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Bulgari celebrates the tenth anniversary of its Octo Finissimo collection with an eighth world record by creating the thinnest mechanical watch. The Octo Finissimo Ultra measures just 1.8mm from front to back, beating the previous record-holder, the Piaget Altiplano Ultimate Concept, by 0.2mm.
Like Piaget, the concept of the case and movement remain abandoned in favor of building the 170-component manually-wound movement into the case back of the 40mm sandblasted titanium case. The case back had to be fabricated from tungsten carbide to stop the watch from bending when worn.
Bulgari spent the last three years developing not only the watch but also designing an integrated bracelet and folding clasp of matching dimensions. With this piece, Bulgari celebrates ten years of its Octo with the eighth watchmaking world record for thinness.
The Octo Finissimo Ultra also features a 50-hour power reserve using a large mainspring barrel, something ultra-fine watchmaking often struggles along. Instead of a regular crown, Bulgari has installed two thumbwheels, one for winding and one for setting the time.
A QR code etched into the mainspring cylinders of the first 10 Octo Finissimo Ultra watches provides a link to unique NFT works of art that also help to authenticate the watches.
This extraordinary benchmark that we are setting today with Octo Finissimo Ultra is, indeed, for me and all the teams, a seemingly impossible dream come true, says Bulgari CEO Jean-Christophe Babin. One that guarantees that Bulgari will forever remain acknowledged as a company that has written some of the best pages in Swiss watchmaking history. And the fact that this is an Italian house makes us particularly proud.
The Octo Finissimo Ultra is limited to 10 pieces and is available now through Bulgari.
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