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The steel watch is actually covered in white gold, palladium, and rhodium to achieve that white and bright color. Very cool indeed! Which makes sense since chemically rhodium won’t stick well to steel, so intermediate layers have to be utilized.
A stay in Rome with the Bulgari Octo Finissimo Automatic Sandblasted Steel
From the moment I became the proud owner of the Bulgari Octo Finissimo Automatic Sandblasted Steel, I had only one idea in mind: to spend a few days with it in Rome. Simply because Bulgari is a brand founded in Rome and the influence of the Eternal City c...
This satin brushed version is beautiful too...
Thanks a lot for your picture and comment!
I love that blue dial!
Thin profile and skeleton back rounds out a very fine looking watch! Cheers Drew
Bulgari makes a beautiful watch. Thank you for the pictures! I miss Rome!
And I’m also reminded how much I miss visiting different cities.
Thanks FX, I read with interest this entire beautiful and personal review...it's indeed a "new" line that Bulgari got so remarkably right, as you said both horologically and aesthetically!
The only doubt I had until after half of your writeup is how you could have made it back to Rome right now...mystery solved when you said it was August! Looking forward to being back as well! ;-) These "entry-level" versions are also in my view the most s...
Such a great review and...
Thanks for the pictures of the city where I was born and that I miss so much!
Wonderful post FX
What a great idea to do this session in Rome. The sandblasted Octo Finissimo, so the first series actually, be it in titanium or in steel is a very attractive and discreet model. George
Winding with delicacy
Good to know if i decide to acquire an OF. Let the rotor do the job, some of my watches i ignore manual winding to save wear for the stem.
This is a really lovely watch!
The weight, especially in titanium is superb, and the fit on the wrist, even small wrists like mine works really well. It checks many boxes, in my view, and the automatic with micro rotor makes it practical. My only issue, with a 6.75” wrist, is that it v...
I just learned...
The steel watch is actually covered in white gold, palladium, and rhodium to achieve that white and bright color. Very cool indeed! Which makes sense since chemically rhodium won’t stick well to steel, so intermediate layers have to be utilized.