Felow Forumners,
I see some comments about date display being TOO small?
That set me thinking - why? Italian designers and particularly BVLGARI ones do not do things arbitarily. There must be a reason and I know that the prototype design meetings go on for days just to discuss a small detail as a date display.
I am sure we will know when we interview the designers or watch franchise executives. meanwhile it is fun to speculate.
When you look at this Octo, the striking theme is elegant style. In an ideal design paradigm, there would be NO date window! Look at the simple readable dial and the bold hour numerals at 12 and 6. The other markers are slender batons. For perfect symmetry at 3 and 9, there should only be the baton markers. The date window disturbs the symmetry.
I bet that with perfect sectio aurea and other such philosophy of Phidias, the designer would have preferred no date for purity of design.
I guess, then, the marketing chap chimed in with gobbledeegook about user interface and advantageous broader choice decision (ABCD) to demand a date display.
They tussled for hours until Watch Boss called a halt to proceedings and assigned the engineering team to fabricate the smallest date disk that still was visible yet not skew the symmetry too much.
I think they should have stuck to their principles and omitted the date window altogether. We get dates from our Blackberry / iPad organisers anyway. We should get beauty from our mechanical watches...that is their raison d'etre in the 21st century.
Regards,
MTF
This message has been edited by MTF on 2012-07-15 21:54:59