Bitcoin-inspired watch goes on sale for $396,577
Astronomia: You’ve heard of haute couture, but what about haute horlogerie? There is no way you can be seen at the next crypto convention without this.
Astronomia is a new luxury offering from Jacob & Co watchmakers. This wrist decoration is at the sharp end of watchmaking – and costs almost $400,000.
The watch features a rotating Bitcoin logo, to remind Maximalists that they are right about everything. It also has a yellow sapphire sun, to thaw out the crypto winter. A diamond moon and a golden earth are parts that will be claimed by your wife when she leaves you for spending too much on a watch. It even has a black rocket ship, which has flaming jets, to remind us all that we are going to the moon.
The company says: “All these symbols tell the story of the emergence of the first cryptocurrency, from abstraction to reality, from outlier to a pillar of the financial system.”
The two rotating platforms are an interesting touch – one consists of the arms and other parts. The other is the microchip-designed main plate – a rotating backdrop that looks like Satoshi Nakamoto’s brain.
The rotating platform completes a rotation in 10 minutes, which is the time you should really wait between checking the price of Bitcoin.
This watch is surrounded by a sapphire crystal window, so you can easily see the inside of the watch. This is great when there’s nothing else to look at, like $30K frames projecting your NFTs onto a wall.
The strap is made of alligator leather. This is why the alligator was invented, other than for use as shoes and bags, and as villains in budget movies.
The crypto winter has put a lot of price pressure on luxury watches. But this has not dampened the enthusiasm of Jacob & Co.
The horologists who made it say it is an interdisciplinary engineering feat. The black titan Astronomia is a “tribute to the world of cryptocurrencies and to its pioneering and leading example, Bitcoin. It is interspersed with details and features directly related to the Bitcoin universe.”
Crypto bros, start your engines and get your wallets ready, because who are you without this watch?
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