Review: Jacob & Co Epic X Chrono Carbon Bugatti

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We get close up and hands-on with the new Jacob & Co Epic X Chrono Carbon Bugatti, a celebration of 110 years of Bugatti: forged carbon on DLC titanium Chrono.

Jacob & Co Epic X Chrono Carbon Bugatti

This is a special version of a sporty “Bugatti Chrono Edition Limitée 110 Ans” in a limited edition of 110 pieces to mark each year since the founding of Bugatti by Ettore Bugatti in 1909 At the Jacob & Co booth in Baselworld, a Bugatti Chiron similar to the one in the photograph below is prominently displayed, proclaiming this special partnership

Case dial and hands

The Bugatti case is a special forged carbon case.

The case is made of a combination of black DLC Titanium and Forged Carbon, giving the watch a unique look Coupled with the French flag colours on the dial as “racing stripes” The overall aesthetic evokes the emotions of a rush, a sense of energy, movement and power

The case is rather massive, coming in at 47mm in diamter and 17mm height.

However, due to the titanium and carbon fibre construction, it feels very light and agile on the wrist

The pushers are in black DLC titanium and protected by the guards in frged carbon Pushers are flat buttons which follows the power lines of the overall aesthetic.

Both the screw down crowns are in black ceramic

The dial is in carbon fibre with a black satin finished anodized aluminium inner rings A Bugatti logo completes the dual branding at the lower half of the dial, while the Jacob & Co logo occupies the upper.

The layout is the classical bi-compax design, with the hour and minutes indicated with skeletonized javelin style hands, and a subsidiary seconds hand on the 9 sub-dial The chronograph has two hands, a centrally pivoted chronograph seconds hand in red and a minute totalizer at the sub-dial at 3

Legibility is not the absolute best as the dial colours are complementary rather than contrasting, but the visual impact of the French tricolors are quite impressive

The timepiece comes on a special rubber strap inspired by the iconic rear bonnet of the Bugatti Chiron and will feature the iconic “EB”-logo on the buckle to commemorate the partnership.

The movement: JCAA05

The defining technical element of the Epic X Chrono is the Jacob & Co JCAA05 We understand this is a house developed self-winding chronograph movement exclusive to Jacob & Co.

This movement is used in the the other watches in the Epix Chrono series In the Bugatti edition, it is skeletonized

Movement finishing is rather hard to judge as the back sapphire glass is smoked in a dark finish.

The French tricolors with “110 Ans Bugatti” is proudly emblazoned across the movement We did get a look at the open movement and observed circular Côtes de Genève applied on the bridges The chronograph works features a very high engineering polish applied to the bridges and the column wheel.

The rotor is finished in a very dark antracite with red lacquer []

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