Jacob & Co. has been designing watches in collaboration with Universal Pictures for a few years now. The Opera Scarface Musical watch with a dial featuring artwork from the Scarface’s poster and a 120 note music box playing the “Bolivia” theme was a fine example. This aspect of watchmaking was introduced to the company’s Opera collection with the Opera Godfather, which has now received a new treatment.
For a fact, the Jacob & Co. Opera Godfather is a timepiece in a league of its own. It’s a high-end complication watch with state-of-the-art movement. The watch features a music box (playing the theme music from the motion picture) and a triple-axis tourbillon mounted on a rotating platform. This spins around the dial on tunes of the original track by Nino Rota.
The new timepiece
Among the exciting Jacob & Co.’s Godfather musical watches, the new black DLC grade 5 titanium edition is by far the most enticing. There is not much deviation from the OG, but the striking color gamut is a head-turner on its own, but not at the cost of the rotating gimmick on the face!
Powered by the 658-component JCFM04 movement – hand-wound by the violin-shaped crank – Opera Godfather is absolutely peerless timepiece with an unmatched capacity to amaze and entertain the wearer and the onlooker.
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Limited to 88 examples, the black DLC titanium edition of the Opera Godfather with its chiming mechanisms (evokes a total of 120 notes from the movie theme) represents a complicated and challenging feat in Haute Horlogerie.
While the hand-engraved, miniature Godfather seated himself in the middle of the dial has an ear on the chime and a cursory eye on the spectacular triple-axis tourbillon.