Staying true to its traditions of setting new horological world records, Italian jewelry and watchmaking house Bulgari has revealed the thinnest mechanical watch ever created. Behold the Octo Finissimo Ultra, a mechanical wristwatch that?s just as thin as two credit cards stacked together closely. Absolutely crazy! It?s the brand?s eighth record-breaking watch in eight years. Every year we think Bulgari has reached the limit of making the thinnest possible timepiece and they can?t go any further. But here we are with a mechanical watch that measures just 1.8 mm thick. Previously, the record was held by the Piaget Altiplano Ultimate Concept watch that debuted back in 2018 with a thickness of 2mm.

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To create the world?s thinnest mechanical watch, Bulgari had to break all the traditional rules of watchmaking. Bulgari has filed a total of eight patent applications for the watch. All the components of the movement powering the watch had to be compressed into one single plane that seamlessly merges with the case. The brand?s workshops in Vallée de Joux and Neuchâtel worked closely with movement development specialist Concepto in La Chaux-de-Fonds, and it took no less than three years to create the masterpiece. To make it as thin...