REINVENTING THE CLASSIC SPIRIT
With extreme refinement, the Geneva-based brand redefines the boundaries of classic watchmaking with a green-faced timepiece that beats to the rhythm of a manufacture caliber and benefits from chronometer certification.
Carrying the initials of the man who founded the company in 1860, Louis-Ulysse Chopard (1836-1915), the L.U.C collection embodies the fundamental values of watchmaking, while drawing on the latest technical advances. With the L.U.C XPS Forest Green model, presented at Watches and Wonders 2024 and chronometer-certified by the COSC, the Geneva-based brand co-chaired by Karl-Friedrich Scheufele redefines the boundaries of classicism by combining extreme refinement, recycled steel, a manufacture movement and a graphic configuration typical of the 1930s.
The new watch features the sector dial, in vogue for almost a century and introduced by Chopard in 2005, here dressed in a beautiful intense green and composed of two concentric circles of light hue, one supporting the minutes, the other the hour markers. In the center, two rhodium-plated “fusée“ dauphine-shaped hands indicate the hours and minutes, while at 6 o’clock a small hand in a circular satin-finish counter marks the seconds.
The XPS designation qualifies the height of the movement (XP for extra-thin), the 3.30mm-thick L.U.C 96.12-L caliber with micro-rotor winding and double barrel provides 65 hours of power reserve, and informs of the presence of the seconds (S). Featuring a 40mm-diameter case machined from Lucent SteelTM, a steel with a recycling rate of at least 80% unveiled in 2019 with the Alpine Eagle watch, the L.U.C XPS Forest Green is worn with a hazelnut-colored calfskin strap edged with ecru stitching and fastened with a pin buckle.
