Bulgari Presents The Octo Finissimo With A Rare New Dial In Tuscan Copper

By Gabriel Pessoa March 15, 2023

The latest Bulgari Octo Finisimo employs an all-new metallic ‘copper’ tone dial which provides an entirely unexpected (yet welcome) aesthetic.

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The Octo Finissimo Automatic was introduced to the market back in 2017 and became the third timepiece within the Octo Finissimo Saga to earn a world record in terms of thinness. Bulgari is set to release this latest iteration of their iconic Octo Finissimo in April of 2023.

Inspired by the supernatural light present in the paintings of an Italian artist of the 16^thcentury Florentine school, Bulgari has distilled a singular tonality to adorn the dial of this new edition. This unusual and unique color, paradoxically both soft and metallic, is sure to captivate watch enthusiasts and collectors alike.

Tuscany bore witness to the birth of a new artistic movement which challenged the traditional vision of the renaissance in the 16th century. One of the main characters of this movement was Jacopo da Pontormo, an Italian painter of the Florentine school, who created vibrant, luminous and boldly disruptive tones that deviated from the harmonious classicism, the discreet color palettes and ordered compositions that defined the serene naturalism of the Italian High Renaissance.

The almost metallic-seeming and dazzling colors he used, such as blues, greens, yellows, reds and pinks, caught the attention of Fabrizio Buonamassa Stigliani, Product Creation Executive Director at Bulgari Horlogerie, inspiring him to create a watch with the new color that will be available on the American market in 2023.

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“The Octo Finissimo opens an almost limitless universe of creation,” said Fabrizio Buonamassa Stigliani, Executive Director of Product Creation for Bulgari Horlogerie.

“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 16^th century, and more precisely from a disruptive movement of the time, called Mannerism, which marked my own training as a designer.”

Stigliani continued, “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.”

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True to Bulgari’s codes, the Octo Finissimo perpetuates the great house’s DNA: a bold aesthetic and cutting-edge technology in a case of extreme finesse.