & Co. has wowed us with expensive and elaborate timepieces. In fact, one might say the eponymous brand makes habit of it. That may be because Jacob Arabo, founder of the company, is a jeweler first and foremost, and so adorning timepieces -- even the most complicated ones -- with diamonds and gemstones is second nature to him. In 2015, Jacob & Co. unveiled the Billionaire watch with 260 carats of diamonds retailing for $18 million. However, the just-unveiled, aptly named Millionnaire Yellow Diamonds watch, with a retail price of $6 million, may just be the best piece yet.The watch mechanism is also a work of art. It is an exclusive Jacob & Co. skeletonized manual wind caliber (JCAM23) with tourbillon escapement to compensate for errors in timekeeping due to the effects of gravity when the watch is in different positions on the wrist. Each of the 197 individual components is hand finished and polished, and each is reduced to the barest minimum of metal possible without compromising the part's strength and durability. By reducing the amount of metal, the movement is nicely exposed -- and seems to float beautifully between the front and back sapphire crystals.
It took two years to collect all the Intense yellow diamonds for the Jacob & Co. Millionnaire Yellow Diamonds Watch, and months to set it.
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In addition to indicating hours and minutes, this watch offers 72 hours of power reserve. The watch measures 46mm x 35mm and is 11mm thick. It is crafted of 18-karat yellow gold to further enhance the yellow diamonds.
'In my mind, the buyer of the Millionnaire is someone who can buy almost any watch or piece of jewelry they want, but are looking for a piece that is daring and unique -- yet still timeless,' says Arabo of this Yellow Diamonds watch. 'It's not the type of watch that someone wears everyday, so I imagine the buyer as a collector, who appreciates the artistry and attention of detail put into the piece.'
Of course, Jacob & Co. also releases a Millionnaire White Diamonds watch with the same movement. That watch is crafted in 18-karat white gold and bedecked with 150 emerald-cut diamonds weighing more than 40 carats. It is offered on a white alligator strap.
There is a colorless Jacob & Co Millionnaire Diamonds watch, as well.
Jacob & Co.These Millionniare timepieces join a very strong line-up of Astronomia and other watches Jacob & Co. will premier at the upcoming Baselworld Exhibition in Switzerland in March.
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