Kong's comprehensive report captures the excitement of Chopard's 2010 L.U.C PuristSPro event in Singapore, celebrating the brand's 150th Anniversary with new novelties. This article provides a historical snapshot of Chopard's key releases and community engagement, offering insights into collector preferences and initial impressions of significant models like the L.U.C Louis-Ulysse – The Tribute and L.U.C Engine One Tourbillon.
19 May 2010, a strong audience of 40 pax of PuristS attended the yearly Chopard PuristSPro event to preview the 2010 L.U.C Novelties which are also specially created to celebrate Chopard's 150th Anniversary, at the Chopard Singapore Flagship store located in Ngee Ann City.
The four pieces with new calibres featured were : L.U.C Louis-Ulysse – The Tribute, L.U.C 150 "All in One", L.U.C 1937 and L.U.C Engine One Tourbillon.
This evening, we also tried to answer if the L.U.C - The Tribute at 49.60mm diameter could be comfortably worn, and an experiment was carried with three volunteers.
6:30pm, some of our guests had arrived ...
The early birds, catching up among themselves and some requested to see & touch the 2010 Novelty pieces ...
Our PuristSPro CEO, MTF, chatting with our watch enthusiats ...
Mr Patrick Normand, Managing Director of Chopard Asia, mingling with the guests ...
The guys were admiring the L.U.C 1937 and the L.U.C Engine One Tourbillon ...
And there's also something for the lady ...the Happy Sports.
The Boutique Staff helped to make or guests comfortable, answering enquiries and non-stop bringing out various L.U.C collections
for the guests to view and try ...
Canapes and Champagne were served ...
Love one of our lady friend's expression !
Technical discussion between this two gentlemen...
Mr Patrick Normand, busy ensuring guests were comfortable too ...
At about 7:30pm ... Mr Patrick Normand greeted the audience ....
A brief introduction about himself and his work experience in the luxury and watch industry ...
Next he presented more details of the 2010 L.U.C Novelties ...
The fully packed inner-hall of us were all ears to the details presented ....
Running through the slides ...
Explaining the story behind the L.U.C EHG Pocket Watch movement, a proprietary movement developed by Chopard for the students at the Geneva Watchmaking School to assist them in creating their 'school piece' ( the final year project), affirming Chopard's support for training and to the apprentice watchmakers, and paying tribute to the city of Geneva that has welcomed Chopard since 1937.
Mr Patrick Normand ended his presentation and asked the guests to approach him or his team if have any questions ...
One of the L.U.C owners, asking Patrick some questions about the new collection ...
Enquiring about the coming special 150th Anniversary Happy Sport ...
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Hands on with the L.U.C Engine One Tourbillon ...
Admiring the Tribute ... feeling the heft ...
Some of our friends in the forum had asked if the L.U.C - The Tribute is wearable with a strong diameter of 49.6 mm ....
A live experiment with some wrists now ....
Subject " Mr S " - About 160mm (6.3 inches) wrist ...
Not to bad actually ... hopefully he would pen in his observations...
An avid pocketwatch owner trying out too ...
A beautiful XP (under his cuff ) ... releasing the safety strap to remove The Tribute from the cradle ...
A pic of two pocketwatches ...
Next ...
taking a seat ...
is our Subject "Mr B ", preparing to try, removing his L.U.C Tech Twist ...
As his wife said, a pensive pose, reflecting on the experience ...
It looked actually very good on his wrist!
And his vital statistic, 170mm (6.7 inches).
The magic of The Tribute ...
She stunned every of us ... the Tribute wore pretty nice on her !
The Tribute and her L.U.C 1860-1...
And "Ms J's ' wrist-size is 165mm (6.5 inches), the median of the three volunteers
Another L.U.C Owner, who declined to review his 'P' wrist size
...
Putting on the new L.U.C 1937 ...
On Mr S ....
Next several wrist-shots of the L.U.C "All in One" ...
Alternative view ....
Three brains figuring out all the functions of the "All in One" ...
A couple of wristshots of the "All in One" on a lady - Ms J ...
The fun and wonderful evening came to a close at 9:30pm.
Thanks to Chopard Asia Team for hosting us.
Kong
PS : For more real pictures of the 2010 L.U.C Novelties, please click here .
This message has been edited by Kong on 2010-05-24 11:26:38 This message has been edited by MTF on 2010-06-02 04:38:23
