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BULGARI OCTO FINISSIMO ULTRA COSC
€600,000 / bulgari.com
[ Words Tom Wiggins ]
That’s a lot of money for not a lot of watch.
You can say that again –turn it sideways and it disappears. While phone companies have largely recovered from their obsession with thinness, there’s something of an arms race going on between high-end watchmakers Bulgari and Piaget. Over the past decade the two have been trading the title of world’s thinnest mechanical watch… but when Richard Mille released the 1.75mm RM UP-01 Ferrari in 2022, the gauntlet was laid down. The result is Bulgari’s latest Octo Finissimo, which shaves 0.05mm off the record.