Jacob & Co., Bucherer BLUE, and Sotheby's Send the First Tourbillon Into Space

Jacob & Co., Bucherer BLUE, and Sotheby's are reaching for the stars. The two famed watch companies, celebrated for their innovative and dazzling designs, along with Sotheby's, the world's premier destination for art and luxury, have joined forces in the spirit of exploration to send a special timepiece into the unmapped vastness of space before going up for a charitable auction this summer. Named the Jacob & Co. Astronomia Tourbillon Bucherer BLUE, the unique watch, a marvel of Swiss craftsmanship and the decorative arts, was the first triple axis tourbillon to leave the Earth's atmosphere.

On April 18, from the Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Axiom Space launched a four-person team to and from the International Space Station (ISS). The flight named AX-1, returned off the Florida coast on Monday, April 25. A crew member on this historical mission was Eytan Stibbe, an impact investor and philanthropist, leading the Israeli designed Rakia mission to space. He had the distinction carrying along the Jacob & Co., Astronomia Tourbillon Bucherer BLUE.

The Rakia mission, along with the Astronomia Tourbillon Bucherer BLUE, spent 17 days, 1 hour and 37 minutes in space, as the space crew orbited the Earth 273 times at an altitude of 250 miles at nearly 17,500 mph, traveling over 7 million miles in total.