iW Magazine Summer 2019 | Page 113

Bulgari Serpenti Seduttori components, showing gold bracelet and watch case. WHAT DESIGN ELEMENTS WERE CONSIDERED WHEN CREATING THE NEW SERPENTI SEDUTTORI COLLECTION? Bulgari designers adapted existing gold jewelry to create the Serpenti Seduttori bracelet. Often when you launch a new collection you first need to establish that it is really a Bulgari. With Lucea, for example, if you remove the logo it’s without question a Bulgari watch. The bracelet in new Serpenti Seduttori is direct from our jewelry. It is modern on one hand because of the construction of the bracelet, but at the same time it looks classical. Seduttori, by the way, means seduction, and this is also the name of a Bulgari jewelry collection. This new watch borrows from our jewelry collections with its bracelet and it borrows from our watchmaking with its snakehead. The collection focuses on the seduction of gold. Plus the bracelet is more casually worn when compared to a wraparound strap. We see no direct competition between Serpenti Seduttori and Serpenti Tubogas. Tubogas is steel and gold and timeless, whereas Seduttori is gold and meant to be only gold. Plain gold Seduttori starts at $22,000 and with a full pave diamond version it’s $90,000. SUMMER 2019 | INTERNATIONAL WATCH | 113