BY MICHAEL THOMPSON
BULGARI
COMPLICATES
SERPENTI
At LVMH Watch Week in Dubai, the Italo-Swiss
watchmaker and jeweler added a tourbillon
to Serpenti and debuted the first steel Octo
Finissimo Automatic.
Bulgari places a clear sapphire
bridge on the Serpenti Seduttori
Tourbillon to insure a view of the
new tourbillon.
in white gold with a full diamond bracelet. Prices start at $78,000.
with a colorful peacock feather dial.
MORE FOR WOMEN OCTO REPEATER IN GOLD
While the tourbillon model highlights Bulgari’s 2020 offerings for ladies,
look for at least five new Serpenti Seduttori watches in 2020, including at
least one with diamonds and another that combines steel with rose gold
and with white gold.
Also for women, Bulgari’s Divas’ Dream collection expands this year
with a Divas’ Dream Minute Repeater Malachite, featuring a beautifully
striped malachite green dial surrounded by a diamond-set bezel. You
may recall that this GPHG-award winning design is currently the thinnest
minute repeater made for a women’s watch.
Bulgari also adds two new gold Divas’ Dream watches without the
repeater. One features a rich blue lapis lazuli dial while another is finished Another highlight among Bulgari’s Dubai 2020 debuts is the new Octo
Finissimo Minute Repeater in rose gold, powered by the ultra-thin
(3.12mm) manual-wind minute repeater movement, the BVL 362 caliber.
This all-new version ($170,000) of the much-heralded record-breaking
titanium-cased Octo Finissimo Minute Repeater from 2016 now glows on
the wrist with an impressive sandblasted rose gold case.
As seen on earlier models, this rose gold edition retains the dial’s cutout
hour and small seconds markers that serve to amplify the repeater’s
chime. The pusher that activates the striking mechanism (at 9 o’clock) is
wisely fitted with an “all or nothing” safety device. When fully wound, the
movement delivers a 42-hour power reserve.
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