Swiss platinum open faced keyless pocket watch Circa 2010
- Kenmerk
- AS2243
- Diameter
- 47 mm
- Estimate
- € 2.500 - 5.000
- Price sold
- € 3.250
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A Swiss open faced, keyless, platinum pocket watch, circa 2010. This watch is equipped with a jewelled lever movement. It has a silvered dial featuring an engine turned centre with Roman numerals for the hours, an outer minutes track with Arabic numerals for the five minute intervals, a subsidiary dial for the seconds, and blued steel hands. The polished platinum case has a snap on back. The case, dial, and movement are all signed. Additionally, it comes with a Chopard Certificate of Origin.
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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, but the case shows signs of wear. The case back has visible surface wear.
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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.–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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