Bvlgari Serpenti Tubogas Trigold

The Serpenti wasn’t born as a styling exercise. It arrived in 1948, at a moment when Bulgari was actively pulling inspiration from the industrial world and reshaping it through Roman hands. The serpent was ancient symbolism made wearable — renewal, power, magnetism — translated into a form that could move, coil, and return to itself.

This tri-gold Serpenti Tubogas sits squarely in that lineage. Not ornamental for the sake of ornament, but engineered to behave like nothing else on the wrist. The Tubogas construction, inspired by flexible gas piping from the early twentieth century, is built without soldering. Interlocking strips of gold are wrapped around a temporary core, which is later removed, leaving behind a bracelet that stretches, contracts, and holds its form with surprising resilience. You don’t fasten this watch. You let it find you.

The alternating bands of yellow, rose, and white gold create a beautiful pattern. As the bracelet coils, each tone catches light differently, never settling or repeting. At one end sits a deliberately small round case, its proportions chosen to match the rest of the bracelet. The black dial stays focused and legible, framed by the engraved BVLGARI BVLGARI bezel — a detail that became a brand signature in the 1970s and remains unmistakable today.

There’s a reason the Serpenti crossed from private salons into popular culture so effortlessly. When Elizabeth Taylor wore one while filming Cleopatra, it wasn’t costume. It was her identity. The Serpenti had always belonged to women who understood presence — not as decoration, but as control. This watch carries that same energy decades later, without leaning on nostalgia.

On the wrist, the experience is immediate. The coil wraps, adapts, and settles, distributing its substantial weight evenly. At roughly 144 grams of 18-carat gold, this is a serious piece of metal, yet it never feels rigid or overwhelming. The quartz movement keeps the profile slim and the wear uncomplicated, allowing the form and material to do the work they were designed to do.

Gold prices continue to climb, and pieces like this quietly occupy a rare middle ground — historically important, visually unmistakable, and materially significant. The value here isn’t theoretical. A large portion of it is already present in the weight on your wrist.

This Serpenti Tubogas isn’t chasing relevance. It already has it. It belongs to a lineage that never needed permission to exist, only the confidence to coil forward.