Watch for Man:
"The power of Italian style" is the slogan of Bvlgari's Octo range of men's watches. And anyone who has worn an Octo on their wrist will agree that these watches give off an aura of power that any self-respecting Roman emperor would have been proud to wield. So, just in time for Christmas, we present a list of the newcomers to the Octo cohort. Bvlgari's Octo watch hit the scene with a bang in 2012 thanks to its unusual silhouette of a circle within a square.
The octagonal shape was inspired by the ceiling vault of the Basilica of Maxentius in the Roman Forum, but that's only half the story. Lightening the burden of its historical legacy, the eight corners of the box have been cut off and each line reduced to a minimum. As Fabrizio Buonamassa, artistic director of Bvlgari, sketched and modeled, a taut and refined form with 110 facets emerged. Every angle, corner, and plane of his architecture has been meticulously honed to almost sculptural perfection.
But the Octo story isn't just one of beautiful profiles and graceful angles. This watch has a great bone structure and a brain to match. The Octo has broken world records for the thinnest manually wound tourbillon, minute repeater, automatic movement, and automatic tourbillon. This year alone, two of the Bvlgari's Octo watch models were finalists at the GPHG, the Oscars of the Watchmaking World, as well as winning 35 different awards around the world for both design and watchmaking mastery, which is no small thing to do. a company that, for the best part of its 135-year history, has been best known for its opulent jewelry.
The most astonishing Octo is the Grande Sonnerie Quantième Perpétuel (above), which took a year to make and is Bvlgari's most complex watch creation to date. As its highly descriptive name suggests, it combines a large striking mechanism, which chimes the hours and minutes with four miniature hammers, and a perpetual calendar of Machiavellian complexity that indicates the day, date, month and year along with the phase of the moon. . The mechanism is regulated by a tourbillon, the final cherry on top of this great complication, of which only one will be made.
For those with classical inclinations, Bvlgari's Octo watch Monete (above) allows you to read the time by opening a box lid with an ancient Roman coin of Emperor Constantinus Augustus. The dial offers a view of the skeletonized operation of its mechanics and the constant hum of its tourbillon. Baguette-cut diamonds, considered the most masculine of all flares, adorn the rose gold case, and what's more, the watch can be worn both on the wrist and on a pocket watch with a beautiful gold chain.
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