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Bulgari celebrates its 140th anniversary with “Fuochi D’Artificio,” a collection of the most stunning timepieces reflecting the joyful atmosphere of a starry Italian summer night, lit up by vivid fireworks. Radiant motives, vibrating with a burst of colors, are obtained through the daring combination of precious and color gemstones, matched with different metals, from pink and white gold to titanium and platinum. Flexibility and dynamism are infused into the watches, all equipped with the Piccolissimo mechanical micro round movement: the smallest round mechanical movement on the market.
Brilliance and sophistication find a perfect balance in the Fuochi D’Artificio High-Jewellery Manchette, which involved more than 1,4500 hours of craftsmanship. Portraying an explosion of bright fireworks in the sky, this irresistibly precious watch features a semi-rigid cuff in rose gold and blue titanium which enhances the colour of the sky and contrasts with the dark onyx. A sweeping variety of vivid gemstones are carefully selected and combined with the most sparkling diamonds and hand-cut and polished onyx inserts.
From a central round-cut ruby, an explosion of pear-shaped colourful gemstones and round-cut diamonds radiates across the Fuochi D’Artificio High-Jewellery Petite Watch, a secret watch with a semi-flexible cuff. Expressing its utterly daring spirit, Bulgari combines precious gems with inserts of aventurine.
Bulgari Watch Division Creative Director Fabrizio Buonamassa Stigliani wanted to celebrate eternity with a mythological animal, a breathtaking work of art that took over 3,000 hours to complete. With the absolute masterpiece Fenice High-Jewellery Watch, the Roman Maison reaffirms its stature as the master of colourful gemstones. Bulgari selected over 160 carats of strikingly beautiful stones, including blue, pink and purple sapphires, amethysts, rubies, pink garnets, tanzanites, iolites, aquamarines and diamonds, to create an incredible gradient effect in a colour palette ranging from blue and red to pink and purple. This secret watch reveals an exceptionally rare central 9.78-carat Paraiba tourmaline concealing the watch dial. The delicate and dashing mobile feathering embraces the wrist thanks to a unique openwork construction allowing the bird to spread its wings and fly away.
The glorious Phoenix with its prominent extended wings, numbed during re-birth, is also the protagonist of the sensational Fenice Octo Roma Secret Watch. This genderless pair watch is adorned with brilliant-cut blue, purple and pink sapphires, as well as aquamarines, rubies and amethysts. White and pink gold spikes enrich this stunning creation, which features a blue alligator strap and houses an ultra-thin manual winding mechanical movement with flying tourbillon.
Serpenti Misteriosi Chimera refers to the divine creature, initially described in Homer’s Iliad. A sinuous white gold snake with diamond and emerald scales wraps around the wrist culminating in two heads: one of a snake, one of a lion – the latter inspired by a Bulgari archival piece dating back to the Fifties.
The Serpenti Misteriosi Dragone is a nod to the historic model created for Elizabeth Taylor when she played Cleopatra in Rome’s Cinecittà studios in 1962. Just like the 1960s heritage timepiece, the snake’s body is made with a tubolari bracelet, and its head is set with a wave of splendid baguette-cut diamonds.
June 20, 2024