{"id":30722,"date":"2018-09-20T09:30:11","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T07:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com?p=30722"},"modified":"2018-09-17T14:25:49","modified_gmt":"2018-09-17T12:25:49","slug":"jacob-co-hollywood-style-horlogy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/nouveaute-en-n-en\/xxl-2\/jacob-co-hollywood-style-horlogy.html","title":{"rendered":"Jacob &#038; Co: hollywood-style horlogy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>We promised you Hollywood-style horology ?<\/strong> Here is a quite literal example, unequivocally titled : Opera \u201cThe Godfather\u201d. This miniature masterpiece unites two ancestral Swiss mechanical traditions : watchmaking and music boxes. As you have doubtless guessed, the musical system plays on demand the first 20 seconds of the main theme of Coppola\u2019s legendary movie by means of a micro-cylinder. The technical prowess does not stop there, however, for when the system is triggered, the entire baseplates performs a 120\u00b0 rotation, while the differential dial remains perfectly aligned with the time readoff axis. Add the Maison\u2019s signature triple-axis tourbillon and you get a timepiece in which miniaturization and complexity flirt with the boundaries of excess. Nonetheless, the theatrical nature of such a creation may not appeal to devotees of pure mechanical horology and it is doubtless with them in mind that Jacob &amp; Co. has created another technical \u2018monster\u2019 : the Twin Turbo Furious. Imagine two tri-axial tourbillons, a minute repeater and a monopusher chronograph, all within a single wristwatch. And if you\u2019re tempted to consider that the ultimate expression of complexity, think again. The minute repeater also chimes ten-minute intervals and is protected from inadvertent handling by several security systems. Meanwhile, the chronograph features an additional function enabling the watch to display the seconds differential compared with a reference time initially determined by the chronograph hands. After such a profusion of mechanical prowess, the Epic X Chrono might almost appear overly simple. Yet this ultra-sporty bi-compax chronograph also houses a rare mechanism that sets it apart from many of its competitors : a countdown function that can be activated by a 10 o\u2019clock crown. Out-of-the-box horology, confined by no limits other than those set by Jacob Arabo himself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We promised you Hollywood-style horology ? Here is a quite literal example, unequivocally titled : [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":30954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[48],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30722"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30722"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30724,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30722\/revisions\/30724"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmtmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}