Wednesday, March 20, 2019

JACOB & CO. – Bugatti Special Edition


JACOB & CO. X Chrono and Twin Turbo Furious Bugatti Special Limited Edition

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Jacob & Co. Unveils Long-Term 
Partnership With Bugatti

Jacob & Co. is pleased to announce a long-term partnership with Bugatti, the world’s most celebrated high performance sports car manufacturer, to collaborate on a series of exclusive co- branded products. This partnership brings together two companies that share a passion for cutting-edge design, pushing the limits of what seems mechanically possible. Stephan Winkelmann and Jacob Arabo, the Presidents of Bugatti and Jacob & Co., officialized the partnership at Baselworld 2019.

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For this project we found the right partner in Jacob & Co., because we are both absolutely dedicated to innovation with superb technology, absolute beauty, craftsmanship and the highest quality of the materials”, explained Stephan Winkelmann, President of Bugatti, at the stand of Jacob & Co. at Baselworld.

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When I look at a Bugatti Chiron, the perfectly refined engineering is so powerful that sometimes the car appears to be moving even when it is standing still”, Jacob Arabo, founder of Jacob & Co., added. “That’s the same feeling I get when I wear our high complication timepieces: a rush, a sense of energy, movement and power that can barely be contained.”

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The partnership begins with a limited edition of the Jacob & Co. high complication masterpiece the Twin Turbo Furious Bugatti Edition. The original Twin Turbo Furious electrified Baselworld when it launched in 2018, with its breathtaking twin triple-axis tourbillons, column-wheel chronograph and decimal repeater. Designed with high performance sports cars in mind, the Twin Turbo Furious Bugatti Edition features turquois around the dial that pays homage to Bugatti’s 110 year anniversary Chiron, positions the Bugatti logo proudly and prominently in the center of the dial and renames the power reserve indicator “fuel” and sports the colors of the French flag on the gauge. Only 39 timepieces will be made, each individually numbered: 18 in carbon fiber, 18 in rose gold, and three with diamonds.

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The partnership will also see the release of a special version of a sporty “Bugatti Chrono Edition Limitée 110 Ans” in a limited edition of 110 pieces to mark each year since the founding of Bugatti by Ettore Bugatti in 1909. The defining technical element of the Epic X Chrono is the Jacob & Co. JCAA05 skeletonized self-winding chronograph movement.

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This high-end chronograph caliber is equipped with a column-wheel to launch the chronograph functions. Its counters are arranged in a bi-compax format, with the small running seconds on the left, at nine o’clock, and the elapsed minutes counter on the right, at three o’clock; the elapsed seconds are read on the central French flag red chronograph seconds hand.

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The Bugatti version features a newly invented special forged carbon case and incorporates the colors of the French flag into its bold dial design underlining Bugatti’s heritage.

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The timepiece comes on a special rubber strap inspired by the iconic rear bonnet of the Bugatti Chiron and will feature the iconic “EB”-logo on the buckle to commemorate the partnership.

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Technical Specifications

Collection: GRAND COMPLICATION

Model : TWIN TURBO Furious Bugatti

Case
Black DLC Titanium and carbon fiber case
Diameter: 57mm x 52mm  
Height: 17mm
Domed sapphire crystal with AR coating
Sapphire case back
Water-resistant to 30m
External Parts: Complex shaped case, 88 components.
Movement
Exclusive Manufacture Caliber – JCFM05
hand-wound mechanical movement
34 mm x 46 mm x13.7 mm
Hours, minutes, small seconds, monopusher chronograph with ‘reference time indication’,
decimal minute repeater, double triple axis tourbillon (rotation in 24, 8 and 30 seconds) and power reserve indicator.
75 jewels;
21,600  vib/h (3Hz);
50h power reserve;
832 parts
Material:  Titanium;  System: Double Triple Axis 
Sequential High-Speed Tourbillon:  1st Axis  Flying: in 24 seconds; 2nd Axis Flying: 
in 8 seconds; 3rd  Axis Flying: in 30 seconds; Regulator  between the Triple Axis 
High-Speed Tourbillon Carriers; Double Mechanical Safety Feature During a Chiming
Sequence;  Integrated Chronograph, Horizontal Column-Wheel, Mono Push Start-Stop-Reset.
Finishing: Hand Angled and Polished Plate and Bridges; Flank Draw, Circular Graining;
Circular Barrel and Plate; Polished Screw; Conical Pinions; 4 Mechanical Ball Bearing Devices; 2 Screw Balances.
Functions
1.Hours, Minutes; Small Second Indicator at 9 O’clock; 2.Mono Push
Chronograph: Minute Counter  at  3  o’clock,  Centered  Second  Hand;  3.Reference 
Time Minute and Second displayed at 6 O’clock Aperture; Reference Time Differential,
displayed by Chronograph Second Hand on Dial-Trained Pit Board; 4.Decimal Minute
Repeater:  Hours,  10  min.  and  minutes;  2  Hammers  at  12  O’clock;  5.Double  Triple 
Axis Sequential High-Speed Tourbillon; 6.Power Reserve Indicator at 6 O’clock
Dial and hands
Smoked Sapphire with “Jacob&Co.” Logo, Blue Neoralithe Inner 
Ring with Second Graduation; Red  Neoralithe Indexes with White Superluminova 
Hands: Rose Gold;; White Superluminova
Strap
Black leather strap on gold folding buckle

Availability: Limited edition of 18 pieces

Price: CHF 525,000

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Press Release - 2019
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