高级雪茄和高档腕表经常出现在手上，所以这两类物品走到一起进行合作，也就不足为奇了。多米尼加历史最为悠久的雪茄制造商拉奥罗拉公司日前和美国奢侈品牌珠宝商Jacob & Co.（雅各布公司）联合推出一款高档腕表，这款腕表还配有雪茄保湿盒以及10支限量版雪茄。
这次合作推出的腕表是雅各布的史诗X（Epic X）系列，这个系列的腕表曾经多次出现在一些联名款里。比如和足球运动员克里斯蒂亚诺·罗纳尔多合作推出过一次，还和豪华汽车制造商布加迪（Bugatti）合作过。这款史诗X拉奥罗拉腕表的表面是可以看见内部构造的透明镂空设计，表壳是44毫米的玫瑰金，配有华丽的装饰，表盘上有拉奥罗拉的标志物狮子、名字以及该公司最为经典的1号完美造型雪茄的图案。
和腕表组合的是一个雪茄保湿盒以及10支拉奥罗拉120周年限量版雪茄。这款雪茄是去年为了纪念拉奥罗拉公司120周年而发布的，定位为常规产品线，但是去年只生产了2500盒。每盒是10支装盒，在美国的售价是每盒400美元。雪茄是完美造型，58环径，6英寸，完全由多米尼加烟叶卷制。茄衣是哈瓦那92烟叶，茄套是奥罗烟叶，加薪是古巴皮洛托、奥罗、科罗霍的混合烟叶。120周年纪念版采用完美造型，是为了纪念拉奥罗拉公司在1903年发布的第一批完美造型雪茄。为了复制当初的包装，这款纪念版雪茄也采用了铰链式的棺材木盒小包装。
联名腕表只生产了10块，其中7块预售给了拉奥罗拉家族的吉列尔莫·莱昂以及他们家族的朋友，仅有三块对外出售。这三块表分别陈列在雅各布的实体门店，分布在纽约、迈阿密、瑞士的日内瓦三个城市。每块腕表的售价是4.8万美元。
雪茄行业里经常有制造商和腕表制造商合作推出联名款腕表，比如拉帕利纳公司和阿克特隆腕表，阿图罗·富恩特和宇舶表，阿塔迪斯烟草公司和法国BRM腕表，非古高希霸与瑞士真力时腕表，太平洋雪茄经销公司曾经发布过一款装满古巴雪茄和瑞士库尔沃腕表的雪茄保湿盒。
Premium cigars and fine watches go hand-in-hand, so it’s no surprise when these two worlds come together for high-end collaborations. The newest partnership brings together the oldest Dominican cigarmaker, La Aurora, with the luxury jeweler Jacob & Co., for a new La Aurora-branded watch that comes with a humidor and limited-edition smokes.
The collaboration revolves around Jacob & Co.’s Epic X watch collection, a series of timepieces that’s appeared in several prominent partnerships, including one with soccer player Christiano Ronaldo and another with luxury car manufacturer Bugatti. The Epic X La Aurora timepiece is a skeleton watch with exposed inner workings. It features a rose gold 44mm case and ornate embellishments such as the La Aurora name, logo and an image of their classic No. 1 perfecto cigar.
With each purchase of the watch, customers will receive a humidor and 10 La Aurora 120th Anniversary Limited Edition cigars. The smokes were shipped to retailers this past fall, and are part of a larger, regular-production line from La Aurora released last year to celebrate the company’s 120th anniversary. At 6 inches long by 58 ring gauge, the double-tapered perfecto consists entirely of Dominican tobacco: A Habano ’92 wrapper, Olor binder and a combination of Piloto Cubano, Olor and Corojo filler. The perfecto is a tribute to the very first Preferidos from La Aurora in 1903 and comes in hinged, coffin-like tubos meant to replicate the original packaging. These cigars are made in small batches at La Aurora S.A. in the Dominican Republic, with only 2,500, 10-count boxes produced in total for this year.
The watches were limited to a production of just 10 units, seven of which were pre-sold to Guillermo León of La Aurora and his family and friends. The remaining three sets are available at Jacob & Co. brick-and-mortar stores across three destinations—New York City, Miami and Geneva, Switzerland. Each watch carries a suggested retail price of $48,000.
This wouldn’t be the first time a cigar company teams up with a watchmaker. Other cigar and watch collaborations include La Palina and Accutron; Arturo Fuente and Hublot; Altadis and B.R.M. Chronographes; and Cohiba and Zenith. Most recently, Habanos distributor Pacific Cigar Co. Ltd., released a humidor replete with Cuban cigars and a timepiece from Cuervo y Sobrinos.
