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It draws on its mixed background to provide a structured measurement and display of passing time, the better to appreciate, save, or notice it.\u00a0\u00a0<\/div><div><br \/><\/div><div>The <em>Octo<\/em>\u2019s nature derives from its roots. The offspring of a marriage of Italian creativity and Swiss precision, it borrows the best of both worlds to take the middle road between sensuousness and exactness.\u00a0\u00a0<\/div><div><br \/><\/div><div>The <em>Octo<\/em> has become a mainstay in the watch collections of Bvlgari, a house known far and wide for its daring and fine-jewellery expertise. The watch is both a precision timepiece and an architectural creation that pays lively tribute to Italian creative genius.\u00a0\u00a0<\/div><div><br \/><\/div><div>Italian architecture channels the art of designing spaces and structures to make life pleasant; it achieves this by wedding utility to beauty, rationalism to aestheticism and functionality to pleasure. It laid the foundations for modern urban civilisations. Leonardo da Vinci, that prolific inventor who was so ahead of his time, let the\u00a0 technology of his day guide him. Aided by a scholarly culture in which passion had its\u00a0 rightful place, he invented the most visionary of solutions. His research enabled him to combine efficiency with beauty. Geometry and precision gave birth to perfection. The <em>Octo<\/em> watch is true to these teachings, without neglecting one of the ingredients of seduction: surprise.\u00a0<\/div><div><div><br \/><\/div><div>One yet many, accurate yet sensuous, the <em>Octo<\/em> plays on paradoxes and contrasts to better show off its various facets. It appears as a built edifice, with two sides.<\/div><div><br \/><\/div><div>One side is a finely fashioned case with a hundred and ten different facets for a thousand surprises. So the eye wanders over the ridges and flat surfaces, discovering how the material was worked, cut from a solid piece, the sparkling and more satiny surfaces. Metal in all its glory. Whether gold or steel, the material expresses and reveals itself. In the heart of the Swiss Jura, the Saignel\u00e9gier craftsmen who make the cases and bracelets carry on tradition, repeating the age-old meticulous, precise motions to create the\u00a0<em>Octo<\/em>\u2019s casing, a <em>tour de force<\/em> of both design and manufacture. Its remarkable shape is unlike any other in the world of fine watchmaking, since the watch is octagonal (hence \u201c<em>Octo<\/em>\u201d) and crowned with a round bezel.\u00a0\u00a0<\/div><div><br \/><\/div><div>The <em>Octo<\/em> continues the ancient quest of bringing together forms as an aid in the search for perfection and harmony: a studied process that gives it its unique character.\u00a0\u00a0<\/div><div><br \/><\/div><div>On another side, in much the same way as an entrance hall orders the arrangement of the rooms and gives an overview of how they are organised, the <em>Octo<\/em>\u2019s octagonal dial opening draws the eye further into the structure: like the gates of Rome giving entry to the Eternal City built on its seven hills.\u00a0\u00a0<\/div><div><br \/><\/div><div>Every facet of the <em>Octo<\/em> watch points the way to the dials\u2019 extremely refined features, created by the same pursuit of simplicity and flawlessness wrought through generations of fine workmanship and sophistication.\u00a0<\/div><div><br \/><\/div><div>The simplicity of the <em>Octo<\/em>\u2019s arrangement connects it to the essential and basic values of measuring and displaying time. The dial is uncluttered and very easy to consult; only the numbers six and twelve appear on it, as has been customary with Bvlgari watches since the 1940s. All the other hours are indicated by added markers, the facets of which have been subtly worked in support of the case\u2019s angles and sides. To take the time to examine each of these meticulously calculated angles is to experience the pleasure of discovering the kind of sophistication that creates beauty.\u00a0\u00a0<\/div><div><br \/><\/div><div>Of this encounter is born a taste for challenges, a desire to push the limits a bit further \u2013 the same subtle desires involved in creating and developing new watches for the <em>Octo<\/em>\u00a0line. Having gradually brought all of the traditional skills under its roof and having gained full mastery of modern technologies and all of its production abilities, Bvlgari now has complete control of all creative and assembly processes. This enables it to make even its most exceptional creations itself, from start to finish.\u00a0\u00a0<\/div><div><br \/><\/div><div>Bvlgari has learned how to combine a sensational aesthetic inspired by Italian creativity with its fine-jewellery legacy and the wonderful precision of exceptional Swiss mechanics. Like an athlete wearing an haute couture dress, or a race car with an exceptional body, Bvlgari\u2019s <em>Octo<\/em> watch matches style with performance.\u00a0\u00a0<\/div><div><br \/><\/div><div>This is attested by numerous developments this year, with the introduction of several innovations in both form and content. The iconic line is expanding significantly with a wider range of sizes, adding a chronograph version, and breaking into the realm of elegant and formal hand-wound ultra-thin complication watches.\u00a0\u00a0<\/div><div><br \/><\/div><div>For example, the calibres developed by Bvlgari have kept their appeal over a number of years. Once again, they will be a focal point of desire and surprise, especially with the introduction of a spectacular extra-slim tourbillon movement, the thinnest on the market.\u00a0\u00a0<\/div><div><br \/><\/div><div>A watchmaking <em>tour de force<\/em>, the tourbillon improves the accuracy of mechanical watches by offsetting perturbations caused by the earth\u2019s gravity in the balance wheel\u2019s\u00a0 isochronism.\u00a0Delicately made and protected by its cage, the tourbillon defies gravity with its rotations, which are as finely tuned as a high-performance racing engine and as poetic as a beating heart.\u00a0<\/div><div><br \/><\/div><div>Putting a tourbillon into a Bvlgari watch, in and of itself, is not a new development in the company\u2019s history. But with this extremely thin tourbillon movement, Bvlgari\u2019s master watchmakers in the Joux Valley are doing their part to cultivate even more of a taste for paradox and surprises.\u00a0<\/div><div><br \/><\/div><div>Today, for example, the thinnest movement ever invented and design has slipped into the <em>Octo<\/em>\u2019s heart to enhance the marriage between fine Swiss watchmaking and Italian reativity of the most imaginative and sensuous kind.\u00a0\u00a0<\/div><div><br \/><\/div><div>In this spirit of pursuing the basic essentials, the <em>Octo<\/em> line has also added a creation equipped with an ultra-thin hand-wound mechanical movement, an expression of unquestionable formal elegance.\u00a0<\/div><div><br \/><\/div><div>The 2014 additions to the <em>Octo<\/em> line again come in a number of versions. While the\u00a0<em>Octo<\/em>\u2019s case has traditionally been offered in a 41.5-mm-diameter size, it now comes in a new 38-mm version that plays with the kinds of metal combinations and contrasts to which the overall aesthetic of the watch lends itself so well. The new case houses the\u00a0 <em>Solotempo<\/em> calibre, an automatic movement designed and manufactured in-house.\u00a0\u00a0<\/div><div><br \/><\/div><div>The <em>Octo<\/em> line is now making full use of all the means of seduction and sophistication at its disposal to assert itself as a timepiece with character, intended for assertive men who care about a lifestyle that balances the aesthetic and the technical: men who hold definite opinions and avoid bland compromises, sophisticated aesthetes who want to understand and be moved, but refuse to be forced into choosing between thought and emotion.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/div><div><br \/><\/div><strong>OCTO FINISSIMO, EXTREME THINNESS IN THE PURSUIT OF\u00a0ELEGANT ARCHITECTURE\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/div><div><br \/><\/div><div>The <em>Octo<\/em> <em>Finissimo<\/em>\u2019s extra-thin <em>Finissimo<\/em> calibre, developed and manufactured in-house, is among the best in this category. This mechanical hand-wound movement, only 2.23 mm thick, is housed in the <em>Octo<\/em> case, a contemporary and architectural icon.\u00a0<\/div><div><br \/><\/div><div>With its hour and minute displays and a small seconds hand at 7:30, the <em>Finissimo<\/em> calibre heralds a new family of Bvlgari movements. It joins the <em>Solotempo<\/em> calibre, also developed and manufactured in-house, which drives the new <em>Octo<\/em> 38 mm watch and the iconic <em>BVLGARI BVLGARI<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/div><div><br \/><\/div><div>The very thin hand-wound <em>Finissimo<\/em> calibre was conceived and designed with the potential for further developments in mind. It is generously sized at 36 mm in diameter and provides a large torque that will accommodate various additional complications in the future, while keeping the gains in thinness. 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{"Compl\u00e9ment":"Platinum","Statut de vente":"En vente depuis","Date":"2014","Pi\u00e8ce unique":"No","S\u00e9rie limit\u00e9e":"No","Sexe":"Homme","Gaucher":"No","Diam\u00e8tre":"40","Epaisseur":"5","Types":"Hand-winding","Styles":"Classical, Evening","Calibre_autre":"Finissimo calibre","Calibre distinction":"C\u00f4tes de Gen\u00e8ve, Extra-thin","Affichage_autre":"Skeleton hands","Complication":"Small Seconds","Mati\u00e8re du bo\u00eetier":"Platinum","Mati\u00e8re du bo\u00eetier_autre":"Polished and satin-finished","Particularit\u00e9 du boitier":"Transparent caseback, Extra-thin","Particularit\u00e9 du boitier_autre":"Platinum crown with ceramic inlay","Etanch\u00e9it\u00e9":"30 meters","Forme":"Other","Cadran":"Lacquered","Couleur du cadran":"Black","Index":"Baton-type, Arabic numerals","Verre":"Sapphire, Antireflective coating","Mati\u00e8re du bracelet":"Alligator leather","Fermeture du bracelet":"Pin buckle","Couleur du bracelet":"Black","Plus de caract\u00e9ristiques":"Movement\u00a0<div>2.23 mm thick<\/div><div>36.60 mm in diameter<\/div><div>26 jewels \u00a0<\/div><div>Hours and minutes indication. off-centred small seconds between 7 and 8 o\u2019clock<\/div><div>Power-reserve display on the back<\/div><div>Frequency of 28.800 vph (4 Hz) Approx. 70-hour power reserve Circular-grained mainplate. vertical C\u00f4tes de Gen\u00e8ve\u00a0\u00a0<\/div><br \/><div><div>Dial<\/div><div>Polished black lacquered \u00a0 <br \/><\/div><\/div><div>Facetted and rhodium hands \u00a0<\/div><div><br \/><\/div><div>Platinum pin buckle<\/div>"}
Hours and minutes indication. off-centred small seconds between 7 and 8 o’clock
Power-reserve display on the back
Frequency of 28.800 vph (4 Hz) Approx. 70-hour power reserve Circular-grained mainplate. vertical Côtes de Genève
Dial
Polished black lacquered
Facetted and rhodium hands
Platinum pin buckle
DESCRIPTION
OCTO, AN EXPRESSION OF ITALIANCREATIVE GENIUS
Octo’s seductive power lies in its sophistication. Avoiding simplistic approaches and preconceived ideas, this watch is the signature of a remarkable, unusual, and meticulous personality that embraces the complementary sides of its dual nature. In a day and age that is searching for understanding, values and meaning, this watch asserts its studied complexity. It draws on its mixed background to provide a structured measurement and display of passing time, the better to appreciate, save, or notice it.
The Octo’s nature derives from its roots. The offspring of a marriage of Italian creativity and Swiss precision, it borrows the best of both worlds to take the middle road between sensuousness and exactness.
The Octo has become a mainstay in the watch collections of Bvlgari, a house known far and wide for its daring and fine-jewellery expertise. The watch is both a precision timepiece and an architectural creation that pays lively tribute to Italian creative genius.
Italian architecture channels the art of designing spaces and structures to make life pleasant; it achieves this by wedding utility to beauty, rationalism to aestheticism and functionality to pleasure. It laid the foundations for modern urban civilisations. Leonardo da Vinci, that prolific inventor who was so ahead of his time, let the technology of his day guide him. Aided by a scholarly culture in which passion had its rightful place, he invented the most visionary of solutions. His research enabled him to combine efficiency with beauty. Geometry and precision gave birth to perfection. The Octo watch is true to these teachings, without neglecting one of the ingredients of seduction: surprise.
One yet many, accurate yet sensuous, the Octo plays on paradoxes and contrasts to better show off its various facets. It appears as a built edifice, with two sides.
One side is a finely fashioned case with a hundred and ten different facets for a thousand surprises. So the eye wanders over the ridges and flat surfaces, discovering how the material was worked, cut from a solid piece, the sparkling and more satiny surfaces. Metal in all its glory. Whether gold or steel, the material expresses and reveals itself. In the heart of the Swiss Jura, the Saignelégier craftsmen who make the cases and bracelets carry on tradition, repeating the age-old meticulous, precise motions to create the Octo’s casing, a tour de force of both design and manufacture. Its remarkable shape is unlike any other in the world of fine watchmaking, since the watch is octagonal (hence “Octo”) and crowned with a round bezel.
The Octo continues the ancient quest of bringing together forms as an aid in the search for perfection and harmony: a studied process that gives it its unique character.
On another side, in much the same way as an entrance hall orders the arrangement of the rooms and gives an overview of how they are organised, the Octo’s octagonal dial opening draws the eye further into the structure: like the gates of Rome giving entry to the Eternal City built on its seven hills.
Every facet of the Octo watch points the way to the dials’ extremely refined features, created by the same pursuit of simplicity and flawlessness wrought through generations of fine workmanship and sophistication.
The simplicity of the Octo’s arrangement connects it to the essential and basic values of measuring and displaying time. The dial is uncluttered and very easy to consult; only the numbers six and twelve appear on it, as has been customary with Bvlgari watches since the 1940s. All the other hours are indicated by added markers, the facets of which have been subtly worked in support of the case’s angles and sides. To take the time to examine each of these meticulously calculated angles is to experience the pleasure of discovering the kind of sophistication that creates beauty.
Of this encounter is born a taste for challenges, a desire to push the limits a bit further – the same subtle desires involved in creating and developing new watches for the Octo line. Having gradually brought all of the traditional skills under its roof and having gained full mastery of modern technologies and all of its production abilities, Bvlgari now has complete control of all creative and assembly processes. This enables it to make even its most exceptional creations itself, from start to finish.
Bvlgari has learned how to combine a sensational aesthetic inspired by Italian creativity with its fine-jewellery legacy and the wonderful precision of exceptional Swiss mechanics. Like an athlete wearing an haute couture dress, or a race car with an exceptional body, Bvlgari’s Octo watch matches style with performance.
This is attested by numerous developments this year, with the introduction of several innovations in both form and content. The iconic line is expanding significantly with a wider range of sizes, adding a chronograph version, and breaking into the realm of elegant and formal hand-wound ultra-thin complication watches.
For example, the calibres developed by Bvlgari have kept their appeal over a number of years. Once again, they will be a focal point of desire and surprise, especially with the introduction of a spectacular extra-slim tourbillon movement, the thinnest on the market.
A watchmaking tour de force, the tourbillon improves the accuracy of mechanical watches by offsetting perturbations caused by the earth’s gravity in the balance wheel’s isochronism. Delicately made and protected by its cage, the tourbillon defies gravity with its rotations, which are as finely tuned as a high-performance racing engine and as poetic as a beating heart.
Putting a tourbillon into a Bvlgari watch, in and of itself, is not a new development in the company’s history. But with this extremely thin tourbillon movement, Bvlgari’s master watchmakers in the Joux Valley are doing their part to cultivate even more of a taste for paradox and surprises.
Today, for example, the thinnest movement ever invented and design has slipped into the Octo’s heart to enhance the marriage between fine Swiss watchmaking and Italian reativity of the most imaginative and sensuous kind.
In this spirit of pursuing the basic essentials, the Octo line has also added a creation equipped with an ultra-thin hand-wound mechanical movement, an expression of unquestionable formal elegance.
The 2014 additions to the Octo line again come in a number of versions. While the Octo’s case has traditionally been offered in a 41.5-mm-diameter size, it now comes in a new 38-mm version that plays with the kinds of metal combinations and contrasts to which the overall aesthetic of the watch lends itself so well. The new case houses the Solotempo calibre, an automatic movement designed and manufactured in-house.
The Octo line is now making full use of all the means of seduction and sophistication at its disposal to assert itself as a timepiece with character, intended for assertive men who care about a lifestyle that balances the aesthetic and the technical: men who hold definite opinions and avoid bland compromises, sophisticated aesthetes who want to understand and be moved, but refuse to be forced into choosing between thought and emotion.
OCTO FINISSIMO, EXTREME THINNESS IN THE PURSUIT OF ELEGANT ARCHITECTURE
The OctoFinissimo’s extra-thin Finissimo calibre, developed and manufactured in-house, is among the best in this category. This mechanical hand-wound movement, only 2.23 mm thick, is housed in the Octo case, a contemporary and architectural icon.
With its hour and minute displays and a small seconds hand at 7:30, the Finissimo calibre heralds a new family of Bvlgari movements. It joins the Solotempo calibre, also developed and manufactured in-house, which drives the new Octo 38 mm watch and the iconic BVLGARI BVLGARI.
The very thin hand-wound Finissimo calibre was conceived and designed with the potential for further developments in mind. It is generously sized at 36 mm in diameter and provides a large torque that will accommodate various additional complications in the future, while keeping the gains in thinness. Its high frequency of 28,800 vibrations/hour (4 Hz) makes it very accurate.
This movement, the product of a greatly expanding capacity for in-house manufacture, is inserted into a case from the Octo line, which has been one of Bvlgari’s mainstays and one of its strongest symbols since its launch in the summer of 2012. Its distinctive aesthetic, which really is without peer in the watchmaking world, has made Octo one of the most iconic of existing watch models.
Housed in a 40-mm platinum case only 5 mm thick, radiating a serene simplicity enhanced by the perfection of its polished black lacquered dial, Octo Finissimo belongs to the category of classic, elegant watches that display hours and minutes, and adds a small off-centre seconds hand between 7 and 8 o’clock. The movement indicates the status of the power reserve, which is about 70 hours, on the back of the watch.
The OctoFinissimo movement’s finishes are in keeping with this exceptional motor, appearing on the generous surfaces that lend themselves so well to decoration.
Octo’s seductive power lies in its sophistication. Avoiding simplistic approaches and preconceived ideas, this watch is the signature of a remarkable, unusual, and meticulous personality that embraces the complementary sides of its dual nature. In a day and age that is searching for understanding, values and meaning, this watch asserts its studied complexity. It draws on its mixed background to provide a structured measurement and display of passing time, the better to appreciate, save, or notice it.
The Octo’s nature derives from its roots. The offspring of a marriage of Italian creativity and Swiss precision, it borrows the best of both worlds to take the middle road between sensuousness and exactness.
The Octo has become a mainstay in the watch collections of Bvlgari, a house known far and wide for its daring and fine-jewellery expertise. The watch is both a precision timepiece and an architectural creation that pays lively tribute to Italian creative genius.
Italian architecture channels the art of designing spaces and structures to make life pleasant; it achieves this by wedding utility to beauty, rationalism to aestheticism and functionality to pleasure. It laid the foundations for modern urban civilisations. Leonardo da Vinci, that prolific inventor who was so ahead of his time, let the technology of his day guide him. Aided by a scholarly culture in which passion had its rightful place, he invented the most visionary of solutions. His research enabled him to combine efficiency with beauty. Geometry and precision gave birth to perfection. The Octo watch is true to these teachings, without neglecting one of the ingredients of seduction: surprise.
One yet many, accurate yet sensuous, the Octo plays on paradoxes and contrasts to better show off its various facets. It appears as a built edifice, with two sides.
One side is a finely fashioned case with a hundred and ten different facets for a thousand surprises. So the eye wanders over the ridges and flat surfaces, discovering how the material was worked, cut from a solid piece, the sparkling and more satiny surfaces. Metal in all its glory. Whether gold or steel, the material expresses and reveals itself. In the heart of the Swiss Jura, the Saignelégier craftsmen who make the cases and bracelets carry on tradition, repeating the age-old meticulous, precise motions to create the Octo’s casing, a tour de force of both design and manufacture. Its remarkable shape is unlike any other in the world of fine watchmaking, since the watch is octagonal (hence “Octo”) and crowned with a round bezel.
The Octo continues the ancient quest of bringing together forms as an aid in the search for perfection and harmony: a studied process that gives it its unique character.
On another side, in much the same way as an entrance hall orders the arrangement of the rooms and gives an overview of how they are organised, the Octo’s octagonal dial opening draws the eye further into the structure: like the gates of Rome giving entry to the Eternal City built on its seven hills.
Every facet of the Octo watch points the way to the dials’ extremely refined features, created by the same pursuit of simplicity and flawlessness wrought through generations of fine workmanship and sophistication.
The simplicity of the Octo’s arrangement connects it to the essential and basic values of measuring and displaying time. The dial is uncluttered and very easy to consult; only the numbers six and twelve appear on it, as has been customary with Bvlgari watches since the 1940s. All the other hours are indicated by added markers, the facets of which have been subtly worked in support of the case’s angles and sides. To take the time to examine each of these meticulously calculated angles is to experience the pleasure of discovering the kind of sophistication that creates beauty.
Of this encounter is born a taste for challenges, a desire to push the limits a bit further – the same subtle desires involved in creating and developing new watches for the Octo line. Having gradually brought all of the traditional skills under its roof and having gained full mastery of modern technologies and all of its production abilities, Bvlgari now has complete control of all creative and assembly processes. This enables it to make even its most exceptional creations itself, from start to finish.
Bvlgari has learned how to combine a sensational aesthetic inspired by Italian creativity with its fine-jewellery legacy and the wonderful precision of exceptional Swiss mechanics. Like an athlete wearing an haute couture dress, or a race car with an exceptional body, Bvlgari’s Octo watch matches style with performance.
This is attested by numerous developments this year, with the introduction of several innovations in both form and content. The iconic line is expanding significantly with a wider range of sizes, adding a chronograph version, and breaking into the realm of elegant and formal hand-wound ultra-thin complication watches.
For example, the calibres developed by Bvlgari have kept their appeal over a number of years. Once again, they will be a focal point of desire and surprise, especially with the introduction of a spectacular extra-slim tourbillon movement, the thinnest on the market.
A watchmaking tour de force, the tourbillon improves the accuracy of mechanical watches by offsetting perturbations caused by the earth’s gravity in the balance wheel’s isochronism. Delicately made and protected by its cage, the tourbillon defies gravity with its rotations, which are as finely tuned as a high-performance racing engine and as poetic as a beating heart.
Putting a tourbillon into a Bvlgari watch, in and of itself, is not a new development in the company’s history. But with this extremely thin tourbillon movement, Bvlgari’s master watchmakers in the Joux Valley are doing their part to cultivate even more of a taste for paradox and surprises.
Today, for example, the thinnest movement ever invented and design has slipped into the Octo’s heart to enhance the marriage between fine Swiss watchmaking and Italian reativity of the most imaginative and sensuous kind.
In this spirit of pursuing the basic essentials, the Octo line has also added a creation equipped with an ultra-thin hand-wound mechanical movement, an expression of unquestionable formal elegance.
The 2014 additions to the Octo line again come in a number of versions. While the Octo’s case has traditionally been offered in a 41.5-mm-diameter size, it now comes in a new 38-mm version that plays with the kinds of metal combinations and contrasts to which the overall aesthetic of the watch lends itself so well. The new case houses the Solotempo calibre, an automatic movement designed and manufactured in-house.
The Octo line is now making full use of all the means of seduction and sophistication at its disposal to assert itself as a timepiece with character, intended for assertive men who care about a lifestyle that balances the aesthetic and the technical: men who hold definite opinions and avoid bland compromises, sophisticated aesthetes who want to understand and be moved, but refuse to be forced into choosing between thought and emotion.
OCTO FINISSIMO, EXTREME THINNESS IN THE PURSUIT OF ELEGANT ARCHITECTURE
The OctoFinissimo’s extra-thin Finissimo calibre, developed and manufactured in-house, is among the best in this category. This mechanical hand-wound movement, only 2.23 mm thick, is housed in the Octo case, a contemporary and architectural icon.
With its hour and minute displays and a small seconds hand at 7:30, the Finissimo calibre heralds a new family of Bvlgari movements. It joins the Solotempo calibre, also developed and manufactured in-house, which drives the new Octo 38 mm watch and the iconic BVLGARI BVLGARI.
The very thin hand-wound Finissimo calibre was conceived and designed with the potential for further developments in mind. It is generously sized at 36 mm in diameter and provides a large torque that will accommodate various additional complications in the future, while keeping the gains in thinness. Its high frequency of 28,800 vibrations/hour (4 Hz) makes it very accurate.
This movement, the product of a greatly expanding capacity for in-house manufacture, is inserted into a case from the Octo line, which has been one of Bvlgari’s mainstays and one of its strongest symbols since its launch in the summer of 2012. Its distinctive aesthetic, which really is without peer in the watchmaking world, has made Octo one of the most iconic of existing watch models.
Housed in a 40-mm platinum case only 5 mm thick, radiating a serene simplicity enhanced by the perfection of its polished black lacquered dial, Octo Finissimo belongs to the category of classic, elegant watches that display hours and minutes, and adds a small off-centre seconds hand between 7 and 8 o’clock. The movement indicates the status of the power reserve, which is about 70 hours, on the back of the watch.
The OctoFinissimo movement’s finishes are in keeping with this exceptional motor, appearing on the generous surfaces that lend themselves so well to decoration.
