The ultimate loudspeaker
Nothing looks, or sounds, quite like Nautilus™. A revolution when it launched and still an icon today. Its ethos informs everything Bowers & Wilkins do. Nautilus comes in three standard colours: midnight blue, black, and silver.
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The long, tapered damping tubes were a revolution, allowing the drive units to work optimally by gently absorbing stray energy.
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Nautilus is hand-built to order, alongside the 800 Series Diamond™, by a dedicated specialist team in Bowers & Wilkins’ Worthing factory.
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Constructing the complex shapes and precision drive units demands decades of experience and exacting attention to detail.
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Shaped by sound
At a glance, you can see Nautilus is no ordinary speaker, and after almost a quarter of century it still defines high-end audio.
Infinite colours
Nautilus comes in three standard colours: silver, black and midnight blue. But, as befits such a unique speaker, Bowers & Wilkins also offer a special service that can match any colour you specify.
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Nautilus is more than a design object: its technology is now found in almost every speaker we make.
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Seen in design museums as well as listening rooms, Nautilus received the Millennium Award and many more accolades.
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Innovative design, precision manufacturing and exhaustive testing ensure Nautilus delights the ear as well as the eye.
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Setting the standard for the future
The striking spirals and tubes of Nautilus came from Bowers & Wilkins’ research into making speaker drive units behave as they wanted: this Nautilus Tube™ technology, for which they won a Queen’s Award for Innovation, is now found in almost every speaker they make.
Thinking beyond the box
Nautilus is quite unlike a conventional box speaker: to package their unique Nautilus tubes for use in the home, Bowers & Wilkins’ designers developed the striking, and space-efficient, spiral form from which the speaker takes its name.
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But why the Nautilus tube?
We want to hear a speaker driver, not its side-effects – conventional boxes contain sound from the rear of the driver, but bring their own problems. Nautilus tapering tubes soak up wayward energy and reduce resonances to the point of insignificance.