Watches and Wonders 2025: Chopard New Releases

Pure aesthetics

Although the Alpine Eagle collection has offered bicolour timepieces in Lucent Steel™ and rose gold since its launch in 2019, for the first time, this new 33-millimetre model now appears paired with yellow gold. This combination is carefully balanced, since the caseband and bracelet links are crafted from Chopard’s luminous, ultra-resistant steel made with a recycling rate of at least 80%, while the bezel, crown and central bracelet cap are in ethical 18-carat yellow gold. The embossed dial continues this aesthetic association of colour nuances in ‘Vals Grey’ – chosen to evoke the silvery reflections of the quartzite slabs covering the roofs and walls of old alpine houses. This is punctuated by gilded hands and hour-markers at 3, 6, 9 and 12 o’clock. This sparkling dial is further enhanced by the diamond-set bezel and hour-markers.

For the first time, Chopard is enriching its Alpine Eagle sports watch collection with an exceptional platinum version featuring the balanced proportions of the ultra-thin ‘41 XP’ case paired with a reshaped bracelet. Crafted in this incomparably pure metal, the new model becomes the precious setting for a dial adorned with a ‘Shades of Ice’ blue gradient, inspired by the nuances of Alpine glaciers, unfortunately disappearing due to global warming. This exceptional timepiece offering a central seconds display (as the ‘CS’ in its name indicates) bears the Poinçon de Genève quality hallmark and is powered by the ultra-thin, chronometer-certified L.U.C 96.42-L movement equipped with a platinum micro-rotor.  Water-resistant to 100 m, this is a sports watch with a blend of strength and stamina.

Platinum is a metal that is both incomparably desirable and fascinatingly rare – 30 times more so than gold. Its peerless purity is equally alluring, expressed through the legal fineness hallmarks 850, 900 and 950, indicating the parts out of 1000 and hence the percentage of platinum in each alloy. This makes it the purest metal used in watchmaking and jewellery. Between 40% and 60% denser than gold, it is highly resistant to corrosion and abrasion, giving it exceptional durability that can be passed down through generations. Its extraordinary qualities nonetheless require special skills and the use of specific tools to machine it, while its ductility makes it ideal for producing small objects with complex technical shapes – hence its use in medicine and advanced engineering. Finally, the fact that it is totally hypoallergenic metal and renowned for its unalterable lustre means it is entirely suited to everyday wear.

A jewel that tells the time: the dual nature of Chopard's expertise

Combining watchmaking expertise with Haute Joaillerie excellence, dainty diamond-set watches lie at the heart of the history and identity of the Scheufele family, who have served as guardians of Chopard’s development for generations. The L’Heure du Diamant collection epitomises this duality, masterfully mingling contemporary vision and vintage allure; hard materials and soft shapes; exquisite aesthetics and precision.

At the crossroads of these skills, L’Heure du Diamant is a collection inspired by jewellery timepieces fashioned by the creative freedom infusing Chopard’s workshops during the 1960s and 1970s. Today, these timepieces have become veritable collector items, coveted by only the most stylish. Combined with colourful ornamental stone dials, these watchmaking jewels are the result of over a century of technical and aesthetic supremacy, as Caroline and Karl-Friedrich Scheufele’s grandfather was already dubbed the ‘Master of the jewel-watch’ in the early 20^th century. This historical heritage was acknowledged in 2013, when the Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève awarded its “Jewellery Watch Prize” to a L’Heure du Diamant timepiece in rose gold entirely paved with diamonds.

Imbued with harmony and symmetry, L’Heure du Diamant models come in a variety of round, oval, cushion, octagonal or heart-shaped cases, making the collection a veritable beacon of creativity. In 2025, Chopard has chosen the treasures of its L’Heure du Diamant collection to adorn its Maison Ambassador Bella Hadid in a new campaign, widely acclaimed across watch, jewellery and fashion circles.

Hailed as watchmaking’s most poetic complication, the moon phase stars in a new L’Heure du Diamant timepiece, following the lunar cycle through the sparkling nuances of aventurine glass and the fire of diamonds magnified by the crown-setting technique. The sophistication of this creation combining Chopard‘s dual expertise in watchmaking and jewellery continues with the new Chopard 09.02-C self-winding movement.

For the first time in its history, L’Heure du Diamant collection has a complication at the heart of one of its timepieces.  Measuring just 20.40 mm by 4.60 mm, the 169 components composing the new self-winding Chopard Calibre 09.02-C enable it to fit neatly into a small ladies’ watch case. An aventurine disc serves to display the moon’s trajectory with remarkable precision. Calibrated by the Manufacture’s finest watchmaking artisans, this display is endowed with astronomical precision: with a time difference of just 57.2 seconds between two lunar cycles, it will take 122 years for it to show a one-day discrepancy with the path of the actual moon. Only then will it need to be adjusted.