Independents

With the arrival of my “piece unique” and a stunning dark blue aventurine dial made by a master dial maker that Lundis Bleus uses - Daniel Haas. I’m chuffed to bits.

Looking very cool. Can you tell us anything more about your decision to get this particular watch as I think our community would be interested. 

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.

And that the movement being adjusted by an accomplished watchmaker as well! Reminds me a bit of my Camry with the same V6 engine that Lotus uses…. Although in my case I didn’t get the tuned up engine. Anyways, congratulations and good on you for the sobriety!

I love Aventurine dials a lot and yours is blending beautiful with that case . Wear it in best of health

How long from start to finish? Thanks Art

and had been sent back for a service. The decision to change the dial and hands was made shortly after the watch was received back in CH. That was in December 21.

Lovely dial. Cheers, Filip

I have always been attracted to aventurine dial, but never had the opportunity to try one out. Your wrist shot does provide details and texture of the dial. Congrats - simply amazing.

The base is actually dark blue rather than black as it appears here. When light catches it it literally sparkles with flashes of white, bright blue, orange, red. It’s so hard to properly capture the effect and my photo isn’t good at all!

I can make up the blue - for me the pic looks realistic. Is the blue lighter in real life?

you can see it’s not actually black but very very dark blue. So it’s appearance most of the time is that of black.

Thanks for describing. Very helpful !

I'm surprised it's not used more, IMO it is underrated.