Jacob Arabo Biography
Jacob Arabo is an American jewelry and watches designer who created Jacob & Company in 1986 and expanded it into a global premium brand. He started out as a jeweler, creating flamboyant creations that drew in celebrities, who became regular customers.
How old is Jacob Arabo? – Age
He is 58 years old as of 3 June 2023. He was born in 1965 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
Jacob Arabo Family – Education
Arabo was born as the youngest of five children and the sole male. As a child, he assisted his sisters in repairing their jewels. He credits taking a photography course at the time with helping him comprehend design ideas. His fascination with timepieces began at the age of 13, when his father gifted him a world time watch. A year later, he worked part-time as a watchmaker’s assistant. He said that he “loved all the tiny parts and gears” as well as being “enthralled by his [father’s] ability to breathe life into a movement, to assemble it and then have it actually tell time.” He moved to New York City with his family when he was 14 years old in 1979. They lived in Forest Hills, Queens, and he went to Forest Hills High.
Jacob Arabo Wife
Arabo married Angela, who is also Bukharian Jewish, when he was 24. They have three sons: David, Benjamin, and Joey. The pair resides in Forest Hills, Queens, in a brick Colonial home that they purchased for $1.17 million in 1999.
Jacob Arabo Net Worth
Jacob has an estimated net worth of $50 million.
Jacob Arabo House
Jacob the Jeweler and his wife, Angela, have bought a two-bedroom, 3.5-bathroom condominium at Harry Macklowe’s 432 Park Avenue. He’s clearly done well for himself in the years since, since the couple paid $16.68 million for the 3,576-square-foot abode—Douglas Elliman (DOUG) handles sales at the building—which has a private elevator landing, library, and 12’6-foot ceilings. There’s no news yet on whether he intends to decorate his new home with diamond-encrusted decor, but we’re hopeful.
The 96-story structure boasts 30,000 square feet of amenities, including a lounge, outdoor garden, private restaurant, 75-foot indoor swimming pool, and in-suite dining and room service, in case you don’t want to leave your apartment. And, of course, a fitness facility with a bath, sauna, steam, and massage rooms—we’ve heard calculating carats for a living can be as difficult as, well, a diamond.
Jacob Arabo Explained
Arabo has also starred in Explained – Diamonds, a 2019 Vox and Netflix documentary TV show. Explained is an American documentary television series available on the Netflix streaming service. The show is produced by Vox Media and is modeled after Vox’s previous YouTube video series, which had a similar format. The show’s episodes lasted from 16 and 24 minutes, and each focused on a different theme. Each episode has a different guest narrator. The series premiered on Netflix on May 23, 2018, with new episodes released weekly. The second season premiered on September 26, 2019 and the third season on July 16, 2021.
Jacob Arabo The Real Housewives of New York City
In 2023, Arabo appeared on episode 6 of the 14th season of the reality show The Real Housewives of New York City, where she was seen consulting cast member Erin Lichy on her jewelry. The Real Housewives of New York City, abbreviated RHONY, is an American reality television series that premiered on Bravo on March 4, 2008. It is the second installment of The Real Housewives franchise, with fourteen seasons that focus on the personal and professional lives of several women living in New York City. The show’s success spawned three spin-offs: Bethenny Ever After, Bethenny & Fredrik, and Luann & Sonja: Welcome to Crappie Lake.
Jacob Arabo Career
As a young person, Jacob Arabo was working for a customary gems maker in the New York City Precious stone Locale on 47th Road and making his own gems in his family’s home around evening time. Ultimately, he moved his stopgap studio to a super durable plant in the Jewel Locale. Right now, Arabo spent significant time in gold gems, making his own plans. In any case, he was all the while working for clients inside the adornments business by creating conventional gems for merchants and retailers.
In 1986, at 21 years old, Arabo established the retail adornments organization Jewel Quasar, carrying on with work under the Jacob and Co brand making his own plans for private clients. By the mid 1990s, he had laid out his own stand in New York’s Jewel Locale. His creative pieces grabbed the eye of the late rapper Famous B.I.G., who gave him the moniker “Jacob the Gem specialist,” and acquainted him with his amusement companions. The moniker has additionally showed up in rap melodies by Jay-Z, Nas and different rappers.
Arabo began teaming up with performers on specially crafts. During the 1990s, he was quite possibly the earliest gem dealer to make large precious stone gems for men, a pattern that is standard today.
Hip-jump craftsmen who were Arabo’s clients included Sean “Puffy” Brushes, Business Markie, Jay-Z, Drake, 50 Penny, and Enormous Sean. Different clients incorporate different noticeable performers and competitors, including Madonna, Rihanna, Pharrell, Elton John, David and Victoria Beckham, Jennifer Lopez, Salma Hayek, Sofia Vergara, Michael Jordan, Mariah Carey and Canelo Álvarez.
Arabo made a quartz watch assortment called the Five Time Region in 2002, which joined strong essential tones with different time region innovation and was worn by all kinds of people. Naomi Campbell, Bono, Angela Bassett, Derek Jeter, and different famous people have worn watches from the assortment. One of the highlights of the Five Time Region Watch was its compatible bezel, wherein a tempered steel bezel can be supplanted with a bezel cleared with precious stones. The watch was profoundly adaptable, and Arabo made a few variants of the watch for his clients, including Leonardo DiCaprio for his foundation and planner Virgil Abloh.
Arabo moved from the Jewel Locale to a mine-propelled leader store at 57th Road and Park Ave in 2004. Arabo was captured in 2006 on allegations that he and others contrived to wash about $270 million in drug benefits for the Dark Mafia Family. These charges were at last dropped and in June 2008 Arabo confessed to a lesser allegation of misrepresenting records and giving bogus explanations as a feature of an arrangement he hit with government examiners. The appointed authority condemned Arabo to a 2.5 year sentence in bureaucratic jail and requested him to pay a $50,000 fine and an extra $2,000,000 as relinquishment to the US government.
In 2007, Arabo established Jacob and Co. SA in Geneva, Switzerland, and presented his most memorable high-watchmaking watch, the Quenttin. It was the principal watch to have a vertical tourbillon and a 31-day power save, at the time the world’s longest power hold. In October 2007, Arabo was charged for misrepresenting records and deceiving examiners. In June 2008, he was condemned to 30 months and delivered in April 2010.
In 2013, Arabo made the Legendary SF24, a double cross zone watch that utilizes a licensed completely mechanical split-fold framework to show the time in 24 urban communities all over the planet. Propelled by the old split-fold load up at air terminal and train terminals, it was whenever a framework first like this was utilized in a mechanical watch.
Arabo’s organization Jacob and Co. delivered the heavenly themed Astronomia Tourbillon in 2013, at first presented at Baselworld 2013. By 2016, there were 99 emphasess of the Astronomia Tourbillon. In 2019, Arabo was welcome to make the crown and act as an appointed authority for the Miss World America 2019 expo. The crown was created of 18k white gold and decorated with 164 carats of Colombian emeralds and 95 carats of precious stones.
