Chopard L’Heure du Diamant

A sparkling showcase for Chopard’s watch and jewellery skills

Current trends captured through ancestral watchmaking and jewellery expertise: when all the codes of aesthetic excellence converge, perfection gives way to pure emotion. It is in this spirit that the L’Heure du Diamant collection sums up the wealth of artistic crafts cultivated within Chopard, by artisans ranging from master watchmakers to gemsetters. The collection is reinvented in a new cushion-shaped watch, fashioned from ethical 18-carat white gold, graced with a mother-of-pearl dial and rimmed with diamonds. This creation features the emblematic tree bark-textured gold bracelet sculpted using a proprietary technique and beats to the rhythm of the Chopard 09.01-C self-winding movement. It bears within it the genius of skills patiently nurtured through the years by Chopard’s Artisans of Emotion.

 

A natural-born classic

With L’Heure du Diamant, all the elements contributing to the virtuoso construction of an artwork – encompassing artistic, technical, symbolic, artisanal and heritage dimensions – converge to perfection. Chopard once again demonstrates this wide-ranging prowess through a jewellery watch featuring modern lines and proportions testifying to the extraordinary vitality of its workshops. The cushion-shaped case with its curved sides endows this new creation with an undeniable sense of grandeur which combines with the unique bark-textured strap to revive the inimitable spirit of 1960s glamour, while embedding it firmly in contemporary aesthetic codes.

 

Luminous gemsetting

The absolute purity of the diamond is majestically highlighted by the collection’s emblematic crown setting technique, which exalts the beauty of each of the gems by allowing the light to shine through. This ribbon of diamonds encircling the case lights up a delicate mother-of-pearl dial – itself dotted with 12 diamond hour-markers. Mother-of-pearl with its shimmering reflections provides an extraordinarily vivid mineral echo of the diamond mantle adorning the watch.

A sculpted gold bracelet

The light also plays brilliantly across the tree bark-style bracelet featuring a texture, silky touch and impeccable comfort stemming from unique expertise. Reflecting the plant world, its extremely fine veins lend a special vibrancy to the bracelet, thanks to a close-knit weave giving the ethical 18-carat white gold an incomparably supple and light feel. It follows the curve of the wrist without ever snagging on the fabric of the wearer’s sleeve. This entirely hand-crafted goldwork technique was developed by the Scheufele family in the 1960s. It epitomises the pinnacle of mental and manual brilliance displayed in this jewellery watch, the result of ancestral watchmaking and jewellery skills. This model is also available with a leather strap.

 

Watchmaking and jewellery heritage

Powered by the self-winding Chopard 09.01-C mechanical movement and a 42-hour power reserve entirely produced by Chopard’s watchmakers, this watch testifies to the complementary skills nurtured by the Maison. Jewellery watches are a decades-long speciality of the Scheufele family currently at the helm of Chopard. An ideal blend of beauty and precision, L’Heure du Diamant collection reaps the benefits of this technical virtuosity dedicated to impressive artistic modernity. From designer to watchmaker, from jeweller to gemsetter, and from polisher to watchmaker, these creations are brought to life by the wide-ranging talents of the Maison’s in-house artisans.

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L’Heure du Diamant

In ethical 18-carat white gold

 

 

Case

Ethical 18-carat white gold

Dimensions                                                                                       30.80 x 30.80 mm

Thickness                                                                                          9.30 mm

Water resistance                                                                              30 m

Ethical 18-carat white gold crown set with a briolette-cut diamond

Ethical 18-carat white gold bezel set with brilliant-cut diamonds (4.44 carats)

Glare-proofed sapphire crystal

 

Movement:

Self-winding mechanical movement                                             Chopard 09.01-C

Number of components                                                                  148

Total diameter                                                                                  20.40 mm

Thickness                                                                                          3.65 mm

Number of jewels                                                                 27

Frequency                                                                             25,200 A/h (3.5 Hz)

Power reserve                                                                      42 hours

 

Dial and hands:

White mother-of-pearl dial

Hour-markers set with 12 diamonds

Rhodium-plated hours and minutes hands

 

Functions:

Central hours and minutes

 

Bracelet:

Ethical 18-carat white gold tree bark-textured bracelet or black leather strap

Ethical 18-carat white gold buckle

 

Ref. 10A386-1106 – with ethical 18-carat white gold tree bark-textured bracelet

Ref. 13A386-1106 – with black leather strap