Bvlgari Octo Roma Blue Carillon Tourbillon

Rome-based watchmaker/jeweller Bvlgari has distinctive credentials as a maker of chiming watches. Following the acquisition of Gerald Genta and Daniel Roth some 20 years in the past, the model has inherited and cultivated a convention of crafting distinctive placing watches. Bvlgari is among the only a few makers to provide grande sonnerie wristwatches or to be able to creating mechanical wonders because the Octo Finissimo minute repeater, the thinnest minute repeater ever. To kick off 2022, the model presents a brand new model of its tourbillon minute repeater watch, the Bvlgari Octo Roma Blue Carillon Tourbillon in platinum with its extremely graphic motion handled in blue.

The Octo Roma Blue Carillon Tourbillon combines two conventional problems – the tourbillon and the minute repeater in a resolutely modern design language. Identical to the blacked-out model offered final yr, this new chapter within the “Sinfonia della Meccanica” stands out for the unique and tri-dimensional structure of its motion. In an uncommon vogue, the hammers of the minute repeater mechanism are offered dial facet whereas the one-minute Tourbillon beats at 6 o’clock. The skeletonized grille-style bridges (now coated in blue by way of an ALD remedy) reveal in transparency the advanced mechanism. Flip the watch over and the exhibition caseback gives a transparent view of the intricate chiming mechanism with its cams and racks. Such mechanisms are often hidden beneath the dial and seeing it in motion is a feast for the eyes.  

Completely manufactured in-house, the hand-wound calibre BVL428 measures 35mm in diameter and is 8.35mm thick. It includes a complete of 432 parts. Beating at 3Hz, its energy reserve is of 75 hours when absolutely wound (there’s a round energy reserve indicator on the caseback). As talked about earlier than, it’s an inverted development with the hammers seen dial facet. Final however not least, as its identify suggests, it’s a carillon minute repeater. As such, it options not two however three hammers to chime to time. Activated by the pusher on the left facet of the case, the melodic sequence strikes three tones: the word C for the hours, the notes E-D-C for the quarters and the word E for the minutes. 

The motion of the Bvlgari Octo Roma Blue Carillon Tourbillon is housed within the architectural octagonal Roma case. 44mm in diameter, it’s original out of platinum with a blue titanium center case. The crown and the pusher are in white gold. The caseband is designed to maximise sound and permit it to unfold. The assorted grooves are supposed to cut back the quantity of steel between the within and outdoors, and the three openings on the caseband correspond to the three gongs, thus permitting the sound to exit the chamber in an optimum manner (the gongs are hooked up on to the physique of the case for optimum sound transmission). The again can also be hollowed out for a similar purpose.

Availability & Value

A blue alligator strap with a platinum three-blade folding buckle completes this new chapter within the Bvlgari Sinfonia della Meccanica. Restricted to 30 items, the Octo Roma Blue Carillon Tourbillon retails for EUR 262,295 (excl. taxes). Extra info at www.bulgari.com