MOVEMENTS
Watchmaking companies capable of conceiving and manufacturing their own movements are a rare breed indeed. ...
alternativeWatchmaking companies capable of conceiving and manufacturing their own movements are a rare breed indeed. However, this was precisely what Louis-Ulysse Chopard set his mind on back in 1860. Some one hundred and thirty years later, Karl-Friedrich Scheufele decided to revive this entrepreneurial spirit by creating an exclusive calibre that would enable Chopard to regain its original status as an authentic manufacture. The highly ambitious and challenging project entailed important investments and a considerable amount of work and skill. After three busy years of research and development, Chopard was at last able to present its first watch with an in-house calibre in 1997. This innovative movement features a double-barrel system (L.U.C Twin technology) providing a power reserve of over 65 hours, as well as an off-centred 22-carat gold micro-rotor. It was soon followed by other significant feats, such as L.U.C Calibre 1.98 Quattro, the world first wristwatch movement with four barrels, totalling a power reserve of approximately 9 days. Not forgetting the innovative chronometer-certified L.U.C Calibre 1.02 Tourbillon, rightly considered a masterpiece of the watchmaking art, the L.U.C Calibre 96 QP, a perpetual calendar featuring an unprecedented orbital moon-phase display and the L.U.C Calibre 11CF, a column-wheel flyback chronograph movement boasting four innovative systems for which patents have been filed. L.U.C timepieces are all fitted with COSC-certified chronometer movements. Some also bear the famous Poinçon de Genève quality hallmark or the Fleurier Quality Foundation certification. L.U.C watches show how the measure of time was invented for connoisseurs who value perfection and precision. BACK TO THE L.U.C COLLECTION