Literally as this collector’s edition four hand signed Japanese architect Kazuyo Sejima reinterprets the Octo with a magnetic aura of polished stainless steel.
Evolving without tiring is the challenging and desirable path that very few brands manage to make their watches. And that is what weaves the fabric of the icon. As for Bulgari’s Octo series, the stake is all the more remarkable because no one at the time expected a watch in this category from a house with a jewelry heritage.
Ten years from now, it will not only be able to impose its racy design into the coveted category of so-called “sport chic” watches, but will also first astonish the watchmaking world with no less than eight world records for thinness. watch. Not even to mention the many awards, recognition and curiosity of an uncompromising environment such as Laurent Picciotto, the founder of Chronopassion, who, after selling his watch collection at auction, has now become passionate about Octo Finissimo.
double vision
After serving up much of its vintage at the Watches & Wonders show last March, Bulgari sprung a surprise by unveiling a high-end, completely unexpected vintage at the Geneva Watch Days in late August. If you had to choose only one star in the middle of this wave, thinking about the theme of contrast, it would certainly be the line of purity attached to Octo Finissimo Sejima.
Or a limited edition designed with the Japanese architect Kazuyo Sejima (a designer in France, specifically the designer of the Louvre Museum of the Lens) that matches the mirror effect of polished stainless steel to perfection. All are punctuated with raised metal points that seem to erase the outline of the hands to give this raw material strength and character.
Source: Le Figaro
