Recently, the WorldTempus team visited Le Sentier, where Bulgari Haute Horlogerie is located, to discover the brand's latest chiming timepieces. The Octo Roma Grande Sonnerie Tourbillon and Octo Roma Carillon Tourbillon are virtuoso works of horological craft, but they are even more impressive on a philosophical level. A new chiming melody has been developed in collaboration with Swiss orchestral conductor Lorenzo Viotti, a melody based on the startling — some might even say unsettling — musical interval called the tritone. An alternative name for the tritone is the "Devil's interval" — derived from the infernal difficulty that musicians historically had with this dissonant yet strangely compelling interval.
In classical music, an étude is a pedagogically oriented piece, typically written for a single instrument, whose purpose it is to hone and perfect a particular musical technique or skill. They were an important measure of instrument mastery, and the most famous études of classical music demanded the utmost precision and proficiency from the player. Alongside a new variation of the Octo Finissimo Minute Repeater Carbon, the Octo Roma Grande Sonnerie and the Octo Roma Carillon Tourbillon form a daunting trio: Bulgari's chiming étude en trois exercices. Watch our video to discover these new watches, and find out how they represent the essential spirit of Bulgari Haute Horlogerie.
