Tubogas or Belle Époque
Bulgari · Damiani
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.
Belle Époque
Round diamonds alternating with rubies, sapphires or emeralds round a band, like frames on a reel of film running past.
Screen glamour runs through both. Belle Époque comes from sketches Enrico Grassi Damiani made after a trip to Paris, a tribute to the city's 1920s film muses, its diamonds and coloured stones passing round the band like frames on a reel. Tubogas found stars of its own: the coil Bulgari first wound in 1941 framed Monete coins on chokers, one of them owned by Frank and Barbara Sinatra. In Damiani's band the gold is a setting for colour, and in the Roman coil it does the work alone.
| Fact | Tubogas | Belle Époque |
|---|---|---|
| Introduced | 1941 | — |
| Designer | — | Enrico Grassi Damiani (original sketches) |
| School | Rome | Milan & Valenza |
| Materials | yellow gold, rose gold, white gold, diamond | white gold, rose gold, yellow gold, diamond, ruby, sapphire, emerald |
| Moves | No | No |
| From | €9,800 | Not published |
| Top of line | €15,400 | — |
Prices in euros as published by each house, October 2026.
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