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Chopard L.U.C Lunar One

Posted by wristwatch on October 3, 2007

The “L.U.C LUNAR ONE” watch is equipped with the mechanical self-winding “L.U.C 96 QP” movement, chronometer-certified by the COSC and carrying the “Poinçon de Genève” quality hallmark. It has a power-reserve of approximately 70 hours. Endowed with a perpetual calendar, its dial displays the date (through a double large date window at 12 o’clock), the day of the week, the leap year and a 24-hour indication.

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Chopard L.U.C Extra Plate

Posted by wristwatch on September 5, 2007

Chopard provides an admirable lesson in elegance through a new ultra-thin watch now enriching its L.U.C Haute Horlogerie collection. This paragon of understated refinement, crafted in yellow or white gold, comes with a choice of two dials featuring contrasting styles.

Accommodating a self-winding movement equipped with two barrels and an almost 70-hour power-reserve within an ultra-thin case is no small achievement. The watchmakers at the Manufacture Chopard in Fleurier have achieved this feat by means of a clever construction featuring an off-centred rotor. The designers also entirely remodelled the round case with its broad diameter (39.55) to give it a sleeker, more streamlined profile with a flat bezel and extremely slender caseband. This creative work has resulted in lighter, dynamic and timeless lines creating a superbly balanced overall effect. To suit the tastes of men with a penchant for elegance, Chopard offers its new L.U.C. Extra Plate with a choice of two highly legible, uncluttered dial versions. Two faces, two styles: classicism revisited on the white dial, with its black minute track and finely traced Roman numerals; and contemporary elegance on the black dial graced with four Arabic numerals and rhodium-plated “baton” hands. The Dauphine style hands in a colour matching the yellow or white gold of the case point with restrained simplicity to the hours and minutes, reflecting the peerless precision of the L.U.C*** Manufacture-made movement. The grand art of simplicity, bearing the unmistakable Chopard signature.

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Chopard L.U.C Tech Régulateur

Posted by wristwatch on August 31, 2007

Breaking new bounds to astonish everyone: seldom has this constant Chopard theme found a finer illustration than in the new L.U.C Tech Regulator in steel with its unusual display and skeleton dial. A watch with an elegant, technical and sporty look, made in a limited series of just 250 timepieces.

Two years ago, Chopard gained the distinction of miniaturizing the famous regulator mechanism to the size of a wristwatch. Regulator is the term used to denote the master clocks by which the manufactures used to adjust their timepieces. For easier reading, the hours, minutes and seconds were displayed on separate axes. This technical prowess and the originality of the display won the L.U.C Quattro Régulateur the title of “Watch of the Year 2004″. Today, Chopard has reinterpreted this model, already a classic, in a new version allying modernity and audacity. Gold has given way to steel in the round case with its minimalist lines. The pierced dial enables the technical details of the movement to be glimpsed. The regulator displays with the minutes in the centre, hours at 3 o’clock and seconds at 6 o’clock compose an astonishing geometry enlivened by a fine play of colours and by the use of “Dauphine” hands in hollowed out blued steel. The display is completed at 9 o’clock by a second 24 hour time zone with day and night segments adjustable by means of a pushpiece. The L.U.C four barrel movement, manufactured by Chopard in Fleurier with a COSC chronometer certificate, has an 8 day power-reserve which is displayed on the dial at 12 o’clock. Its exclusive finish with fine straight line Côtes de Genève pattern and a rhodium-plated décor can be admired through a transparent case back. This new timepiece will delight collectors and devotees of eminently contemporary watches.

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Chopard L.U.C 1.02 Quattro Tourbilon

Posted by wristwatch on August 31, 2007

First “L.U.C” watch equipped with the calibre “L.U.C 1.02″ with Tourbillon. Available in two limited and numbered series: limited numbered edition of 100 in 18ct. rose gold and limited numbered edition of 100 in 950 platinum.

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Chopard “Mille Miglia GT XL Chrono” 2007 Chronograph Limited edition

Posted by wristwatch on August 31, 2007

The Mille Miglia (Thousand Miles)  was an open-road endurance race which took place in Italy twenty-four times from 1927 to 1957 (thirteen before the war, eleven from 1947). The Chopard “Mille Miglia GT XL Chrono” is the newest in a long line of Mille Miglia series of Chopard.

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