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I'm so glad this topic popped back up. I'm new here and hadn't seen it. Blue is probably my favorite dial color, in contention with champagne.

Even so, looking through my collection I appear to only have 4 watches with blue dials. Then again, my collection seems like it's probably puny compared to some of you here.

In order of acquisition:

Seiko SNKK45 ("Seikonaut"):
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Seiko SNZH53:
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Grand Seiko SBGA375 (it's hard to coax the blue out of this one - it looks black most of the time - had to get in bright sunlight for this picture):
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Bulova Precisionist 96B257:
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The crystal on this 404 club blue dialled Accurist got swapped this evening, so I figured it was time to show off the improvement. 

It is a complete smudge and dust magnet now, as you can see. No sooner had I popped it on my wrist than it was sporting a big thumbprint and some instant air bourne speckles. Despite all that, the blue dial is pretty impressive without all of those distracting scratches.

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Here it is under the inspection lamp, with the old crystal for comparison.

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