Chopard - Magnificent Jewels Geneva Monday, November 17, 2008 | Phillips

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    • Designed as a bombé polished gold heart, with circular-cut diamond accents, centering upon twelve free-floating collet diamonds, suspended from a gold rope chain, mounted in 18K yellow gold, length 80 cm.

    • Signed 'Chopard', 79/2206-20 9229754, with French 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 'Happy Diamond' Heart Pendant

Designed as a bombé polished gold heart, with circular-cut diamond accents, centering upon twelve free-floating collet diamonds, suspended from a gold rope chain, mounted in 18K yellow gold, length 80 cm.
Signed 'Chopard', 79/2206-20 9229754, with French assay marks

Estimate
CHF2,500 - 3,500 

Sold for CHF3,500

Magnificent Jewels

18 Nov 2008, 4pm
Geneva