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Bvlgari x fragment: BVLGARI BVLGARI

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bvlgari fragment design collab
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Hiroshi Fujiwara of fragment design and Bvlgari have come collectively but once more to launch an unique new timepiece, fragment x Bvlgari “BVLGARI BVLGARI”. The 2 manufacturers had partnered up earlier than in 2020.

The most recent launch options interchangeable nylon straps, an all-black strap, and a striped design with a touch of navy — fragment’s signature color. The bezel of the watch is engraved with the names of the 2 manufacturers, “Bvlgari” and “FRGMT”, and is stainless-steel, a change-up from their earlier collaboration which featured brushed metallic. The watch additionally comes with automated winding and is waterproof for as much as 50 metres.

bvlgari fragment design collab
Picture: Bvlgari

Bvlgari has lately proven off with their world record-breaking Octo Finissimo Perpetual Calendar timepiece and their complicated Octo Roma Carillon Tourbillon timepieces on the Geneva Watch Days tradeshow.

Bvlgari and Hiroshi Fujiwara had beforehand collaborated on luggage and equipment, however 2020’s collaboration was the primary time the 2 had partnered up on watches.

The problem of their earlier collab was to push Bvlgari and make a distinction by way of their design and aesthetic, whereas nonetheless respecting the model’s heritage. The matte gunmetal really feel of the watch offers it a navy really feel — a masculine transfer for a model that was primarily seen as a girls’s jeweller. Fujiwara was additionally stunned that the model had let him use nylon straps for his or her collaboration. Additional emphasising the ruggedness and masculine really feel of the timepiece.

Fujiwara is a watch fanatic himself. However even with a trend background, he doesn’t coordinate his watches and garments. “I fairly just like the randomness of not doing it,” he says. “You already know, a watch that no one notices may very well be an excellent uncommon piece, for instance. It’s enjoyable to put on one thing like that with an informal and plain outfit. Watches are an final type of private leisure, together with that unbalance-ability.”

Fujiwara can be identified for doing all kinds of collaborations. And this one wasn’t essentially so apparent: “It was an unfamiliar territory for me, however one thing attention-grabbing may occur due to that. That’s how we obtained going. A wierd collaboration might be extra enjoyable than one thing you understand nicely.”

Priced round roughly S$6,000, the BVLGARI BVLGARI” piece is a world restricted mannequin with solely 600 items, with a restricted version model unique to Japan. 

Items can be found through Bvlgari’s website for reservations at midnight on September 7.

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