Jacobs X Bugatti Chiron Tourbillon

Launch of the Jacobs X Bugatti Chiron Tourbillon Super sports car meets super watch.

Bugatti Chiron is Bugatti’s latest extreme automotive engineering practice. For car enthusiasts, it seems to be a proposition that loves it or hates it. When Veyron first came out, I had the opportunity to experience it, and although I was pretty sure I was as far away as possible from its target population and still a member of the Homo sapiens species, I thought it was a ton (well, two tons and change , To be more precise) of the fun, I am glad it exists.

I feel the same about Jacob & Co’s watchmaking industry. The company continues to practice a watchmaking industry that many people have tried, but rarely succeeded: minimalist, irresistible top-level watches, they are just timing tools by the way. These were and are mechanical fantasy on the wrist. Compared with traditional watches, they may be more similar to mechanical entertainment such as automata.

The recent collaboration between Bugatti and Jacob & Co. has just produced one of the most exciting watches I have seen in a long time: the Bugatti Chiron Tourbillon. Chiron is a pure sport-the heart of the car is its huge 8-liter W16 engine mounted in the chassis, which outputs-grab your underwear, Gertrude-1,479 horsepower, and easily push the car towards The top speed is electronically limited to 261 miles per hour. (James Stacey of HODINKEE drove the Veyron and told me that it can find 200kph in the fourth gear. “It’s no exaggeration on any on-ramp.”)

The Bugatti Chiron tourbillon, natürlich, is also a pure over-exercise. Albert Einstein’s special theory of relativity originated from asking a very simple but profound question: “If you ride on a beam of light, what would the world look like?” Similarly, the Bugatti Chiron tourbillon also comes from the same Simple and deeply rooted question: “If you make a miniature working machine model of the W16 engine in a Bugatti Chiron and put it in a watch, oh, what will you get? We should probably throw a tourbillon there, don’t forget A turbocharger?” What you get is a Bugatti Chiron tourbillon.

As the saying goes, “Just as it says.” This is indeed a tourbillon watch, with Brobdingnagian’s weight and great impact-54 mm x 44 mm. However, when considered next to an actual watch, the basic size becomes insignificant. The case is occupied by a manually-wound JCAM37 movement with a tourbillon regulator and honestly W16 engine, which occupies at least half the volume of the case. You push the actuator on the side of the case, the crankshaft rotates, the piston moves, and the micro turbocharger starts to rotate.

If there is a watch that needs to be seen in action to be appreciated, it is it. As the old saying goes, you can only judge a watch from photos, not from metal; it is absolutely true that to understand the influence of this watch, you must witness its performance with your own eyes. replica watches best

There is a famous saying in the movie Jurassic Park. Chaos mathematician Ian Malcolm scolded the dinosaur maker and shouted: “Your scientists are all wondering whether they can do it, and they didn’t stop to think about whether they should do it!” Of course, facts. Yes, the moment you see Tyrannosaurus rex, you are on the side of the dinosaur maker-damn institutional ethics review committee, making dinosaurs is cool. I have the same feeling about this watch. Of course, it has no reason to exist. Indisputably, it is as difficult to argue with Chiron’s four (or more, at this point, but who is counting?).

However, in the face of the lack of imagination and timid gradualism in the Swiss high-end watch industry, this is also a firm middle finger. Well, bien sûr, this is a car-themed watch that sells for $280,000; so what? Car-themed watches are too expensive, and we all know what most of them look like. There is a bit of carbon fiber here, there is some rubber, a perforated strap with colorful stitching, and voila, a car-themed watch. In fact, such a single-minded production of miniature engines-by the way, with a solid synthetic sapphire engine block-sets a new high standard for the manufacture of timepieces adjacent to the car. I will never own a Chiron or this watch, but I can’t applaud with enough strength, because it must have imagination and sheer guts to realize it.

Basic knowledge
Brand: Jacob & Co.
Model: Bugatti Chiron Tourbillon

Dimensions: 54mm x 44mm
Case material: black titanium; sapphire front and back
Water resistance: 30 meters
Strap/Bracelet: Rubber, with titanium folding clasp

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Caliber: manufactured by Jacob&Co. Manual winding JCAM37
Functions: hours and minutes; power reserve
Dimensions: 41.70 mm x 36 mm
Thickness: 15.60 mm power reserve
: 60 hours on the chain
: Manual
Frequency: 21,600 vph
Gems: 51
Other details: 30º tilting tourbillon; miniature model of W16 engine with synthetic sapphire engine block