Jacob & Co. has announced the latest launch of its new “Gotham City” luxury watch, the first offering in a multi-year partnership with Warner Bros.
With superior materials inspired by the legendary Bruce Wayne, the Gotham City is a limited edition 45.5 mm diameter timepiece available in only 72 pieces. Jacob & Co. has created a series of with the duality of the alter egos in mind – only 36 pieces in black DLC titanium inspired by Batman himself and another exclusive set of 36 in 18K rose gold in honor of Batman’s secret identity, Bruce Wayne.
Fitted with a hyper complicated movement with twin, flying, sequential, high-speed, triple-axis tourbillons, the Gotham City is a tribute to Batman’s crime fighting tech and the influential lifestyle of Bruce Wayne.
A Symbolic Capsule
True to the iconic Batman character, The Gotham City is dark, angular, pointy, edgy and muscular in its execution. The case is made of black DLC titanium, immune to scratching while the shape of the lugs is meant to resemble the Batsuit’s multi-faceted design. With every detail accounted for, even the crown is covered with a rubber band symbolic of the Batmobile’s tires.
The central surface, which is the most part of the Gotham City dial, is shaped like the Bat emblem – cut into a slab of solid onyx, a hard stone that’s perfectly pitch black and polished to perfection.
Inside the case and under the dial is the timepieces’s most visible feature, a pair of triple-axis tourbillons. Made of sandblasted titanium with the central part of the cages covered in black, as the cages rotate, recreating a full sphere, they show both matte gray and shiny black elements – reflecting the constant switch from darkness to light that authentically represents the Batman/Bruce Wayne persona.
Advanced Watchmaking Technology
From an horological perspective, this calibre is as advanced as it gets. It’s comprised of 382 components, the most striking of which may be that bat-bridge while the most complex being the incredible tourbillons. Each one of them rotates along three different axes while each axis drives a separate cage.
Another striking feature of the rotating organs is that they’re sequential. Mounted on the wheel that drives the tourbillon, a spring accumulates energy to allow the cages to ‘jump’ forward creating a series of sequential, very visible moves, with pauses in between.
To top it all off, the tourbillons inside the Jacob & Co Gotham City timepiece are a flying kind -fitting for this legendary superhero who leaps in the air, travels in a winged hovering machine and responds to a signal etched on clouds. This unique timepiece brings a whole new heroic dimension to your watch collection.
