At Geneva Watch Days 2025, Bvlgari truly embraced the ‘art’ of contemporary watchmaking.
The Buonamassa-designed Octo Finissimo is bold, sharply angular, and has long served as a canvas for mechanical complexity and cross-cultural creativity. In 2019, Japanese architect Tadao Ando designed a 200-piece special edition Octo Finissimo playing on themes of water ripples and spiral geometrics, followed by another novelty in 2021, which gazed at the shimmering Mikazuki (Japanese for slimmest moon crescent) for inspiration. The following year, Bvlgari sought Pritzker-winning Japanese architect Kazuyo Sejima to reimagine the Octo Finissimo as a metallic mirage.
As the latest chapter in Bvlgari’s eternal dialogue of technical experimentalism and artistic expression, they draw inspiration from Korean artist Lee Ufan’s signature themes: rocks and mirrors. Accompanying this sculptural masterpiece is a blue-marble-adorned Octo Finissimo tourbillon and a racetrack-ready duo of Bvlgari Bronzo GMT and Chronograph references.
Join us in discovering Bvlgari’s latest creative endeavors and novelties from Geneva Watch Days 2025.
Octo Finissimo Lee Ufan x Bvlgari
Ufan is a South Korean-born, Japan-based painter and sculptor with a penchant for artistically materializing the intersections between infinity and stillness, reflection and limitation, and rock and mirror. Apply this vision to the iconic Octo Finissimo canvas, and you have a striking duality of texture and voidness. The 40-millimeter titanium case nods to the Octo Finissimo Ultra’s legacy of extreme slimness, slating in at a mere 5.15 millimeters. At first glance, the case and bracelet appear as if they’re barraged by meteorite showers. In fact, they’re hand-filed to create a series of raw, crisscrossing patterns, delivering an elegant interplay of light and shadow on their surface.
Contrasting this artistic ruggedness, the round stainless-steel bezel is sunray brushed and frames a serenely void dial. The black mirror dial inside recreates Ufan’s signature effect of infinitely reflecting still objects in pure darkness. Featuring no hour indexes, branding, or inscription, the quiet minimalism is complemented by matte black skeletonized hands and off-centered small seconds at eight o’clock. Laser-engraved with Lee Ufan’s signature, the sapphire caseback gives you a peek at the 2.23-millimetre record-thin automatic calibre BVL 138 and its platinum micro-rotor. Adorned with Geneva stripes and circular graining on its mainplate, it offers a 60-hour power reserve. Limited to just 150 pieces.
Octo Finissimo Tourbillon Marble
The Octo Finissimo’s tale of time continues at Geneva Watch Days 2025, reimagined with mechanical poetry and the soft elegance of marble. Steeped in Imperial Roman culture, marble has always been close to the Italian heart. Following last year’s ‘Verde Alpi’ green marble edition, the dial of Bvlgari’s new Octo Finissimo tourbillon is expertly carved from a Blu Incanto marble. Sourced from Italy’s finest quarries, its distinct shades of blue reminisce of the crashing of waves above the dark depths of the ocean.
Showcasing Bvlgari’s mastery of materials using delicately thin and brittle sheets of marble, the maison’s technical savoir-faire is also under the spotlight. A flying tourbillon complements the marble’s emotional and geological grandeur, matching the hands and indexes. Inside its 40-millimeter platinum case measuring just 4.85 millimeters thick, is the hand-wound calibre BVL268. It offers a 52-hour power reserve at an astonishing 1.95-millimeter profile.
Bvlgari Bronzo Collection
Bvlgari introduces the unique patina of bronze to its Aluminium collection, embracing the alloy’s unique seen which reflects the organic beauty of time. Marking a milestone in the maison’s legacy, Bvlgari debuts the Bronzo collection — an entirely new line which takes inspiration from motorsport’s sporty-chic elegance and precision. Fusing bronze with black rubber, the Bronzo GMT and Bronzo Chronograph channel the elegance of Bvlgari’s late-1990s aluminium icons, renewed with a warm-hued sandblasted bronze case. Much like wine, bronze ages gracefully too, forming a unique patina over time which only enhances the novelty’s appeal.
Bronzo GMT
The GMT complication is designed for frequent globetrotters and the geographically capricious, well-embodied by Bvlgari’s 2021 Aluminium GMT. The new Bronzo GMT struts a sleek 40-millimeter sandblasted bronze case with a thickness of 9.7 millimeters. With a black DLC-coated titanium caseback and crown, its matching black rubber bezel receives the iconic ‘BVLGARI BVLGARI’ engraving. Interestingly, unlike traditional GMTs, where the 24-hour scale takes a different shade, the Bronzo GMT simply uses white Arabic numerals alternated with square luminescent indexes. This is paired with an arrow-shaped GMT hand comprising rose-gold-plated brass. All hands and indexes receive Super-LumiNova treatment. Inside, the automatic calibre B192 offers a 50-hour power reserve.
Bronzo Chronograph
Bvlgari’s new bronze chronograph slates in at 42 millimeters with a thickness of 12.35 millimeters. Like the Bronzo GMT, the Bronzo Chronograph also boasts a black rubber bezel accompanying its black DLC-coated titanium crown, caseback, plus chronograph pushers. Amidst the warm-hued bronze elegance and black subtlety, a sporty tachymeter scale and two chronograph registers keep the dial busy. Upon close inspection, you’ll find a date window at 4:30. All indexes and hands are dipped in Super-LumiNova and elegantly contrast the dial’s black backdrop. The Bronzo Chronograph is powered by the calibre B381 with a Dubois-Depraz chronograph module, offering a 42-hour power reserve.
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