For the past seven years, Jacob & Co. has been releasing dragon-themed high watchmaking timepieces without interruption. This year, as a tribute to the Year of The Wooden Dragon in the Chinese Traditional Calendar, Jacob & Co. creates a new one-of-a-kind piece – The Mystery Tourbillon Twin Dragons.
This one-off masterpiece melds high watchmaking with artistic elegance, and features a pioneering flying central twin triple-axis tourbillon encased in a 50-mm rose gold setting, meticulously adorned with hexagon-cut diamonds.
Set in a 50-mm rose gold case, the Mystery Tourbillon Coiled Dragon watch is the only one with a flying, central, twin, triple-axis, back-to-back tourbillon. It also houses a pair of miniature dragon sculptures. Coiled around the large tourbillon sphere and around each other, their bodies are crafted from rose gold and entirely lacquered by hand.
Both fly among stylized clouds, with their heads perpetually chasing a Pearl of Wisdom. The two pearls are a pair of large Jacob-cut, 288-facet white diamonds. One acts as the hours hand, the other as the minutes hand. The 50-mm rose gold case is invisibly set with 192 white hexagon-cut diamonds (12 ct.)
In the past seven years, Jacob & Co. has crafted over 41 Astronomia Art pieces where a dragon steals the show. Each one of them is a finely crafted, highly elaborate Métiers d’Art unique piece. These miniature rose gold sculptures are cast, finished and painted, by hand.
Highlighted by its large panes of sapphire crystal, the dragons’ bodies are intertwined with the Astronomia movement. Some highlights include the Astronomia Art White Dragon, Astronomia Art Red Dragon Baguette or the Astronomia Art Black Dragon. The combination of high watchmaking, high crafts, high jewellery and the most noble of creatures puts the Astronomia Dragon collection in a class of its own.
