BVLGARI

LUXURIANT PARADISE

Sharmila Bertin

Become an Alice wandering through a garden infused with a fairytale atmosphere, where fauna and flora blend in harmony, a wilderness park bursting with a thousand and one delights. Bvlgari chose to unveil its Eden The Garden of Wonders “WE WANTED TO CREATE THE collection, which includes two EFFECT OF A GARDEN THAT platinum jewellery pieces, Giardino Dell'Eden Tourbillon and Giardino INVADES YOU, THAT RAMPS Dell'Eden Piccolissimo, imagined OVER YOU, A SOMEWHAT by Fabrizio Buonamassa Stigliani, FANCIFUL GARDEN” Product Creation Executive Director, FABRIZIO BUONAMASSA STIGLIANI, in a lush green Parisian wonderland. PRODUCT CREATION EXECUTIVE There’s but one adjective to conjure DIRECTOR, BVLGARI up this perfect, vibrantly-coloured duo, espousing diamonds, rubies, pink tourmalines, tangerine garnets, lemon, violet and pink sapphires, tsavorites, paraibas, emeralds and rock crystal, and that’s extraordinary. A powerful creative cue doubled by great ingenuity instilled by Bvlgari. “It all began around a year and a half ago, from two sketches and a concept: feature a snake, an invisible one, camouflaged between elements borrowed from nature, where you could only make out its head or tail, and a watch that was also hidden away, meaning you’d have to look for the time between the petals and the leaves”, explains Fabrizio Buonamassa Stigliani. “We studied flowers, butterflies, a whole plant and animal kingdom from Bvlgari’s archives, like the incredible vintage brooches from the 60s and 70s, which gave us our inspiration”.

THESE TWO WATCHES, CRAFTED IN PLATINUM AND STREWN WITH PRECIOUS STONES, ARE DRIVEN BY MECHANICAL HEARTS.

WATCHES-NEWS.COM X BVLGARI And, instead of being static objects, on the contrary, they’re filled with a special tempo, as Fabrizio Buonamassa Stigliani tells us, “the idea behind the Giardino Dell'Eden Tourbillon is to wear something that’s alive. We added lots of elements to create the effect of a garden that invades you, that ramps over you. We worked on Bvlgari-typical three-dimensionality, yet moved beyond conventional geometrical realms. It’s a somewhat fanciful garden”. And tremendous work as “we had to develop a secure system to fasten the flowers to the case which, in turn, had to be mobile so the movement could be wound. And, so that the bracelet would tailor to the size of the wrist, we created a sort of mesh to attach the flowers. Like this, they can be detached then repositioned. We also came up with a technique for the clasp with this leaf that you tilt and turn”. In short, everything has been designed for enhanced versatility and wearer-friendliness, yet without ever revealing behind-the-scene secrets.

These watches, exquisite dial-side and caseback-side, are also stunning inside. Something that Fabrizio Buonamassa Stigliani held dear: “We wished to merge the art of miniaturization with the art of stylish engineering by using our skeletonized tourbillon along with our Piccolissimo movement which, at the time, had just been developed and whose production was about to start”, i.e. two hand-wound calibres driving the hours and minutes in the centre, one entirely openworked and the other barely measuring 12 mm in diameter and 2.50 thick. A marvellous stroll through this dazzling paradise!