Bulgari and Maserati ? two Italian luxury brands which first teamed up in 2012 to produce a special-edition chronograph watch ? have partnered once again to create two new Octo Maserati timepieces, the GranSport and GranLusso, which were unveiled today alongside new Maserati cars at the 2017 Frankfurt Motor Show. Read on for more details and live photos.

The watches are distinguished from previous Bulgari Maserati timepieces by their unusual dial design, inspired by the rev counters on a Maserati dashboard and featuring a combination of retrograde minutes and jumping hours to indicate the time. While the colors, materials, and fonts used are evocative of Maserati style codes, the watches are also distinctly members of Bulgari’s flagship Octo collection, with the multifaceted, octagonally structured case, influenced by Italian architecture, which has become so strongly associated with this Swiss-made, Italian-rooted watch brand. Beneath the round hour display window at 3 o’clock, you’ll find the famed Maserati trident emblem, a historic reference to the statue of Neptune in Bologna, where the automotive company was founded in 1914. The topstitched leather straps are also a nod to the luxurious upholstery in a Maserati’s interior.
Inside the watch’s 41.5-mm Octo case, and powering the watch’s jumping hours/retrograde minutes timekeeping combo is Bulgari’s in-house caliber BVL 262, a self-winding 33-jewel movement with a 42-hour po...