Entering a New Dimension with the Bulgari Octo Finissimo Ultra
This article was originally published in the May/June 2022 Issue of the WatchTime print magazine.
In 2022, Bulgari celebrated the 10th anniversary of its award-winning Octo collection with the Italian maison?s eighth world record, the thinnest mechanical watch ever produced. Meet the 1.8-mm thick Octo Finissimo Ultra.
1.80 mm. One point eight millimeters for the watch as a whole, from the caseback to the top of the sapphire crystal. That?s exactly half of an ETA 2829-A2 automatic movement. More importantly, 1.8 mm means that the Octo Finissimo Ultra (Ref. 103611) is an impressive 0.2 mm thinner than the previous record holder, the Piaget Altiplano Ultimate Concept watch from 2018. ??Can we do it"? No sooner was the question asked three years ago than our teams answered, ?How are we going to do it"?,? recalls Antoine Pin, Managing Director of the Bulgari Watch Division. ?This ability to meet challenges is embedded in the brand’s DNA.? And he adds, ?As for the word ?ultra,? it expresses this desire to go beyond the limits, to play with extremes ? an idea that we love in-house!?
To create the world?s thinnest, and at the same time still reliable and robust mechanical watch, the designers, engineers and watchmakers had to start from scratch. Fabrizio Buonamassa Stigliani, Bulgari?s Product Creation Executive Director, explained, ?The challenge of this eighth record was the most difficult to overcome, since we had to break the rules no...
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