Darkmoon 44mm Red Glass IPB
- Hand-finishedLucca, IT
- IndependentLucca, IT · est. 2000
- Service for lifeThrough Palladio · in person
A choice we can defend in person.
Italian, oversized and entirely without apology: that is U-Boat, founded in Lucca in 2000 by Italo Fontana, whose family were drawing watch designs in the 1940s. It is a house that builds watches to be seen and is candid about the ambition. We hold a few because a portion of our clientele wants a wrist that speaks first, and we prefer to answer that plainly.
The Darkmoon 44mm Red Glass IPB places red glass over the oil-filled dial within an all-black IP case, the contrast of warm lens against dark body giving the watch unusual depth. The locking-ring system makes battery replacement quick. A study in how a single tinted element can recast a face.
Hand-finished, made to be serviced.
Hand-assembled, regulated, and finished to the manufacture’s own standard.
Servicing is organised through us and the manufacture, and the watch comes back to your wrist — with a loaner in the meantime.
The watch, by the number.
The case
- Diameter
- 44 mm
- Material
- Stainless steel AISI 316L
- Case back
- Innovative locking system (Locking ring system)
- Crystal
- Domed sapphire
The dial
- Dial
- Black painted metal, hands and indexes in white colour
Strap & water
- Water resistance
- 50 mt, 5 ATM
- Strap
- Ultra-resistant vulcanised rubber, in black color
A relationship, not a transaction.
Every watch we sell stays close to us. We organise servicing, source straps, and answer the telephone ourselves — for as long as the watch is yours, and the wrist after that.
When the time comes, we arrange the full service through U-Boat, handle the shipping both ways, and put a loaner on your wrist while you wait.
Replacement straps and bracelets at cost, in any material the manufacture offers, fitted in person at the bench.
You speak to Jason — for a warranty question, a service interval, or simply a second opinion — for as long as you own the watch.
When your watch is at service we will put another independent on your wrist, so the wrist is never empty.
Hold it once. Turn it over.
A watch makes more sense in the hand than on a screen — particularly through the sapphire back. Book a viewing at 900 West Hastings St., Vancouver and we will put a loupe in your hand.
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