Chopard L.U.C Triple Certification Tourbillon
Chopard announces the new L.U.C Triple Certification Tourbillon, the first watch to bear Swiss Official Chronometer Testing Institute certificate COSC, Poinçon de Genève and Fleurier Quality Foundation label.
The L.U.C Triple Certification Tourbillon comes in a 43 mm diameter 18k rose gold case. The lugs are polished and satin-brushed and have been designed to ensure enhanced comfort. The crown, engraved with the L.U.C logo, is slim while remaining ergonomic.
The dial is silver-toned and grained in order to catch the light, it contrasts with the rhodiumed black hands representing a personalised version of the " Dauphine " style. The hours are marked by delicately applied black rhodiumed Roman numerals inspired by the 1960s and topped by a minute track.
The hand-wound manufacture L.U.C Calibre 02-13-L (L.U.C 1.02QF) is not only the world's first movement with triple certification, it is also the world's only movement to be fitted with four stacked and series-coupled barrels ensuring a full nine days of operating autonomy. Functions include central hours, minutes, a power-reserve display at 12 o'clock and small seconds on the one-minute tourbillon visible at 6 o'clock.
The Poinçon de Genève quality hallmark demands strict compliance with 12 criteria ranging from the making of individual parts to the finishing of components, along with the nature of the materials as well as movement construction and assembly.
The COSC is the only neutral body entitled to grant the title of "Chronometer". The latter depends on the rating precision of a movement, which undergoes a battery of tests lasting a full 15 days and conducted in five different positions and at three different temperatures. To earn "Chronometer" certification, a movement must have been the object of particular care devoted by the finest watchmakers and precision timers during its assembly process.
The Fleurier Quality Foundation certification is undoubtedly the hardest to obtain. In addition to the COSC tests, it also includes those of the Chronofiable testing procedure, which simulates six-month wear in just 21 days in order to attest to the long-term sturdiness of a movement by subjecting it to strains such as impacts and variations in humidity; as well as the Fleuritest, which reproduces 24 hours of wrist movements and is designed to appraise the reliability of definitively cased-up mechanical movements.
Chopard's L.U.C. timepieces are already among the best engineered and most immaculately finished timepieces in the world. This L.U.C. further ups the ante with world first triple certification and a 9-day power reserve courtesy of a first ever four stacked and series-coupled barrel configuration.
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