Not sure if I would say it's a Serpenti for men, but I guess if you can pull it off, then by all means - Yes! I see a similar watch in our store everyday, and the craftsmanship is definitely superb. Beautiful jeweled watch for quarter million dollars imo. Cheers, Anthony PS. I recently joined BVLGAR
and got permission by AP to make these prototype coating pieces. There were 2 batches made. The first batch, the coating wasn't as even. Improvement was made in the 2nd batch. Serial # engravings on the case back show if these pieces were part of Batch #1 or #2.
I designed the watch dial itself including choosing the hand colors including the chronograph hands. Certain combos were denied, and I ended up with this design which was approved by AP.
I've been wearing my Dawn of the New Day Offshore recently. For those who don't know this watch, it was one of a handful of prototypes that PuristS founder Dr. Thomas Mao made which had a prototype black PVD like coating where the black coating is somehow infused into the steel substrate a few micro