Yes, Vanvooren did this car in the style of Figoni et Falaschi, no doubt about it. You'd be amazed how hard it is on a car to spend time traveling from show to show and how poorly they often get treated at an event. You'd think the life of a trailer queen would be very easy on a car, but it's far from that. Waiting until the last minute for this sort of thing is, unfortunately, the nature of the beast. Not that that makes it any less frustrating at times, but it's what we deal with.
Yes, a DA buffer is essentially an orbital in that it both rotates and oscillates the pad, but the tools we used are far from the sort of 10" pad tools found at auto parts stores for $40. Those just don't have the power to do any real work and are really only good for applying wax, if that. The microfiber pads are something Meguiar's introduced about 3 years ago and they give a good DA buffer the cutting ability of a rotary, but without the very real potential for damage that a rotary can do in the hands of a novice. It's a great system, and it really proved its worth on this car. I've been doing this long enough, and on enough very expensive and rare cars, that I don't worry about burning through. I'm always extremely aware of what's going on and will pay very close attention to progress, preferring to take my time to get it right rather than just looking to get the job done as fast as possible. It's a bit of a balance, but on very expensive cars you err on the side of caution and take that extra bit of time, evaluating very closely as you go. But if you're using a "best practices" approach all the time, then it doesn't really matter if you're working on a $15,000,000 piece of art like this, or a used Toyota Corolla. You just get into the habit of paying very close attention.

The last shot in my original post is the car in our booth this year, just a few days after we detailed her. It got a lot of coverage though a wide variety of outlets. How could it not? It's a freakin' $15,000,000 Bugatti!!!