In a new four part series, we look back at one of the most seminal watch designs to have emerged in the last decade, the BVLGARI Octo Finissimo, and its rapid ascendancy to the lofty heights of haute horlogerie. In part one, Wei speaks with two of the key individuals at BVLGARI who were instrumental in the creation of this new icon, Antoine Pin and Fabrizio Buonamassa Stigliani, to retrace the origins of the Octo Finissimo and the inspiration behind the goal of ultra-thin wearability.