FABRIZIO BUONAMASSA STIGLIANI

The Bulgari executive on his denim obsession, pen collection and award-winning watches.

- Nick Scott

BULGARI'S NAPLES-BORN, ROME-RAISED product creation executive director, Fabrizio Buonamassa Stigliani, is a man of numerous talents. A healthy obsession with how luxury objects should look and operate means that anything more than a passing chat with him is liable to be complemented by spontaneous visual embellishment, as he makes sweeping gestures with pen on paper as he talks. Indeed, his sketches of watches, jewellery, cars and so much else pepper his Instagram feed (where, first and foremost, he calls himself an industrial designer) and are constant companions wherever he goes.

Now in his early 50s, Stigliani began his career at Fiat Style Centre in Turin, and he joined Bulgari in 2001. One of his first tasks at the Italian luxury house back then was to design a bracelet for the Gérald Genta Octo complications. His most recent assignment was designing the Octo Finissimo Skeleton 8 Days, but earlier this year two 10th-anniversary editions were released with dials designed to mimic his own sketches. And since 2014, the Octo Finissimo has set eight world records including the Ultra, which was the world's thinnest watch at 1.8mm thick when it was released in March. (It was eclipsed in July by Richard Mille's 1.75mm RM UP-01 Ferrari.)

Record setting aside, Stigliani also wins plaudits aplenty for his sartorial flair, notable even by Italian standards, proving his eye for personal design is thoroughly polished from wrist to toe.

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