Swiss 18K yellow gold open faced lever pocket watch Circa 2012
- Kenmerk
- AS2242
- Diameter
- 47 mm
- Estimate
- € 1.500 - 3.000
- Price sold
- € 1.900
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A Swiss 18 carat gold open faced keyless lever pocket watch, circa 2012. This watch features a 20 jewelled lever movement and a white enamel dial adorned with Roman numerals, outer minute markers, subsidiary dial for the seconds, and black spade hands. Its plain 18 carat yellow gold case has a snap on back engraved with EL. The case, dial, and movement are all signed. The watch comes with a Chopard Certificate of Origin and a presentation box.
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Diameter: 47 mm
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Signed: Chopard Genève Dupuis 1860
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The movement is in working condition. The case shows signs of wear, and the case back has surface wear. Otherwise, the watch is in very good overall condition.
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Le petit fils de L.-U. Chopard & Cie S.A., commonly known as Chopard, is a Swiss manufacturer and retailer of luxury watches, jewellery, and accessories. Founded in 1860 by Louis-Ulysse Chopard in Sonvilier, Switzerland, Chopard is best known for its high quality Swiss watches and jewellery. Its clientele included Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. The company is headquartered in Geneva and has a branch in Fleurier in the Canton of Neuchâtel that manufactures watch movements.
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The company founder, Louis-Ulysse Chopard, was a Swiss watchmaker who grew up in Sonvilier, a town in the Swiss Jura. In 1860, he established his company in Sonvilier, having observed that it was more profitable to market the finished watch than just making the mechanical movement.
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After Louis-Ulysse died in 1915, his son Paul-Louis and grandson Paul-André took over the company. The company specialises in making pocket watches and ladies’ wristwatches. In 1921, Paul-Louis moved the company operations to La Chaux-de-Fonds. In 1937, with 150 employees, it relocated to Geneva. This enabled the company’s movements to be certified with the Geneva seal, a mark applied only to watch movements made in the Canton of Geneva. Paul-André took over the company in 1943.
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In 1963, having no children wishing to continue in the business, Paul-André Chopard sold it to Karl Scheufele III, a German goldsmith and watchmaker from Pforzheim, seeking a watch movement manufacturer exclusively for his own business.
Signed: Chopard Genève Dupuis 1860
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