Jacob & Co. X Bugatti Chiron Tourbillon The Bugatti Chiron is Bugatti's latest take on extreme automotive engineering, and it seems like a love-it-or-hate-it proposition for car enthusiasts. When the Veyron first came out, I had a chance to experience it, and while I'm pretty sure I'm as far away from its target population as possible and still be a member of the Homo sapiens species, I think it's a ton (well, more accurate It's fun to say two tons and change), and I'm glad it exists.

I feel the same way about Jacob & Co.'s watchmaking. The company continues to practice a craft of watchmaking that many have tried but few have succeeded in: minimalist, irrepressible top-of-the-line timepieces that are just timekeeping tools by the way. These were and are wrist-worn mechanical fantasies, perhaps more similar to traditional watches than mechanical entertainment such as automata.