The Berries Jumping Hours and Retrograde Minutes now comes dressed in emeralds, while the Berries Tourbillon appears clad in emeralds or rubies, with both versions retaining the delightful stones of the Berries collection.

Bulgari’s Berries Tourbillon Retrograde Hours (Emeralds)

Each of these rare watches embodies a refined association between the elaborate watchmaking complications and exquisite gemstone craftsmanship.
The latter combination creates a cocktail of creativity that is as much about watchmaking as it is about jewellery, two essential parts rendered possible by the rich legacy within Bulgari.

Berries Jumping Hours
The spherical motif, signature of the Berries collection, provides a display window for the Jumping Hours at 12 o’clock on one hand, and embraces the Tourbillon at 6 o’clock on the other.
This surprising system, invented by the French watchmaker Blondeau around 1830, does not display the hours with a hand...
Instead, the watch dial features a small aperture through which the hour numeral appears. With each change of hour, the displayed number gives way to the following one. Jumping hours watches are often of a mixed time, with the hours being displayed by a numeral, while minutes and seconds are indicated by classic hands.

Berries Tourbillon Retrograde Hours
Protected by its finely crafted carriage, the tourbillon defies gravity with each of its rotations to create a movement that combines the rigorous precision of a finely tuned racing engine with the poetry of a beating heart.

Bulgari’s Berries Tourbillon Retrograde Hours (Rubies)

To fully understand the complexity of the mechanism, one only needs to turn over the jewellery-like case of the Berries Tourbillon Retrograde Hours watch to reveal (through its sapphire back) the organic mechanism both skilfully and creatively devised by Bulgari.
This perspective also affords a fascinating view of the steady rotation of the regulator. The latter ensures not just the smooth running of the self-winding movement via an oscillating weight hand-crafted in 22K gold, it also guarantees a 64-hour power reserve.

The seamless fusion between Bulgari’s expertise in the complementary fields of high jewellery and fine watchmaking are embodied by these two watch models.
Both are a mere expression and symbol of the brand’s endless passion for luxurious creations.

Source: Bulgari