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for more details. Over the past few years, stone dials have seemingly popped up everywhere.

More modern brands are making them. At the same time, vintage examples have become

more collectible and seen big jumps and prices. But stone dials are still a relatively

undiscovered corner of watch collecting. They're not well understood on the vintage or modern side.

So I wanted to cover them on Houdiki. Typically we do this by talking to a few experts in the space

and synthesizing that into an in-depth article.

But I decided to try something different this time around, hitting record on three conversations to learn about modern stone dial production, vintage collecting, and everything in between.

I hope all three of these conversations help to give you a better understanding of stone dials.

Without further ado, here's another episode of Haudinkie Radio.

Our first guest is Pierre Bavere.

In 2023, Pierre joined his father, industry legend Jean-C. Bavard to launch J.C. Bavere.

The brand launched with the Carillon-Torbion, a complex and modern celebration of hot horology. This year,

Bavere has just introduced the Automatique, a similarly high-end three-hander. With each release,

the brand has also celebrated Stone Dials, releasing limited editions with Epsidian, Mother of Pearl,

and Peter Sight. So Pierre was the perfect guest to have on to talk about Stone Dials. Pierre,

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