While Manchester United is the most winning Premier League team of all time, it’s their rivals Manchester City who have dominated the modern era of football with 6 title wins since 2018. Man City are no strangers to a high-end wristwatch or two, just look at the collection of manager Pep Guardiola. And now they’ve announced a new, official wristwatch partnership with Jacob & Co. As part of the partnership, Jacob & Co. have launched a trio of collaborative watches: the Epic X Sport Edition Manchester City and two versions of the Epic X Chrono 44 Edition Manchester City in full rose gold or rose gold and ceramic.
Epic X Sport Edition Manchester City
Starting with the Epic X Sport Edition Manchester City, it measures 41mm in diameter with a case made from titanium. The dial is as flash as you’d expect from J&C. featuring a diamond motif in bright and shiny rhodium finishing. The Man City logo takes pride of place below the hand stack at 6 o’clock. The club’s colours are also well represented via the minute scale, hexagon rubber strap and crown. It’s powered by the JCHA01, a time and date movement with a 70-hour power reserve. The watch is a limited edition of 250 pieces at £15,000, which for a Jacob & Co. is about as accessible as they get.
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Epic X Chrono 44 Edition Manchester City
Second is the Epic X Chrono 44 Edition Manchester City in full rose gold. The 44mm rose gold case with the characteristic X shaped lugs reminds me of Jacob & Co.’s other high-profile football collab, the CR7 collection with Christiano Ronaldo. Here though the case houses a dial with a bicompax chronograph display featuring small seconds and a 30-minute timer. The dial itself is also translucent, giving a glimpse of the JCAA05 movement below. It also has a sapphire exhibition caseback bearing the inscription “THE BEST TEAM IN THE LAND AND ALL THE WORLD”, which features on all three watches. Limited to 20 pieces at £50,000.
Last up is the Epic X Chrono 44 Edition Manchester City in rose gold and blue ceramic. It’s more or less identical to the full gold edition except that the bezel, pushers, crown and caseback are made from sky blue ceramic. Adding a sportier edge to the gold timepiece. It houses the same JCAA05 movement with its 48-hour power reserve. Due to the lower gold content in the design, it has a lower price than its full gold counterpart at £37,000 in a limited edition of 30 pieces.
As a collaboration collection, all three watches are pretty much what you’d expect from Jacob & Co. teaming up with Manchester City. If Erling Haaland hadn’t already been snatched up as an ambassador for Breitling you can imagine he’d be all over this – as is, it seems Phil Foden will be the face of the partnership judging by the early promotional materials.
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More details at Jacob & Co.
