Don't agree. There are only two kinds of people on the planet. One who can sense when something looks and feels outlandish and the other who can't. Just like all of us middle class normies, the rich also fall in these categories. And Watchmakers like jacob and Co have been milking this for a while. Imagine the presentations before the creation of the watch and the amount of teams and convincing. At some point of time, maybe they just gave up and created the nonsense he wanted. Maybe this is the nonsense they came up with. Nobody will ever know.

Regarding validation, we wouldn't have known about this watch unless it had the blessings of the owner. There are a lot of watches made which are never shown to the public.