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    • Of quartz movement, the circular dial and bezel set with baguette-cut diamonds, with  white gold hands,  with inverted diamond-set crown and lugs, back secured by six screws, with baguette-cut diamond buckle, mounted in 18K white gold.

    • Signed 'Chopard', with Swiss assay marks, no. 39/3276-20 472497 4161. With a blue leather Chopard box.

  • Artist Biography

    Chopard

    Swiss • 1860

    At the age of 24, Louis-Ulysse Chopard started his company L.U.C. Chopard in Sonviller, Switzerland. Since the brand's inception in 1860, Chopard understood the need for thin and accurate pocket watches to be functional for daily wear. The brand gained world recognition in 1912 after Tsar Nicolas II became a client.

    Following Louis-Ulysse's death in 1915, his sons Paul-Louis and Paul André took over the business and moved their headquarters to La Chaux-de-Fonds. In 1963, the company was taken over by Karl Scheufele, who remains the brand's owner. Arguably Chopard's most recognizable design, the "Happy" line, was inspired by Scheufele's daughter Caroline. In 1996, his son Karl-Friedrich established Chopard as a manufacturer of its own range of in-house movements under the name L.U.C., creating groundbreaking, exquisitely finished watches that have earned the brand worldwide acclaim.

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A Diamond 'Imperiale' Wristwatch

Of quartz movement, the circular dial and bezel set with baguette-cut diamonds, with  white gold hands,  with inverted diamond-set crown and lugs, back secured by six screws, with baguette-cut diamond buckle, mounted in 18K white gold.
Signed 'Chopard', with Swiss assay marks, no. 39/3276-20 472497 4161. With a blue leather Chopard box.

Estimate
CHF3,500 - 4,500 

Sold for CHF41,250

Magnificent Jewels

18 Nov 2008, 4pm
Geneva