2013/07/15
Chopard the Happy Sport medium Automatic Collection
The Chopard icon celebrates its 20th anniversary
with a mechanical movement
For 20 years, the Happy Sport watches by Chopard have been appealing to devotees of contemporary, daring, and subtly unconventional timepieces. To mark this jubilee year, the iconic collection welcomes a mechanical interpretation in the shape of the new Happy Sport Medium Automatic.
It was in 1993 that Caroline Scheufele created one of the Chopard icons, the Happy Sport watch. Repeatedly interpreted over the years in occasionally humorous and consistently elegant ways, it has lived under various highly evocative identities: Happy Beach, La Vie en Rose, Happy Spirit, Mystery Pink…
Now, in celebrating the finest anniversary of its diamonds moving freely just a few millimetres above exquisite watch dials, Chopard unveils the new Happy Sport Medium Automatic. The famous moving diamonds – one of the most fascinating jewellery innovations in recent decades – adds an unprecedented mechanical dimension to their entrancing natural charm.
Moving diamonds meet a mechanical movement
Elegant, sophisticated and entirely loyal to the spirit of the original Happy Sport, the new Happy Sport Medium Automatic reveals a guilloché silver-toned dial, a tribute to the decorative traditions of classical watchmaking and a perfect backdrop against which to highlight the seven moving diamonds. On the back, a sapphire crystal provides a chance to admire its mechanical self-winding movement adorned with a straight Côtes de Genève motif also known as Geneva stripes. Its 36 mm-diameter steel or 18ct rose gold case is water-resistant to 30 metres and fitted with an alligator leather strap or an 18ct rose gold bracelet.
Ref. :
- 278559-3001 – In stainless steel
- 278559-3003 – In stainless steel with diamond-set bezel
- 274808-5003 – In 18ct rose gold with diamond-set bezel
- 274808-5002 – In 18ct rose gold with In 18ct rose gold bracelet
- 274891-5001 – In 18ct rose gold fully set with diamonds
Case:
- Stainless steel or 18ct rose gold
- Total diameter: 36.00 mm
- Thickness: 12.08 mm
- Water resistance: 30 m
- Steel or 18ct rose gold crown set with a blue sapphire: 6.00 mm
- Seven moving diamonds
- Glareproofed sapphire crystal
- Exhibition back
Movement:
- Mechanical self-winding movement
- Diameter: 26.20 mm
- Thickness: 3.60 mm
- Number of jewels: 25
- Frequency: 28,800 vph (4Hz)
- Power reserve: 42 hours
Dial and hands:
- Guilloché silver-toned or fully set with diamonds dial
- Rhodiumed or gold-toned hour, minute and seconds hands
- Rhodiumed or gold-toned hour-markers
Functions and displays:
- Central display of the hour, minute and seconds
- Date at 4.30 (except for the fully set version)
Strap and buckle:
- Alligator leather strap
- Stainless steel or 18ct rose gold pin buckle
