L’Heure du Diamant

A sparkling showcase for Chopard’s watch and jewellery skills

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Current trends captured through ancestral watchmaking and jewellery expertise: when all the codes of aesthetic excellence converge, perfection gives way to pure emotion. It is in this spirit that the L'Heure du Diamant collection sums up the wealth of artistic crafts cultivated within Chopard, by artisans ranging from master watchmakers to gemsetters. The collection is reinvented in a series of cushion-shaped watches, fashioned from ethical 18-carat white or rose gold, graced with a precious rose gold, lapis lazuli or malachite dial and rimmed with diamonds. These creations feature the emblematic tree bark-textured gold bracelet sculpted using a proprietary technique and beat to the rhythm of the Chopard 09.01-C automatic movement. They bear within them the genius of skills patiently nurtured through the years by Chopard's Artisans of Emotion.

A natural-born classic
With L'Heure du Diamant, all the elements contributing to the virtuoso construction of an artwork – encompassing artistic, technical, symbolic, artisanal and heritage dimensions – converge to perfection. Chopard once again demonstrates this wide-ranging prowess through a jewellery watch featuring modern lines and proportions testifying to the extraordinary vitality of its workshops. The cushion-shaped case with its curved sides endows this new creation with an undeniable sense of grandeur which combines with the unique bark-textured strap to revive the inimitable spirit of 1960s glamour, while embedding it firmly in contemporary aesthetic codes.

Luminous gemsetting
The absolute purity of the diamond is majestically highlighted by the collection’s emblematic crown setting technique, which exalts the beauty of each of the gems by allowing the light to shine through. This ribbon of diamonds encircling the case lights up a delicate dial crafted in sunburst rose gold set with 12 diamond hour-markers, or in blue lapis lazuli or mottled green malachite. Initiated by Chopard in the 1960s, the use of these hard stones provides an extraordinarily vivid mineral echo of the diamond mantle adorning the watch.

A sculpted gold bracelet
The light also plays brilliantly across the tree bark-style bracelet featuring a textured, silky touch and impeccable comfort stemming from unique expertise. Reflecting the plant world, its extremely fine veins lend undeniable vibrancy to the bracelet, thanks to a close-knit weave giving an incomparably supple feeling of lightness to the ethical 18-carat gold interpreted in white on the lapis lazuli version, rose on the versions with malachite and rose gold dials. It follows the curve of the wrist without ever snagging on the fabric of the wearer’s sleeve. This entirely hand-crafted goldwork technique was developed by the Scheufele family in the 1960s. The result of ancestral watchmaking and jewellery skills, it epitomises the pinnacle of mental and manual brilliance displayed in this jewellery watch, of which all three versions are also available with a leather strap in a colour matching the dial.

Watchmaking and jewellery heritage
Powered by the automatic Chopard 09.01-C mechanical movement and a 42-hour power reserve entirely produced by Chopard's watchmakers, this watch testifies to the complementary skills nurtured by the Maison. Jewellery watches are a decades-long speciality of the Scheufele family currently at the helm of Chopard. An ideal blend of beauty and precision, L'Heure du Diamant collection reaps the benefits of this technical virtuosity dedicated to impressive artistic modernity. From designer to watchmaker, from jeweller to gemsetter, and from polisher to watchmaker, these creations are brought to life by the wide-ranging talents of the Maison’s in-house artisans.