BULGARI Watches4982221
Ours is definitely an chronilogical age of transparency. This philosophy of information and has driven Bulgari to understand more about a new dimension which the most recent expression, named Octo Tourbillon Sapphire, epitomises searching for balance and beauty.
This spectacular creation offers a new interpretation from the formal purity of the octagon. The eight-sided geometrical figure, conveying loads of cultural and spiritual symbolism, continues to be viewed as an origin of perfection since time immemorial, in Antiquity and in the Renaissance. From the wake of varied formal variations on the Octo theme, it reinvents itself in 2017 using this type of new case distinguished by its modern, urban proportions.
The brand new case, unveiled with all the Octo Roma line, is of course inspired by the motifs adorning the Basilica of Maxentius. The Roman roots of Bulgari, a jewellery Maison endowed with skills admired for more than 130 years, is not concealed. As always at Bulgari, there isn't any question of separating form and substance. The exercise of modelling shapes hoping ideal equilibrium in design are not undertaken for own sake, but always as a method of matching functionality. Likewise, efficiency is just not sought for the sake of mere pride in performance. Things are all first and foremost about balance and sweetness.
The formal purity on this exceptional chronograph is now focused on expressing a brand new watchmaking vision: allowing light to flood in to be able to showcase mechanism via a beautifully modernistic and innovative approach.
An authentic and spectacular architecture
With its transparent case-back and dial, this spectacular 44mm-diameter timepiece created from titanium using a black Diamond Like Carbon (D.L.C.) treatment, offers enthusiasts an entire visual immersion into its inner workings. The mechanical manual-winding flying tourbillon movement, Caliber BVL 206, appears at the heart in the watch with 11 black DLC-coated bridges adorned with green bars of ITR2 - a single composite material laden with carbon nanotube particles plus a hardness similar to steel - and SLN, a high-tech luminescent material enabling the timepiece to provide off in the evening all of the light it's received in the daytime. The bridges forming the hour-markers are a wholly original feature. They therefore serve to bear and support the movement available, while becoming functional elements for reading off of the hours and minutes, along with decorative features adding to the singular identity in the watch. Additionally, the Octo Tourbillon Sapphire boasts a clever development in relation to its time-setting operations: pressing the crown displays a red dot in a tiny aperture at 3 o’clock, thereby signalling that the time could be set by simply turning the crown. Once the operation is complete, another press causes the dot to completely disappear and locks the time-setting mechanism.
On the cheap informed connoisseurs, this model thus even offers a classy expression of horological excellence, seemingly visiting life within the gaze of the individual observing it, thanks to the regular and interesting beat with the tourbillon. Its daring and luminous decoration also can make it an especially fascinating instance of contemporary design. Attired inside a highly on-trend, resolutely Italian shade of black, this watch is secured for the wrist by a matching black alligator leather strap which has a folding clasp, with a classic appearance concealing a rubber lining that ensures perfect comfort around the wrist.
With the Octo Tourbillon Sapphire, Bulgari is continuous its personal definition of horological excellence. A definition characterised by perfect transparency.
