Bulgari Serpenti watches

The Bulgari Serpenti is the Roman jeweller's snake watch. Bulgari introduced its first Serpenti bracelet-watches as the 1940s came to a close. In the 1960s, Serpenti designs had coloured enamel and stones, rubies and diamonds among them, set into the serpent's scales, and in 2009, the year of Bulgari's 125th anniversary, the snake returned as the emblem of the Serpenti collection.

Serpenti Tubogas models have 35 mm heads in steel, in pink, yellow or white gold, or in steel and pink gold. Dials run from silver and black to fully diamond-paved, and some have a gem-set bezel.

The Serpenti Spiga takes its design from an ear of wheat and brings ceramic into the line, with Bulgari's Tubogas technique applied to ceramic links. It combines ceramic with steel or pink gold on a 35 mm case, with a black or white dial and a gem-set bezel on some. The Serpenti Skin is smaller: a 27 mm steel or pink gold case with a green, black, red or mother-of-pearl dial, and a gem-set bezel on some.