Only two years into the watch business, Jacob and Co. Billionaire Watch has enormously had a colossal impact in the space. More people today, wear a watch on their wrists than in their pockets as was common back in the years.
Wrist-watches have therefore become very ‘wrist-famous’ nowadays. Many people, particularly the rich ones consistently want to put on a costly watch, despite the fact that not every one of them flashily favor doing that.
There are a few expensive watches that characterizes the wealthy fellows, and one of them is Jacob and Co. Billionaire. A quartz watch with a 260-carat, blinged-out wristband of emerald-cut precious stones (counting a couple of 3 carats each), this Jacob and Co. watch was bought from Takashi Fukushima by boxing star Floyd Mayweather, who also owns a storeroom brimming with Hermès Birkin packs and a Rolls Royce Phantom.
The watch which was created in 2018, is as expensive as $18 million, and clearly only Billionaires can manage the cost of this. As the name depicts, Jacob and Co. Billionaire watch is such lovely that, it accompanies carats of white jewels. And on seeing it unexpectedly, you’ll be flabbergasted by the features, hence the price.
Additionally, in the no so distant past, the Swiss watchmaker Jacob and Co. indeed released a new one called the Billionaire Ashoka. This watch is a update on its Jacob & Co. Billionaire watch encrusted with 189 carats of William Goldberg’s Ashoka jewels.
The exceptional cut is named after King Ashoka Maurya, a renowned third-century warrior, who is also seen as perhaps the best sovereign. The cost of this shining example is $7 million. In fact, each part of the solitary piece– – from the case to the wristband to the fasten – is canvassed in 62 instances of the selective jewel, all faceted with exactness.
Billionaire Ashoka watch is 30% bigger than a standard emerald-cut precious stone of a similar weight. Featuring its solid rakish shape is the skeletonized type JCAM09 tourbillon development that lies behind the precious stone façade.
The multifaceted, handmade movement is made out of 167 elements and 19 gems with a 72-hour power hold. Furthermore, in light of the fact that there’s consistently space for additional precious stones, a last rose-slice gem attached to the crown finishes the plan. Each stone was GIA-certified with the absolute biggest weighing up to three carats completely all alone, and all were laid upon a 18K white gold establishment.
Three years after its creation, the Jacob and Co. Billionaire watch was finally purchased in June 2018 by Floyd Mayweather. On Instagram, the expert boxer gladly paraded the US$18 million watch, purchased from Tokyo gem jeweller Tadashi Fukushima.