Jacob & Co.’s brand-new partnership with DC Comics brings forth a Bat-watch filled with hints that speak to every Bat-fan out there.
Would Bruce Wayne trade his 18K Rose Gold watch for a Black DLC Matte Titanium?
Would you? Well, it’s a tough choice to make but technically since he is Batman, he would have both, one for the day and one for the night.
But given a choice which one would you choose?
Jacob & Co.’s Founder and Creative Director, Jacob Arabo has managed to embody the essence of Batman through a masterpiece Bruce Wayne himself would not be able to resist.
Think of Bruce Wayne and the persona that comes to mind is of a deeply intellectual, introverted, philanthropist. His desire to bring justice to the criminals of Gotham springs from his dark past.
It is thus befitting his billionaire status to flaunt a watch that speaks eloquently about his impenetrability, his sombre yet charming prowess.
Both the models of the Gotham City watch have been fitted with a hyper complicated movement with twin, flying, sequential, triple-axis tourbillons, the watch is true to the hyperbolic nature of the Dark Knight.
He only ever uses the best gear available and said gear always resembles his costume, his colours, his style. Gotham City also has two faces. It’s both matte and luminous, dark and funny, earnest and playful, highly engineered and in the final analysis, toy-like.
Because the last thing Jacob & Co. wants is someone asking, “Why so serious?” with a disturbing, enlarged smile.
The symbolic aspects of Gotham City are everywhere. The shape of the lugs resembles the Bat-suit’s multi-faceted design. The crown is covered with a rubber band shaped like the Batmobile’s tires. The indices are black, pointy, and sharp as a Batarang. The dial is shaped like the Bat emblem. It’s cut into a slab of solid onyx, outlined by a contour made of Neoralithe, coloured in yellow and it glows blue in the dark, a nod to the Bat-signal. Lastly, the pair of triple-axis tourbillons are shaped like the grappling hooks the Batman uses.
Jacob & Co. fitted Gotham City with an extremely advanced, spectacular, and efficient movement.
It’s comprised of 382 components, the, most striking of which may be a bat-bridge visible through the case back, but the most complex being the two tourbillons. Each one of them rotates along three different axes. Both have no upper bridge and are therefore of the flying kind. Isn’t it only fitting for a superhero who leaps in the air, travels in a winged hovering machine and responds to a signal etched on clouds to have a flying attribute?
But that’s not all, the box in which Gotham City comes is enough to turn anyone into Poison Ivy. So if you can and you do not get yourself one of these spectacular dark new age bat-toys the joke’s on you.