On the just lately concluded Geneva Watch Days timepieces honest, founding model Bulgari should have been feeling considerably upbeat, particularly given the truth that its Octo Finissimo CarbonGold fashions are making the information once more. Bulgari CEO Jean-Christophe Babin confirmed off the brand new watches on a Zoom name with us, together with the superb Serpenti Misteriosi excessive jewelry watch. The latter watch deserves its personal area and we might but get to it. The mannequin definitely options prominently in our upcoming interview with Babin.

For this story although, we wish to convey you the information about two new Octo Finissimo CarbonGold watches, the Automated and Perpetual Calendar. Whereas the Octo Finissimo has all the time been recognized for its ultra-thin actions and instances, this time it’s grabbing headlines for materials innovation. Because the identify CarbonGold suggests, the instances of each watches are in a mixture of carbon and gold.  

Carbon composite instances are humdrum affairs you would possibly say, however for the Bulgari Octo Finissimo, it truly is a unique story. The reason being the very slim construction, with the automated and the perpetual calendar measuring 6.9mm and seven.6mm thick respectively. Bulgari resolved this engineering problem with some type of titanium chassis to offer structural integrity; this one isn’t within the specs and was famous within the Monochrome report on the watches. On condition that titanium is extra elastic than metal, it brings a level of flexibility to instances that is perhaps robust however brittle. Bulgari confirmed the presence of this chassis on the sidelines of our dialog with Babin.  

These of you acquainted with Bulgari’s penchant for materials innovation will recall that the model debuted a mixture of carbon and gold in 1993, to not point out its early experiments with aluminium and even magnesium. Within the new CarbonGold Automated and Perpetual Calendar watches, the watches are primarily cased in a carbon composite, with rose gold that includes solely within the crowns. Certainly, the bracelet and dial are additionally in carbon. The fingers and markers are gold-coloured, almost certainly plated, and the screws securing the exhibition case again are in gold, bringing us to some really quirky parts of the watches.  

Each the automated calibre BVL138 and the perpetual calendar calibre BVL305 characteristic spectacular rose gold bridges paired with platinum micro-rotors, the latter of that are rose gold-plated. That is fairly audacious and troublesome to parse, so we must wait to see the watches in particular person. The data at current is incomplete and blended, with some media even reporting that the fingers and markers are in full gold when they’re spelled out as gold-coloured.  

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