Chopard is Building On Its Twin Legacies

In 1996, just as the mechanical watchmaking renaissance was getting underway, Chopard, one of the oldest and most respected brands in luxury watchmaking, opened a manufacture In the Swiss village of Fleurier, in a region known as Val-de-Travers, or Twisted Valley, in the Jura Mountains.

The workshop’s focus was on building movements for a line of Chopard watches known as L.U.C, after the company’s founder, Louis-Ulysse Chopard. Designed to stand the test of time and,…