Bulgari has launched an exclusive Octo Finissimo edition for the U.S. (Ref. 103856). Limited to only 50 pieces, the stainless steel watch with integrated bracelet has a diameter of 40mm and is just 6.4mm thick. This version is equipped with a sunray-finished dial in one of the favorite colors of the Tuscan Renaissance painter Jacopo da Pontormo (May 24, 1494 – January 2, 1557). Fabrizio Buonamassa Stigliani, Executive Director of Product Creation, Bulgari Horlogerie:

“The Octo Finissimo opens an almost limitless universe of creation. Its design is both so geometric and rigorous, and at the same time so versatile that we can play with a multitude of personalities. Associated with color, it can express ideas, emotions or abstract concepts. Here, the particular metallic salmon tone ? it is extremely rare in Bulgari watchmaking and has only been used once before ? draws its inspiration not from the usual vintage aesthetic prized by collectors, but from the very roots of Italian art, that of the 16th century, and more precisely from a disruptive movement of the time, called Mannerism, which marked my own training as a designer. Hence, my choice for this color symbolizes an experimental and disruptive artistic approach, like that of the mannerist current led by deeply anti-conformist painters, first among them Jacopo da Pontormo.?
The U.S. holds a special place in the history of Bulgari: It was in the early 1970s that the Roman jeweler crossed the Atlantic....