Thankfully, the new style—named after the Italian term for “flying saucer”—doesn’t have a stratospheric price to match
As a design, the disco volante—or “flying saucer” in Italian—has been around in watchmaking at least since the 1930s. But it had a definite purple patch in the late sixties and early seventies, when the space race turned people’s heads toward the stars and, at the same time, dressier Swiss watch brands woke up to the possibilities of sexing up their high-end watches to appeal to a younger-minded audience.
Furlan Marri specializes in what could be described as homages to the greats in the dress-watch canon—but that description isn’t entirely fair. It belies the sheer amount of work that has gone into both the intricacy of these designs and the quality of the finishing. Both give Furlan Marri a legitimacy and a wearability all its own.
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