Macri or Tubogas

Buccellati · Bulgari

Macri

Yellow and white gold engraved with thousands of hair-fine parallel rigato lines that catch light like silk moiré, starred with diamonds set in tiny rosettes.

Tubogas

Bulgari

Tubogas

A band of gold wound tightly round itself like the flexible pipe of a gas line, tubo gas, so it springs round the wrist or neck without a hinge.

Gianmaria Buccellati named Macri after his daughter Maria Cristina, joining the first syllables of her two names. Its surface is rigato, thousands of hair-fine parallel lines cut by hand with a chisel, catching light like silk moiré, with small diamonds set among them. Tubogas gets its lines from construction rather than from the engraver: Bulgari's gold band, wound tightly round itself since 1941, shows a ridge for every turn. In Macri a hand cuts the lines into the gold; in Tubogas the lines are what the gold became.

Buccellati Macri vs Bulgari Tubogas, facts side by side
Fact	Macri	Tubogas
Introduced	—	1941
Designer	Gianmaria Buccellati	—
School	Milan & Valenza	Rome
Materials	yellow gold, white gold, rose gold, diamond	yellow gold, rose gold, white gold, diamond
Moves	No	No
From	Not published	€9,800
Top of line	—	€15,400

Prices in euros as published by each house, October 2026.

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