The Mystery Tourbillon Double Dragon
Power reserve: 60 h, 21600 vph
Chasing dragons
The Mystery Tourbillon Double Dragon is fine crafts and poetry in motion. With two majestic, Asian-style great lizards chasing each other, and the Pearl of Wisdom, this unique piece combines Métiers d'Art, high watchmaking and high jewelry, executed at the highest level.
The Mystery Tourbillon Double Dragon is fitted with a movement that has no equivalent. It's the only twin, triple-axis, back-to-back, flying, central tourbillon. Its time indication is a nod the the ancient mysterious clocks, whose inner workings were unfathomable. In The Mystery Tourbillon Double Dragon, the hour is shown by a dragon, and the minutes by another dragon, both spinning endlessly around the central tourbillon.
The Mystery Tourbillon Double Dragon houses a pair of miniature dragon sculptures. They're coiled around the large tourbillon sphere and around each other. Their bodies are cast individually and made from a single piece of solid rose gold. Each one is engraved and polished by hand over the course of three weeks. The painting of these works of art requires an extra week. The development process for this special, one-off version of The Mystery Tourbillon spans over 2 full years and countless prototypes.
Both dragons are flying among stylized clouds, made from a blend of paint and mother-of-pearl. Both creatures are perpetually chasing a Pearl of Wisdom. These two pearls are in fact a pair of large Jacob-cut, 288-facet white diamonds, of 0.41 carat each. One acts as the hours hand, the other as the minutes hand, surrounded by 12 indices made of a baguette cut white diamond. The Pearl of Wisdom is not meant to be reached, only chased, and so do the two creatures, sending their own message of wisdom.
The crownless, 50-mm, rose gold case of The Mystery Tourbillon Double Dragon is set with 192 white hexagon-cut diamonds, weighing a total of 12 carats. All of them are applied into the case using the invisible setting technique, the most elaborate and advanced setting technique available, and a signature of the Jacob & Co. workshops.