February is considered the month of love and the buzz is all about the kind of gifts we want to give to our beloved. High luxury marque Chopard has numerous options in store. These include haute horlogerie watches such as the different new editions of the Alpine Eagle for men, new editions of the Happy Hearts watch and the Imperiale for the ladies, in addition to haute joaillerie and jewellery offerings. Chopard is also bringing out accessories to match their high-end watches and jewellery
WATCHES
Alpine Eagle
The Alpine Eagle collection now offers a complete range of its two-tone timepiece with a Bernina Grey dial. Available in three diameters of 33, 36 and 41 millimetres respectively, the Alpine Eagle in Lucent Steel A223 and ethical 18-carat rose gold adapts to any wrist.
In creating a two-tone version of the Alpine Eagle timepiece, the Manufacture’s workshops have combined two exceptional precious metals: Lucent Steel A223 and ethical 18-carat rose gold. The former is a highly dermo-compatible, ultra-resistant and extremely luminous Chopard-exclusive steel alloy composed of 70% recycled material. The rose gold is 100% ethically sourced in keeping with Chopard’s July 2018 formal commitment to this principle for all its gold watch and jewellery creations.
The collection is distinguished by textured dials with a radiating pattern evoking an eagle’s iris. The two-tone models feature a dial in Bernina Grey, evoking the rock colour of the eponymous mountain range. This hue strikes an elegant contrast with the gilded numerals, hour-markers and hands indicating the time on this dial.
Whatever the case size, Alpine Eagle timepieces are equipped with self-winding movements endowed with chronometer-certified precision, developed, and entirely produced in-house. The Alpine Eagle 41 model houses Chopard Calibre 01.01-C. Featuring a stop-seconds function ensuring accurate time-setting, it is equipped with a date disc and guarantees a comfortable 60-hour power reserve.
The Alpine Eagle 33 and 36 versions are powered by the Chopard 09.01-C movement, with a 42-hour power reserve. Also equipped with a stop-seconds function, this 9-ligne movement is one of the smallest to earn COSC certification.
Happy Hearts watch
A Maison renowned for its boundless creativity, Chopard has decided to orchestrate an encounter between two of its most iconic collections. The big heart in the Happy Hearts collection finds its place on the playful dial of the Happy Sport, the watchmaking success that has been leading diamonds in a merry dance in a perpetually renewed spirit of joie de vivre. The result of this union is a Happy Hearts timepiece enlivened by three freely dancing diamonds, a red heart, as well as a diamond-set heart.
This timepiece is a joyful new addition to the Maison’s emblematic Happy Hearts jewellery collection, which showcases colourful hearts as well as hearts embracing dancing diamonds. Chopard enriches the collection with this new timepiece by endowing it with a firm expression of its watchmaking expertise. Fitted with a 36 mm stainless steel case and a red alligator leather strap, the Happy Hearts watch features a white dial with a life of its own created by five dancing elements: three diamonds, and above all, both a red and a diamond-set 18-carat white gold heart. This sparkling array stages a truly stunning show on the Happy Hearts dial, conferring the ultimate privilege of observing your watch not merely to tell the time but essentially to admire the incredible ballet performed by these hearts and dancing diamonds.
Imperiale
The Imperiale watch in stainless steel and ethical 18-carat rose gold now wears a new red mantle of sovereign elegance. Synonymous with femininity, the Imperiale collection has been enriched with a 29 mm-diameter timepiece in stainless steel and ethical 18-carat rose gold framing a red dial adorned with the collection’s emblematic motif, paired with a matching leather strap.
The new Imperiale timepiece features a discreet 29 mm diameter and stands out with its glamorous, utterly feminine, and infinitely stylish colour. While remaining loyal to the design of the collection, this model reinvents it in a bi-material version attired in red. The centre of the exquisitely finished sunburst satin-brushed dial is adorned with a translucent pattern reproducing the collection’s emblematic motif. While the entire case is crafted in stainless steel, the ethical 18-carat rose gold lug-covers provide a charming contrast, complemented by gilded hour-markers with a warm shimmer matching the red of the dial.
Chopard is firmly committed to a vertically integrated approach and has therefore equipped this new model with a 149-component self-winding movement entirely developed, produced, and assembled in its workshops: Chopard Calibre 09.01-C, with a 42-hour power reserve.
Inspired by the nobility and beauty of the world’s great empires, the Imperiale collection has become a central element in Chopard’s watchmaking repertoire. Its carefully calculated proportions strike a subtle balance between classicism and modernity, combining exactness and strength with softness and sensuality. The collection’s statuesque silhouette is underlined by refined details recounting the history of imperial grandeur: sword-shaped hands, a crown shaped like a lotus flower and stylised lugs reminiscent of ancient columns. Imperiale showcases Chopard’s dual expertise as a jeweller and watchmaker, symbolising the encounter between glamour and precision.
HAUTE JOAILLERIE
Rainbow heart
The Maison’s workshops interpret their emblematic jewellery lacework in a necklace resembling a dainty ribbon outlining a heart. Above and beyond the formal beauty of this creation, the 75 pear-shaped sapphires composing the heart and chain have been meticulously selected for their colours to form a luminous and soothing rainbow gradient.
The necklace in Fairmined-certified ethical rose gold is delicately openworked to allow the light to flood through the gems, thus enhancing their colour and radiance. In keeping with the design of the Precious Lace collection to which this necklace belongs, the individual sapphires are surrounded by a hem of brilliant-cut diamonds subtly accentuating the rounded end of each stone.
An exceptional ruby
Flamboyant, passionate, and intense, the ruby is the stone of love and feelings. A lifelong lover of precious stones, Caroline Scheufele has selected a vivid red heart-shaped gem with an exceptional weight of more than 18 carats. This stone, extracted from the wealth of the mines of Mozambique, is set in the centre of a Fairmined-certified ethical white gold ring, nestled between two heart-shaped diamonds. Imbued with great creative simplicity, this design conveys all the sincerity of the most beautiful declarations.
JEWELLERY
Happy Hearts Wings
The delicacy of fluttering butterfly wings, the strength of a breath of life. Thanks to the perpetual movement imparted to dancing diamonds by the women who wear them, Happy Hearts Wings transform the world. This free and daintily airy spirit is embodied in a complete set comprising an exquisite necklace, bracelets, earrings, and a ring crafted from ethical 18-carat rose gold, combining dancing diamonds and hearts arranged like butterfly wings.
The scrolling patterns of its wings trace a heart in the air. The butterfly, the ultimate emblem of lightness, has infused all its delicacy and symbolic strength into Happy Hearts Wings. Two gold hearts, arranged like butterfly wings, are suspended from a heart with a dancing diamond nestling inside. The perfect balance of this jewellery creation is a talisman motif interpreted as a complete ethical 18-carat rose gold set. It thus adorns a necklace, a bracelet, a bangle, a pair of earrings, and a ring.
It symbolises the tremendous vitality and infinite power harboured by those who unstintingly give of themselves – the Big-Hearted women so cherished by Chopard. This delicate yet potent driving force takes flight at the heart of Happy Hearts Wings, then spreads its wings and unfurls around the world. A generous token of caring or a radiant smile lights up the entire universe.
My Happy Hearts
Chopard presents a new collection, My Happy Hearts: jewellery nestling against the skin like intimate and subtle lingerie. A constellation of dainty hearts to be worn alone or stacked as stylish accessories, they are discreet emblems of an emancipated generation, and the hallmark of a reinvented relationship with oneself. My Happy Hearts is a gift that we give ourselves – kind and nurturing, like a gentle bubble. The collection borrows its most famous design codes – the heart and the dancing diamonds – from the Maison’s legendary creations, played out in new proportions.
My Happy Hearts is available as necklaces, chain bracelets, rings and earrings based on the principle of a single heart. Crafted in ethical 18-carat rose gold, the heart of each piece of jewellery comes in carnelian or mother-of-pearl versions. The collection’s rings and earrings are also available with a dancing diamond.
The earrings can be acquired individually for greater flexibility and creativity: to be worn alone, in groups on one ear or asymmetrically. Whether a woman is in sneakers or stilettos, at the office or on the beach, My Happy Hearts lends itself to every transformation. In every situation they accompany bursts of life, allowing each individual to invent free-spirited moves in arranging and wearing them. These are hearts in every state and in all directions, stacked head to tail or majestically solo, with the tip of the heart pointing inward.
ACCESSORIES
The Maison’s entire world is reflected in elegant bags, writing instruments, silk scarves and cashmere stoles, as well as leather goods, decorative objects, games, and fragrances. The iconic Happy Diamonds, Ice Cube, Mille Miglia and L.U.C collections inspire these precious objects crafted in the finest European workshops. All the partners involved in these exceptional creations are chosen for the skills they demonstrate in their respective fields, as well as the transparency of their sourcing and production circuit. As a pioneer of ethical gold and a member of the Responsible Jewellery Council, Chopard has long since made a priority of social and environmental responsibility, instilling a sustainable, human-focused dimension into its highly desirable creations.
This year’s accessories include a Happy Hearts red calfskin tote bag with gilded metal shoulder chain, an Imperiale rhodium-plated and gilded metal table clock with luminescent sword-shaped hands and indications, and an Alpine Eagle presentation box in grey maple wood with cufflinks, ballpoint pen and cushion for a matching collector’s watch.
