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Jacob & Co’s  $20 million ‘Billionaire Timeless Treasure’

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Rare Touch Rose Gold Glove by Jacob&Co.

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Jacob & Co. "Billionaire Timeless Treasure"

The watch uses almost exclusively yellow diamonds (along with a green tsavorite edge to the display).

Typically, we imagine diamonds to be white and it’s true that white diamonds are the most commonly used in watchmaking. However, depending on the impurities present, diamonds can actually be almost any colour with yellow diamonds among the rarest in existence – the colour only occurring once in every 10,000 diamonds.

Procuring all 425 yellow diamonds took more than 3 years with many stones rejected due to imperfections and a lack of pure colour. In total, the gems used amounted to 880 carats in their rough state, which in their cut form totals to 216.89 carats. That drastic difference is due in part to the fact that Jacob & Co. have used one of the most complicated and rare gem cuts, known as Asscher-cut, for every single diamond on the case and bracelet.

The Asscher-cut makes brilliant cuts or baguette cuts look simple. It consists of 57 facets in a square shape with inclined corners, making it appear more like a stylised octagon than a square in reality. Each gem is then carefully placed into the gold lattice of the case or bracelet according to its individually chosen location according to size and colour. Jacob & Co. notes that because they prioritised purity of colour over size, some of the largest rough diamonds now feature among the smallest present on the watch.

To touch quickly on the non-Asscher-cut gems that are found on the Billionaire Timeless Treasure: there are 57 baguette cut yellow diamonds and 76 tsavorites. The baguette diamonds are found set into the watch’s skeletonised movement and the tsavorites (in a combination of emerald-cut and kite-cut) create a frame around the display. They add a burst of colour to the piece and also give the watch a colour palette reminiscent of South American treasure.

The movement is the JCAM39, a manual wind tourbillon movement with a 72-hour power reserve. 

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Jacob & Co CR7 Epic X

18-karat rose gold with baguette diamonds, limited to 99 pieces