For a horologist that often says it’s “inspired by the impossible,” the luxury watchmakers at Jacob and Co. might have outdone even themselves with the God of Time, a record-smashing tourbillon watch with an utterly impressive build and complication.
The ultra-luxury watch brand that’s favored by the likes of NFL legend Tom Brady takes things to the next level with its latest release, a stunner of a watch boasting the company’s Caliber JCAM60 with an ultra-light 0.27-gram titanium tourbillon carriage movement. At four seconds per rotation, the God of Time is billed by Jacob and Co. as a “horological innovation,” with stylish, eye-catching looks to match.
The pleasantly sized 44.5 mm rose gold case takes its design cues from Ionic Greek temple pillars, the company notes, while a striking three-dimensional rose gold sculpture pays tribute to the Greek god of time, Chronos. The design and its effect serves to fuse “the piece into the embodiment of time itself,” Jacob and Co. noted. Called “the Olympus of complications,” the house-made design is remarkable in matters of both form and function, the horologist said.
Typical tourbillon watches cover one rotation every 60 seconds (about 99.5% of tourbillon movements meet that mark, Jacob & Co. notes). On the other hand, Jacob & Co. says, its latest Earth-shifting timepiece “shatters conventions” with its “incredibly fast tourbillon carriage” as part of a 283-component movement.
The movement itself, weighing in at a mere .27 grams, was developed from “a blank page,” Jacob and Co. notes, using a sapphire upper bridge and placing the movement underneath a blue aventurine slab. The figure of Chronos is hand-crafted and burnished over the course of several days, as if the movement itself wasn’t impressive enough: The horologist notes the figure of Chronos and its production “is one of the most impressive Métiers d’Art artifacts ever featured in a high complication timepiece.”
A series of two stacked barrels help drive the almost impossibly fast timepiece, which accomplishes its rotation swiftly in what Jacob and Co. calls “a Herculean task” compared to more ordinary tourbillon watches. For a company that boasts more than 30 types of tourbillon movements in its luxury watch lineup, the feat is without parallel: Naturally, the God of Time bears a price tag to match at about $360,000. Jacob and Co. says the God of Time is “like a watch made in heaven,” and it’s difficult to argue with those undeniable results.
