Octo Finissimo Skeleton 8 Days

Octo Finissimo: Contrasts at Play in Three New Creations

Bvlgari pushes the Octo Finissimo concept further with three bold new interpretations that showcase the Maison’s mastery of both style and substance. After setting 10 world records for thinness in just 11 years, Octo Finissimo returns with fresh creative momentum. Mechanical complications take centre stage: an ultra-thin tourbillon with a rare marble dial, a perpetual calendar rendered in rose gold, and a new skeleton model boasting an eight-day power reserve. Once again, Italian flair meets Swiss precision in a collection that continues to shape the future of contemporary watchmaking.

Octo Finissimo: An Innovative Watchmaking Concept

For over a decade, Octo Finissimo has been pushing the boundaries of ultra-thin watchmaking. With ten world records for thinness and more than sixty international awards to its name, the remarkable Octo Finissimo story is about far more than a study in slim profiles. Achieving such feats – especially while integrating some of high watchmaking’s most emblematic complications – requires rethinking the entire movement architecture from the ground up, every time. Flying tourbillon, perpetual calendar, minute repeater, even the extreme miniaturization of automatic calibres: through Octo Finissimo, Bvlgari fuses classical expertise with a forward-looking vision of watchmaking.

Jean-Christophe Babin, CEO of LVMH Watches and CEO of Bvlgari, puts it this way: “Octo Finissimo wasn’t conceived simply to be thin – it was designed as a watch and a movement with a case built for extreme spatial efficiency. For the past eleven years, our research has focused first and foremost on density – on how to use space as efficiently as possible. The thinness we achieve, along with unmatched advances in integrating components into the structure of the watch itself, stems from that broader ambition. It’s a holistic concept, one that defines the entire Octo Finissimo line and that we take to its extreme with the Octo Finissimo Ultra limited editions. While they break records, the Ultras also serve as idea labs – experiments whose innovations flow directly back into the Octo Finissimo collection.”

This spring, Bvlgari is giving form to that vision with three spectacular new models.

Octo Finissimo Marble Tourbillon: Capturing the Essence of Roman Majesty

The tourbillon continues to fascinate aficionados of fine watchmaking and high complications. A precision mechanism designed to regulate a watch’s accuracy, it is both technically complex and visually mesmerizing. Sometimes referred to as a “rotating cage,” the concept of the tourbillon was invented in the 19th century and remains a rarefied art, even today mastered to perfection by only a few watchmakers. Its purpose is to counteract the effects of gravity on a mechanical movement. To correct disturbances in the resonator’s isochronism, master watchmakers must align the balance spring’s centre of gravity with the centre of a rotating structure. A complex feat in itself, it is made all the more demanding when the entire system must be housed within an ultra-thin case. This challenge led to Bvlgari’s very first world record for thinness, achieved in 2014 with the Octo Finissimo Manual, powered by the hand-wound BVL 268 calibre measuring just 1.95 mm in height.

At Watches and Wonders Geneva this year, Bvlgari revealed the Octo Finissimo Ultra Tourbillon, pushing boundaries even further. With a thickness of just 1.85 mm – no more than that of a 1 Swiss franc coin – it is now the thinnest tourbillon watch ever created. A triumph of engineering in the service of aesthetics. For Bvlgari, innovation isn’t an end in itself: it must be intrinsically tied to an expression of beauty, a sense of style, and ultimately the creation of a watch that brings joy, is eminently wearable and a jewel in its own right.

Building on that achievement, the new Octo Finissimo Marble Tourbillon carries forward the same dual commitment to technical excellence and refined aesthetics. Its yellow gold case is just 4.85 mm thick for a 40 mm diameter, acquiring an aura all its own through the green marble dial. The stone, sourced from Italy’s finest quarries. Long associated with the architecture and symbolism of the Eternal City, “Verde Alpi” marble brings color, brilliance, permanence, and Roman character. Framed in gold and paired with a green leather strap, the dial makes a bold visual statement rooted in heritage and material culture.

While marble is robust in its natural state, it becomes exceptionally fragile when cut into thin layers. A watch dial is already an extremely slim component – and to meet the demands of the Octo Finissimo case, it had to be thinner still. At just 0.8 mm thick, the marble dial stands as a striking demonstration of Bvlgari’s material savoir-faire – on par with the tourbillon it so elegantly frames. This rare creation is powered by the hand-wound BVL 268 manufacture movement, offering a 52-hour power reserve in a calibre just 1.95 mm thick. Dizzying refinement, at the meeting point of matter and mastery.

Octo Finissimo Perpetual Calendar : Eternity in Gold and Finesse

The new Octo Finissimo Perpetual Calendar offers a contemporary take on one of watchmaking’s most emblematic mechanisms. Highly prized by connoisseurs of high complications, it displays the date, day, and month without needing to be reset – and even accounts for leap years. Requiring a mechanical memory spanning 1,461 days, it also remains one of the most complex and demanding complications to develop. Seasoned collectors will remember 2021 as a key milestone in the Octo Finissimo story –the year Bvlgari introduced its first perpetual calendar, in a titanium case. It marked the collection’s seventh world record for thinness – and the slimmest perpetual calendar ever made. That same year, it earned one of the industry’s highest honours: the Aiguille d’Or at the Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève.

With its sleek silhouette, complex movement, and refined execution, the new Octo Finissimo Perpetual Calendar asserts its singular presence with a microbead-frosted rose gold case just 5.80 mm thick across a 40 mm diameter. Here, Bvlgari elevates the aura of the perpetual calendar with its distinctive jeweller's craftsmanship and sensibility. Gold – perhaps the most symbolically charged of all precious materials – has embodied permanence and desirability since time immemorial. It transcends time, outlasting any fashion trend, and continues to stir the imagination.

Daringly unconventional for a watch of this kind, the microbead-frosted finish also lends a contemporary edge to the perpetual calendar. It echoes the monochromatic design language championed by Fabrizio Buonamassa Stigliani, Bvlgari’s Director of Watch Design, and first explored to striking effect in the Octo Finissimo Rose Gold Sandblasted in 2022, and later in the Octo Finissimo Minute Repeater. This year, through this refined treatment of gold, Bvlgari brings that aesthetic language to the calendar complication – infusing it with a new and enduring elegance.

Octo Finissimo Skeleton 8 Days: The Art and Magic of Contrasts

Light needs shadow to reveal its beauty. Playing with contrasts and the ways in which they reverberate, Bvlgari reimagines the captivating allure of the openworked Octo Finissimo Skeleton. After previous editions in rose gold and titanium, this new iteration premieres rose gold hands and hour markers set within the striking composition of a black DLC-coated titanium case. Like a creation of black lace, the BVL 199SK manufacture calibre reveals all its secrets through the art of skeletonisation.

This hand-wound movement proudly displays its finesse, with a thickness of just 2.50 mm. Since its debut in 2022, it has also stood out for its exceptional power reserve of 192 hours – that is, a full eight days. Here, the performance is underscored with rose gold graduations along with the inscription “Eight Days” beneath the Bvlgari signature positioned at 3 o’clock.

Versatile, lightweight, and suited to every situation, the black rubber strap adds a further touch of modern sportiness. Here, design and technology come together to create an ultra-thin timepiece with a presence that is both powerful and unmistakably contemporary. Because strength means nothing without finesse.

With these three extraordinary new interpretations of the Octo Finissimo concept, Bvlgari once again demonstrates its flair for combining modern haute horlogerie with bold material craftsmanship. Each movement and its external architecture form a seamless and unexpected whole. Surprise is always part of the equation. Here, as ever, innovation is dressed in elegance – and finesse.