With its own unique design language and eccentric aesthetics, the Bulgari Diagono has developed its own cult following.
To the delight of tool-watch aficionados like ourselves, the Bulgari Diagono Professional Scuba takes that same unconventional format and turns the dial up to eleven.
This example, a Reference SD 42, is unabashedly robust. It features a 42mm stainless steel case equipped with a chunky, fully-graduated timing bezel with large circular grooves for easy grip, and has become inextricably linked as part of its design panache. Complemented by a domed sapphire crystal, an unsigned crown flanked by crown guards and a Helium Escape Valve at 9 o’clock, this piece means business below the surface, boasting a whopping 2000 meter water resistance rating.
On the more conservative side of things, its luminous matte black dial features Arabic indices at 12 and 6 o’clock, circular applied hour indices, a date window at 3 o’clock and a sword/arrow combination handset.
Utilizing an integrated rubber strap system built with the brand’s signature steel articulating links and a stainless steel deployant buckle, this might be the coolest Diagono we’ve come across to date!
Thanks in part to its relative dial/case proportion balance (much like our all-time favorite ), this watch wears surprisingly well on smaller wrists as well as larger. And with legitimate technical chops that stands up against any other out there, the Diagono Professional Scuba is way more than just a fashion piece. In an alternate universe in which Captain Cousteau wore a Bulgari, this would surely be the one.