Chiming the Hours: Chopard Unveils the L.U.C Strike One, a Passage au Sonnerie
The Chopard Manufacture celebrates the 25th anniversary of the L.U.C collection with a Sonnerie au Passage, which is limited to 25 pieces. The timepiece has its entrance in a rose gold case made of ethical gold with a diameter of 40mm and a svelte height of 9.86mm. The L.U.C Strike One, which chimes the hour on a patented monobloc sapphire gong, has also been awarded the prestigious Geneva Seal and carries a COSC chronometer certificate.
The L.U.C Strike One timepiece echoes the aesthetic codes of the sophisticated L.U.C XPS 1860 model, starting with its solid gold dial in ruthenium gray, bearing a snailed outer circle and a hand-guilloché center adorned with a refined honeycomb pattern.
At 1 o’clock, the dial features a cut-out revealing the mirror-polished steel hammer that generates the chime. The periphery of the dial bears a railway-type minutes track, engraved on the sapphire crystal. Just below this lay the one component that makes the L.U.C Strike One so exclusive: a monobloc sapphire gong.
The chime-in-passing mechanism rings out only when the minutes hand reaches 12 o’clock. Twenty-four times a day, on the hour, its hammer is automatically armed and strikes the gong, just once.
To perfect its sound quality, Chopard collaborated with violinist Renaud Capuçon and his brother, cellist Gautier Capuçon, as well as Professor Romain Boulandet, head of the Applied Acoustics Laboratory at Geneva’s HEPIA engineering school...
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