2023-05-30 19:56:29
Nautilus, Bowers & Wilkins’ iconic loudspeaker celebrates its 30th anniversary
The high-end loudspeaker with an exceptional design, has been handcrafted and made to order in the Bowers & Wilkins factory in Worthing for 30 years. To mark this milestone, Bowers & Wilkins has designed a unique pair of Nautilus speakers featuring an exclusive iridescent Abalone Pearl finish.
The colorway recalls the color of the inner shell of the marine mollusk that inspired the Nautilus name. of the company, John Bowers, who started the Nautilus project shortly before his death, and the chief engineer who ultimately made that legacy a reality, Laurence Dickie. : Make a loudspeaker that does not sound like a loudspeaker. Armed with an exceptionally broad specification, with no time constraints and few limitations related to practicality or cost, Nautilus emerged as a concept come true, a radical five-year project to explore how the many negative effects of a loudspeaker cabinet could be eliminated through a truly innovative design.
The result was a revolution in loudspeaker engineering with the introduction of the exponentially tapered tube principle into loudspeaker design. The Nautilus tube was awarded a Queen’s Award for Innovation and was just one of many advances that were developed as part of the Nautilus project and which would influence all future design of all products manufactured by our company. Together with the equally remarkable 801 – the choice of music industry professionals worldwide – Nautilus has been a key element in Bowers & Wilkins’ rise to the rank of the world’s leading audio brand.
Ironically, 30 years later, the Nautilus is still made the same way. Indeed, the company has elevated audiophile loudspeaker manufacturing to new industrial standards of automated precision. And yet, the construction of a pair of Nautilus loudspeakers remains a very meticulous and above all entirely manual process. Just building a speaker cabinet takes more than a week – not including sanding, painting or polishing each speaker. It’s no wonder, then, that demand for Nautilus has consistently exceeded supply over its 30-year history: the waiting list for a new pair currently stands at two years.
Nothing in audio looks or sounds like Nautilus, which remains an icon of radical thought and revolutionary design to this day. The pair’s 30th anniversary Abalone Pearl finish is a stunning celebration of one of the most legendary speakers ever created.
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