Lifestyle Watches are pleased to offer to market this stunning 2025 Awake Son Mai Frosted Leaf in blue, a limited production watch with ours being no 8 of 50 pieces made. A young French brand, Awake Watches was founded by Lilian Thibault in 2019 with the idea to raise awareness of our planet’s limited resources. Last year, Awake released Son Mài, its first permanent collection of four time-only references illustrating the art of ancestral Vietnamese sanded lacquer paired with the application of pure silver leaf gilding. Based on this more compelling concept, the brand now releases a new take on the Asian métiers d’art, with the Son Mài “Frosted Leaf” Collection. The dials are done using traditional Vietnamese métiers d’art techniques. It all begins with sap from the Rhus Verniciflua tree in northern Vietnam, whose brilliant natural lacquer forms the base of each dial. Master lacquerers first apply black pigments, followed by a layer of pure silver leaf, hand-sanded to reveal the initial textures. Next comes a veil of dark pigments, before the key step in our exclusive technique, Frosted Leaf. Unlike traditional dials, a second layer of silver is added here, then covered with lighter pigments. This layered material is then finger-sanded to reveal buried layers, creating effects of depth and light that are unique to each piece. Finally, several coats of lacquer are patiently applied, sanded, and polished to lock in a timeless shine. It is, altogether, a 15-hour process per dial. The Awake Son Mai Frosted Leaf is available in three colours, blue, green and moka, paying tribute to oceans, forests, and fertile lands. Then, Awake adds its signature hands and applied markers. Instead of applying lume to the top surfaces of the hands and indices, Awake reverts the formula. The hands and indices are made from a thin, solid base of SLN BGW9, machined and then capped with a faceted, polished steel overlay, functioning like a backlight. Awake gave its S? N Mài collection Swiss power, replacing the Miyota movements with an automatic La Joux-Perret G101. This three-hand movement assembled in La Chaux-de-Fonds runs at a 4Hz frequency and delivers a robust 68-hour power reserve. The movement, classically decorated with Geneva stripes and a customised tungsten rotor, is framed by a laser-engraved “Clous de Paris” motif ring, marked with the limited edition number. Box & Papers Present. Hand crafted silver leaf lacquered blue dial. Automatic La Joux-Perret G101 – 68 hour power reserve. Light grey nubuck leather strap lined with rubber (20-16mm) made by Delugs.