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Sure - it all started actually back in 2016

I was looking to buy a watch that I could celebrate my first anniversary of giving up the booze. I'm not sure how I first came across them but their story of how the brand was created, and the fact that the logo is a stylised alcohol molecule, had a direct relevance to my reason for buying. At the time they had limited offerings and I went with a grey coloured dial and rose gold plated hands. The purchase included a free service at 5 years and as I packed it top to send it off I noticed that the hands had become quite discoloured. Now by this time LB had massively expanded their range of dial offerings, and I saw the chance to maybe "upgrade" mine to something different altogether. Bastien (the proprietor of LB) was only too happy to oblige and after several provisional drawings of dial options this one was voted as the favourite among my friends. The dial itself is made from an old piece of Murano by a well known dial maker Daniel Haas (you'll see the exact same dials cut from the same piece in many Jacqquet Droz watches).
At the time I originally purchased the watch another thing that was of interest is the use of a Japanese Miyota movement. This was simply because Bastien and Johann (the founders of LB) just couldn't afford a Swiss option, although now LB uses Sellita movements. To me this was irrelevant as the 9015 was fine tuned by Johann who also worked at Renaud Papi for Richard Mille.
Just to sum up the photo makes it look quite black but actually it's a very dark blue, and it's almost impossible to capture what you really see when moving the watch around.