Bulgari
Revolution Awards 2017: Best Men’s Watch — Bulgari Octo Finissimo Automatic
This year’s award for Best Men’s Watch, unlike the previous winners, goes to a watch that’s a little more accessible, and it may just represent the most elegant, stunning and technically virtuosic interpretation of an everyday men’s timepiece.
The Bulgari Octo Finissimo Automatic currently holds the crown as the thinnest automatic watch in the world, and is powered by the new caliber BVL 138 with micro-rotor, itself an extension of the 2.23mm-thick BVL 128 that came with the manual-winding Octo Finissimo of 2014.
Put this watch on your wrist and you’ll start to wonder how such an incredible object can exist. The watch weighs almost nothing, yet there it sits, working as it should, with the small-seconds indicator at seven o’clock running, assuring you that this is a working piece of horology.
The lightness of the watch ensures that it doesn’t get in the way during the day, for it slips under the tightest of shirt cuffs with ease, serving up the time only when required, although truth be told, living with something as amazing as this is hard to ignore.