Every coating we have ever applied carried a promise. The question was how long that promise should hold. From this season, the answer is the same for every full detail that leaves the studio: nine years, in writing, on our longest-lasting ceramic.
The decision was not a launch. It was a simplification. We had spent years applying several ceramic systems side by side, and one of them kept outlasting the rest — on daily drivers, on collection cars, on everything that lives with the Côte d'Azur sun. We retired the others.
“A warranty is not a marketing figure. It is the length of time we are willing to be responsible.”
Why nine years
The number was not chosen; it was observed. Nine years is how long our reference coating has demonstrably held its gloss, its hydrophobic behaviour, and its resistance to the salt air and UV of a Mediterranean coastline — with sensible washing and an annual inspection.
Making it standard removes a conversation we never enjoyed: asking an owner to choose between good and better. There is now one coating, one preparation standard, and one signature. Every full detail leaves the bay with the same document — and the same nine years behind it.
What changes for owners
In practice, very little is asked of you. The warranty follows the car, not the invoice: an annual inspection at the studio, sensible washing, and nothing more. If the coating fails within nine years under those conditions, we correct and re-coat the affected panels ourselves.
What changes most is quieter. A coating guaranteed for nine years obliges us to prepare paint as if it will be judged in year eight — because it will be. The warranty is not the product. The preparation it demands is.