Flavio Cobolli wears the Bianchet Tourbillon at the Roland-Garros final

Since the Australian Open, the UltraFino Tonneau has never left his wrist. A flying tourbillon of exceptional shock resistance, and a statement of style and excellence at the heart of a remarkable rise.

Bianchet, the Swiss independent haute horlogerie Maison, is pleased to announce its partnership with Flavio Cobolli as brand ambassador. One of the most compelling figures in world tennis, nicknamed il gladiatore by the Italian press, the Roman player who embodies a rare alliance of power, precision and elegance, joins the Bianchet family.

 From Melbourne To Paris

This partnership did not begin today. Since January, the watch has accompanied Flavio at every stage of his season: Melbourne, Acapulco, Miami, Madrid, Rome, Munich, and now the Roland-Garros final.

At the Monte-Carlo Masters, he played with the UltraFino Monaco in white quartz fibre, in the colors of the Principality, alongside Bianchet ambassadors Alexander Bublik and Nicolai Budkov Kjær. Three players, the same watch, and one shared conviction, that performance and style do not compete, they bring out the best in each other. At Roland-Garros, he faced Zverev in a spectacular with the UltraFino Tonneau in carbon on his wrist. Because that is what Bianchet has set out to prove since its very beginnings: that a flying tourbillon engineered to withstand 5,000 G can also be the most refined, most harmonious object a watchmaker has ever placed on a wrist. The court never lies, and Flavio Cobolli is its most eloquent proof.

 Il Gladiatore

 Born in Florence on 6 May 2002 and raised in Rome, Flavio Cobolli has established himself as one of the most feared players on the circuit. The Italian press dubbed him il gladiatore, for his courage, his combativeness, his absolute refusal to yield. But what strikes you about him is as much the how as the what: an attacking, incisive game carried by a natural elegance you recognise at first glance. Today he stands at world No. 10, his best ATP ranking to date.

The 2026 season tells this story with eloquence. A third ATP title in Acapulco, a final at the BMW Open in Munich, and on June 7th, a first Grand Slam final at Roland-Garros, reached after eliminating Felix Auger-Aliassime on Philippe-Chatrier in four sets, in 3 hours and 24 minutes of battle. Italy has secured a men’s singles finalist for the second consecutive year, an unprecedented feat in the Open Era. Cobolli will be one of the players who made it happen.

But Flavio Cobolli is not only a warrior on court. He is also a team champion: a driving force behind the Italian side that won the 2025 Davis Cup, where he saved seven match points against Zizou Bergs in the semi-final before sealing the final victory against Spain.

 A Return To Roots

This partnership carries a particular resonance for Bianchet. The Swiss Maison, founded in Neuchâtel, has deep Italian roots, as its founder and CEO, Rodolfo Festa Bianchet, is Italian. Before founding Bianchet in 2017 with his wife Emmanuelle, he had built his entrepreneurial career through a fintech company whose forecasting algorithm was grounded in the Fibonacci sequence and the Golden Ratio,  the very mathematical principle that governs the proportions of Bianchet watches to this day. That thread, running from a Roman on the clay courts of Paris back to the foundations of the Maison itself, is what gives this partnership its deepest meaning.

For a watchmaking company founded and carried forward as a family by Rodolfo and Emmanuelle Festa Bianchet — whose three sons have since joined the venture — Flavio’s passion, his fighting spirit, and that Italian elegance visible in his every gesture resonate with a profound and genuine authenticity.

” Since I started wearing the UltraFino, the watch has lived through every victory, every defeat, every difficult moment of my journey. At this point, it is part of me on court. Because in competition, everything shows : your level of play, your character, what you wear on your wrist. I would never have worn a watch I did not believe could hold up. “

— Flavio Cobolli, Bianchet Ambassador

The Watches He Wears In Tournament

At Roland-Garros, Flavio Cobolli wore the UltraFino Tonneau, an automatic tourbillon in high-density carbon, entirely hand-finished. With its 8.9 mm profile and a total weight of just 46 grams including the strap, the watch disappears on the wrist, yet withstood every serve, every volley, every two-handed backhand. The exclusive high-density carbon composite, engineered to resist shocks of up to 5,000 G, protects the flying tourbillon, the suspended barrel and the gold rotor through an advanced anti-shock architecture, without ever compromising the hand-finishing that fine watchmaking demands.

Behind this exceptional shock resistance lies a great technical challenge: the Bianchet UT01 caliber with Flying Tourbillon is not a manually wound complication but an automatic one, whose rotor introduces through its own inertia a considerable additional variable in shock management. An obstacle that very few watchmakers have dared to take on.

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