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    • Designed as an 18K gold bombé heart-shaped pendant, inscribed with 'LOVE' set with circular-cut diamonds, enhanced by a glazed compartment containing a free floating circular-cut diamond collet, to the belcher link neckchain, mounted in 18K yellow gold, chain length 60 cm; pendant length 3.5 cm.    

    • Signed 'Chopard' and numbered.  With Swiss assay marks

  • Artist Biography

    Chopard

    Swiss • 1860

    At the age of 24, Louis-Ulysse Chopard started his company L.U.C. Chopard in Sonviller, Switzerland. Since the brand's inception in 1860, Chopard understood the need for thin and accurate pocket watches to be functional for daily wear. The brand gained world recognition in 1912 after Tsar Nicolas II became a client.

    Following Louis-Ulysse's death in 1915, his sons Paul-Louis and Paul André took over the business and moved their headquarters to La Chaux-de-Fonds. In 1963, the company was taken over by Karl Scheufele, who remains the brand's owner. Arguably Chopard's most recognizable design, the "Happy" line, was inspired by Scheufele's daughter Caroline. In 1996, his son Karl-Friedrich established Chopard as a manufacturer of its own range of in-house movements under the name L.U.C., creating groundbreaking, exquisitely finished watches that have earned the brand worldwide acclaim.

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A Diamond and Gold Pendant

Designed as an 18K gold bombé heart-shaped pendant, inscribed with 'LOVE' set with circular-cut diamonds, enhanced by a glazed compartment containing a free floating circular-cut diamond collet, to the belcher link neckchain, mounted in 18K yellow gold, chain length 60 cm; pendant length 3.5 cm.    
Signed 'Chopard' and numbered.  With Swiss assay marks

Estimate
CHF7,000 - 9,000 

Magnificent Jewels

13 May 2008, 2 & 7pm
Geneva