?A world record was never our primary goal.?
Bulgari set a new world record at Baselworld 2018 with the thinnest automatic watch in the world, and also introduced another sensational watch with its Minute Repeater in a carbon case. CEO Jean-Christophe Babin explains how this came about in an interview with Rüdiger Bucher, editor-in-chief of WatchTime’s German sister magazine Chronos and International Editorial Director of Ebner Publishing.
Jean-Christophe Babin, CEO of Bulgari
With your introduction of the Octo Finissimo Tourbillon Automatic as the world’s thinnest automatic watch, you regained the world record that Piaget had taken away from you just two months before. How did all this come about"

Breaking world records was never our primary goal. But the automatic watch was an exception. Piaget had just taken away the world record we had won in 2017, and we wanted to get it back as quickly as possible. But generally speaking, breaking world records is not a direction we give to our developers. Our most important goal for our thin watches is to achieve the next level of elegance. And if this results in a new record, that’s even better! We continue to build on the unique look that we first introduced in 2016 with the Octo Finissimo Minute Repeater in titanium, which combines the octagonal shape, a super-thin case, and special materials. Developing a super-thin automatic tourbillon with a peripheral oscillating weight was already in the works, even ...