From the archive · Watches · 13 May 2013

Happy Sport Diamantissimo by Chopard

For twenty years, Chopard Happy Sport watches seduce women who like contemporary watches, bold and somewhat unexpected. To celebrate this anniversary, this iconic collection is enriched with the addition of a new Happy Sport, a unique piece, a work of art, which condenses in one watch all the expertise of the jeweler and watchmaker Chopard.

In 1993 Caroline Scheufele created one of the icons of the House Chopard Happy Sport watch. Since then, in various versions, sometimes with humor and always with elegance, the Happy Sport has lived under numerous identities, each ever more evocative than the last: Happy Beach, La Vie en Rose, Happy Spirit, Mystery Pink …

Today, to celebrate the anniversary of their most beautiful diamonds, which evolve released some exquisite millimeters above areas, Chopard Happy Sport discloses an exceptional. This is a “masterpiece” 18k white gold, set with 958 baguette-cut diamonds and 1978 diamonds, totaling 65 carats, animated by a manufacture movement LUC 96.17-L. The Happy Sport Diamantissimo epitomizes the best of the two specialties of expertise of Chopard: the Haute Joaillerie and Haute Horlogerie.

Authentic achievement, the realization of this watch – Jewel has required no less than 4500 hours of work to the various craftsmen and specialists who have taken part in its realization. Of these hours, 1700 have been used exclusively in the work setting. The dial, case and strap links have been decorated according to a crimping technique known as ‘invisible’, especially hard to master, and requires that each of the stones are perfectly carved and fitted into the other, so So, at the sight, appears continuous diamond surface, without being able to appreciate it as little space or no visible crimping claw. The visual effect of such a technique is impressive and gives the feeling that the diamonds are linked together without gold.

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