Mr. Jacob Arabo, creator and creative director of the watch and jewellery firm Jacob & Co., placed the famed Twine Turbo Furious watch on the Al Nassr striker’s wrist.
Ronaldo is reported to have found solace in this, given the Portuguese player was absent from Al Nassr’s most recent 3-2 victory over Al Duhail in the 2023-24 AFC Champions League group stage, which occurred early on August 8, 2011.
“I was in the neighbourhood, so I decided to come and deliver this special watch to the unique star, Cristiano,” Jacob Arabo wrote in an Instagram post.
The Twine Turbo Furious was released in 2018, and it went one step further by including a time difference computer and a single-pusher chronograph.
Ronaldo is the world’s highest-paid athlete, earning an estimated $136 million a year, so it stands to reason that he would collect numerous priceless timepieces. The Portuguese athlete has been sighted wearing the most expensive Rolex ever built, a custom Girard-Perregaux and a $700,000 Brilliant Flying Tourbillon.
The “superb” watch that Ronaldo recently purchased is a tribute to high-performance supercars and their mechanical intricacy, as are all of the timepieces in this collection.
This model, weighing only 1.15 grammes, is composed of approximately 832 beautifully hand-assembled and adorned components, 104 of which are the tourbillon.
The Twine Turbo Furious watch features 344 baguette-cut white diamonds set in an 18-carat white gold case with a diameter of 57mm. Uniquely curved sapphire crystals on the front and back allow light to pass through the complicated JCFM05 movement, which has an impressive 50-hour power reserve.
