What is totally new on the Bel Canto Lumière is the approach to the dial. Subtle it is not, with a healthy application of lume all throughout, even down the strap. The top time-telling dial on the Lumière features high contrast, with the darkness of a smoked sapphire disc topped by a three-dimensional blue Globolight ring, as well as Globolight tips on the brushed and skeletonized hands.
Underneath this disc is the base dial plate, which we’ve typically seen in all arrays of sunray brushing and guilloché. This time around, Christopher Ward opts for a vivid sunray-brushed dial to match the blue of the Globolight, but prints broad lines of faint blue Super-LumiNova set in a radiant sunray pattern. For just a bit more visual interest in the dark, the inner sector ring of the printed Super-LumiNova emits green while everything else radiates blue.