Jacob & Co. Unveils Its Biggest Launch Of The Year: The Opera Godfather 50th Anniversary 

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the legendary film, Jacob & Co. released an extremely rare 50-piece limited series that is a testament to the longstanding relationship between the film and Jacob & Co.’s high watchmaking. The timepiece fuses the world of ultra-high-end watchmaking with the breathtaking complexity of a mechanical music box, playing the iconic theme music of The Godfather, thus creating a timepiece that is truly like no other — in true Jacob & Co. fashion.

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Intricately curated from the inside out, not one detail within the Opera Godfather 50th Anniversary goes unnoticed. As another unparalleled high watchmaking feat for the brand, the Opera Godfather 50th Anniversary incorporates thirteen of the movie’s scenes, in the same narrative order as in the movie, which is laser-etched onto the white gold case with an unprecedented level of vividness and quality. Each scene is individually etched on the case using the ground-breaking, high-intensity, high-precision femtolaser technology that takes no less than 30 hours to perfect the craft. The piece also features the movie’s most famous quotes engraved on the music box barrels.

Housed in a bold 49-mm white gold case are intentional design touches that make this timepiece so special; from the quote-engraved rose gold barrels reading famous lines like “I’m gonna make him an offer he can’t refuse” or “never ask me about my business” and the Piano with the Godfather logo plate covering the combs in polished PVD black with rose gold deco to the delicate rose figurine.

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Like its predecessor, the Opera Godfather 50th Anniversary features the music box, engineered into the strict constraints of a wristwatch and designed to play the iconic theme music of The Godfather, recreated into this purely mechanical format in official partnership with Paramount Pictures. A single press on the pusher at the 10 o’clock position of the case initiates the chiming mechanism and sets 658 components into motion. Next, a pair of uniquely crafted cylinders begin to rotate at a finely calculated tempo, brushing their 36 teeth against a pair of combs to play a total of 120 notes of the original movie theme. Powered by the exclusive JCFM04 caliber, the time display remains in the correct 12/6 orientation as the entire platform of the Opera Godfather 50th Anniversary rotates during the impressive operation of the music box complication.

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A massive launch for Jacob & Co. indeed, the Opera Godfather 50th Anniversary serves as a symbol of Jacob & Co.’s esteemed connection to the film.